<p>If and when he is convicted and sentenced to either life or the death penalty, he will likely spend that time in SuperMax prison in Florence, Colorado. There he will spend 23 hours a day in near total isolation in solitary confinement…That will be much worse than Gitmo…</p>
<p>The father would probably need a VISA to come to the US, right? Yes, it is great that the homeowner wasn’t shot. Thank goodness! It is strange they didn’t shoot the carjack victim either. I don’t understand all that happened and didn’t happen with the two young men. It’s very confusing.</p>
<p>I imagine that noticing 3 people in the car wasn’t too difficult, Himom. The homeowner did something dangerous for sure but he probably didn’t want to call if there was no need so he checked it out. I would not.</p>
<p>Huh? It is confusing to me why the carjack victim wasn’t shot nor the homeowner. I think he was brave–I would have called 911 without bothering to touch the tarp. He knew there wasn’t blood on his boat/tarp before. The two men were fine with shooting at law enforcement and having explosives that endangered everyone but didn’t shoot when they had the opportunity to get the carjack victim, 7-11 and homeowner.</p>
<p>The bomber may have been sleeping or tired. I imagine that he was up during the day Thursday looking for a way out of Boston, and then they shot the MIT Police Officer, took off in the car, had the firefight, got wounded and looked for a place to hole up. That would be a lot of time without food and water (my assumption), a bullet wound, and probably not a lot of strong rest.</p>
<p>According to their old neighbor, the parents were lawyers in Russia and came here as political refugees after the Chechen war and the continuing strife between ethnic Chechens and Russia. She said they saw America as a haven. She said the father and mother split a few years ago and he moved back - I believe to Dagostan, which is next to Chechnya. She said the kids were nice and polite and she got along with the boys and their 2 sisters. She hasn’t seen them for a while and she believes something must have changed relatively recently. </p>
<p>The younger kid’s wrestling teammates at Rindge say he was a completely normal American kid. Same as described by the people who knew him at college.</p>
<p>NYMom, that guy looking under that tarp is the image I can’t get out of my head. He is incredibly lucky. I wonder whether the guy had passed out from loss of blood or something. The hole and blood on the tarp would have been enough for me to run in the house and call 911 without climbing up there.</p>
<p>They did not rob 7-11.</p>
<p>[Boston</a> bombing suspects did not rob 7-11 | wtsp.com](<a href=“http://www.wtsp.com/news/topstories/article/312193/250/Boston-bombing-suspects-did-not-rob-7-11]Boston”>http://www.wtsp.com/news/topstories/article/312193/250/Boston-bombing-suspects-did-not-rob-7-11)</p>
<p>I’m not sure there were only 2 people. They clearly had resources so there had to be some type of terrorist contact or a supplier.</p>
<p>He is in Beth Israel NOT Mass General. It sure is confusing with these different reports. Would NOT have done what the homeowner did. Brave guy!</p>
<p>Remember that at the time the police weren’t in the area. I assume the homeowner was able to peek in quietly. They guy fired at the police but if you see the footage Ch7 got, there are police cars all over the background so he would have been alerted.</p>
<p>The guy was already bleeding so he wasn’t in the best state of mind.</p>
<p>@Palier…that is what I am afraid of. Just saw the videos of residents parading and celebrating in the streets. I am happy he is in custody , but not ready to heave a sigh of relief.</p>
<p>Yes, the suspect was definitely running on adrenaline, as he was running from at least the night before and who knows what as going on all that day, but suspect he didn’t have much (or anything) to eat or drink. He was on the run, hidding and bleeding. I can imagine he wasn’t very rested, especially knowing that he was being hunted everywhere in the area.</p>
<p>Blessings for all the victims and all those affected by these horrendous events.</p>
<p>Hard to know whether there are others and if they are, I sure hope they are all rounded up, charged and convicted. Hard to believe it was only these two young men.</p>
<p>Driving back from Boston this evening - there are LCD billboards with pictures of the bomber and a note to call the FBI (with phone number) if you see him. This was on Route 93 N out of Boston.</p>
<p>Those likely won’t be taken down until updated.</p>
<p>I agree, Palier. Doesn’t seem like these two had the resources to do this on their own. I would be okay with waiving the death penalty for valuable info on any others, but I’m not sure the parents of that murdered little boy would agree.</p>
<p>The death penalty is to make a statement, but proper punishment comes from growing old in prison and going insane. After all, our prisons don’t help people they just store them away for the most part, and at the worst part usually ruin things for the few innocents who do mistakenly get sentenced. In those cases, we hate it. In this case, it’s time to let our terrible prison system do its job.</p>
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<p>Of course, you have no idea how they feel about the death penalty in the first place. There are certainly families of murder victims who don’t want the culprits executed.</p>
<p>On the contrary, it sounds like they didn’t have any resources to escape. No safe house. No bank account to fund an escape to another country. Judging from the extra pressure cooker bomb they chucked at the police the night of the shootout, and all the pipe bombs in the apt., they were planning to hit more targets. How did they think they would get away with it? Dumb criminals.</p>