FBI Releases New High Quality Image Of Boston Marathon Bomber Suspect In All Out Effort For Capture
By RAMESH RHAMJAMI
Published April 18, 2013
BOSTON — In an effort to apprehend the primary suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, the FBI released a new image of the individual obtained early Thursday morning from a spectator's cell phone camera. Authorities say that the increased clarity of the image makes its publication worth the risk that the suspect will take measures to avoid capture.
The discovery of the new image — which bolsters the suspicions raised by surveillance footage from a department store near the finish line — emerged three days after the attack that left three people dead, wounded more than 170, and cast a dark shadow over one of this city’s most joyous traditions.
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said he shared the frustration that the person or people responsible were still at large, but he said solving the case will not “happen by sitting around reading People Magazine.”
“It’s going to happen by doing the careful work that must be done in a thorough investigation,” Patrick said. “That means going through the couple of blocks at the blast scene square inch by square inch.”
President Barack Obama is planning to attend a service honoring the victims Thursday in Boston, and said in a statement that federal authorities “would not rest” until the suspect is captured. The president added that the suspect that killed Ambassador Stephens in Libya will be apprehended as well.
FBI profiler Bernard F. Hoeff said that he believes that the suspect appears to be in distress in the new image. “Either the ploy did not work as expected or this is a young man in over his head,” said Hoeff.
The bombs were crudely fashioned from ordinary kitchen pressure cookers packed with explosives, nails and ball bearings, investigators and others close to the case said. Investigators suspect the devices were then hidden in black duffel bags and left on the ground.
