Dzhokhar Tsarnaev indicted in Boston Marathon bombing

A grand jury has indicted Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the Boston Marathon bombing. He faces 30 charges, including murder and using weapons of mass destruction in an attack that killed three spectators and injured hundreds more.

By Brad Knickerbocker,?Staff writer / June 27, 2013

US Attorney Carmen Ortiz speaks during a news conference to announce a 30-count indictment against Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Thursday, June 27, 2013, in Boston.

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Alleged Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been formally indicted on charges including murder and using weapons of mass destruction in the attack that killed three spectators and injured more than 260 others in twin explosions near the famed race?s finish line on April 15.

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The 30-count indictment by a federal grand jury, announced Thursday by federal, state, and country officials, also includes a charge of murder in the shooting death of Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier. Seventeen of the 30 charges against Tsarnaev could bring the death penalty or life in prison.

The bombings, involving backpacks carrying pressure cookers filled with explosives and shrapnel set to detonate seconds apart, allegedly were planned and carried out by Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

Tamerlan died after a shootout with police four days after the bombing. The next evening, Dzhokhar was found wounded and hiding out in a covered sailboat parked behind a house in nearby Watertown, Mass.

Among the evidence prosecutors provided Thursday was the note Dzhokhar wrote on the inside of the boat, which hinted at the two brothers? motivation:

?I don?t like killing innocent people.... The U.S. Government is killing our innocent civilians?. I can't stand to see such evil go unpunished?. We Muslims are one body, you hurt one you hurt us all.... Stop killing our innocent people, we will stop.?

The two ethnically Chechen brothers immigrated to the United States with their family as refugees from the North Caucasus region of Russia about 10 years ago.

At some point, older brother Tamerlan gravitated toward radical Islam. In 2012, he went to Russia for six months, spending most of the time in the North Caucasus.

According to the 74-page indictment, the brothers obtained eight pounds of explosives from 48 mortars they purchased from a fireworks store in New Hampshire; over the Internet, they ordered electronic devices to detonate the bombs; while they were planning their attack, they practiced firing 9mm pistols at a firing range.

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