Report: 15 officers injured in overnight search for Boston suspects
Apr 19, 2013, 6:03 PM
Fifteen police officers were reportedly taken to the hospital after being injured during an overnight search for the Boston Marathon suspects.
#Breaking: 15 police officers were taken to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Brighton, MAfor injuries sustained in last night’s police activity
— ABC News (@ABC) April 19, 2013
Specific details on the injuries were not available.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was killed overnight. The older Tsarnaev had been dubbed Suspect No. 1 by the FBI. In surveillance footage he is wearing a black baseball cap.
Police are still searching for Tsarnaev’s brother, 19-year-old Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev.
It is believed the suspects killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology officer and wounded an MBTA transit officer.
Three people were killed and 176 more were injured in the bombing.