Shortly after midnight of April 18 – 19 , 2013 , the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing engaged in a protracted battle with police , in Watertown involving the use of firearms and explosives . Tamerlan Tsarnaev was critically wounded and later pronounced dead and the town was completely locked down for hours as police , FBI , and Army National Guard personnel patrolled it , looking for the remaining suspect , Dzhokhar Tsarnaev , who was captured wounded but alive in a boat shortly after the lockdown ended on the following evening
Boston Marathon bombing
Boston Marathon bombing
Watertown, Massachusetts