A temporary memorial to police officer Sean Colier, close to the spot where he was killed by the Tsarnaev brothers'
A temporary memorial to police officer Sean Colier, close to the spot where he was killed by the Tsarnaev brothers'. During the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013, two pressure cooker bombs exploded at 2:49 pm EDT, killing 3 people and injuring an estimated 264 others. The bombs exploded about 13 seconds and 210 yards (190 m) apart, near the finish line on Boylston Street. The suspects allegedly shot Sean A. Collier of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Police Department multiple times, killing him for his gun which they could not get out because of the holster's retention system. Collier, aged 27, was seated in his police car near the Stata Center (Building 32), on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus. He was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital in nearby downtown Boston, where he was pronounced dead. Some law enforcement officials have described the killing as an assassination. The duo then allegedly carjacked a Mercedes-Benz SUV in the Allston-Brighton neighborhood of Boston, Tamerlan taking the owner hostage and telling him that he was responsible for the Boston bombings and for killing a police officer. Dzhokhar followed them in the green Honda, later joining them in the Mercedes-Benz. Later interrogation allegedly revealed that the brothers "decided spontaneously" to go to New York and planned to bomb Times Square. MIT police officer, Sean A. Collier was fatally shot three days after the bombing, and a Transit Police officer was seriously wounded.
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Location: 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Photo credit: © John Gaffen 2 / Alamy / Afripics
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