Residents who fled the area where Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev is believed to be in hiding were comforted. 
 
 WATERTOWN — Four days after two deadly explosions turned the finish line of the Boston Marathon into a scene of bloody chaos, the 19-year-old college student believed to be responsible for placing the bombs was taken into custody tonight, bringing a sense of relief and justice to a shaken region. 
 
 Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev of Cambridge was pulled from his hiding place in a boat parked behind a house on Franklin Street shortly before 8:45 p.m. in this community just outside Boston. 
 
 “We are eternally grateful for the outcome here tonight. We have a suspect in custody,” said Colonel Timothy Alben, commander of the State Police. “We’re so grateful to bring justice and closure to this case.” 
 
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 “It’s a night where I think we’re all going to rest easy,” Governor Deval Patrick said at a news conference in Watertown. 
 
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 With the second suspect in the case, Tsarnaev’s brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, fatally shot in a gun battle with police early this morning, Boston Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis said, citizens “can be confident that the threat has been removed.” 
 
 President Obama, speaking at the White House tonight, said, “We’ve closed an important chapter in this tragedy.” But he also said there were “still many unanswered questions” and said the FBI would thoroughly investigate. 
 
 Dzohkhar Tsarnaev, who exchanged gunfire with police from the boat, was rushed to a local hospital, where he was in serious condition, Davis said. 
 
 Police had approached him cautiously, worried that he might be wearing a suicide bomb vest. 
 
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 “We got him,” Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino tweeted immediately afterwards. He took to the police radio to thank officers personally, telling them, “Good job, guys!” 
 
 The apprehension of Tsarnaev was the latest stunning development in a day of mayhem that had shocked the city, even as it was still reeling from Monday’s Marathon attacks. An MIT police officer was killed, “assassinated,” Thursday night in Cambridge. Then a carjacking was reported. Officers pursued the car, which turned out to contain the two Tsarnaevs, who threw explosives at them. 
 
 The elder brother was shot by police early Friday in a gun battle in Watertown, in which fficials said they wielded improvised explosive devices and homemade grenades. Dzhokhan Tsarnaev was so desperate to escape he ran over his brother as he lay wounded. He later abandoned the car in Watertown and fled on foot, disappearing from sight. 
 
 Law enforcement mobilized, sending legions of heavily-armed police officers to search a 20-block area of the community. At the same time, Governor Deval Patrick took an unprecedented security step, asking people in Boston, Watertown, and several other nearby communities — totaling a million people — to “shelter in place” — stay at home behind locked doors and open up only to police officers with proper identification. 
 
 Government and business offices closed as police cars zoomed on mysterious errands on deserted streets. The Red Sox and Bruins games were canceled, as well as the Big Apple Circus. Amtrak was shut down from Boston to Providence, as well as the MBTA, the Boston area’s public transit system. The region came to a standstill. 
 
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 Then, at 6 p.m., officials held another news conference to say that despite the massive manhunt, they had come up empty. The suspect had slipped outside their perimeter. Officials said they remained determined to find him, however, and that they believed he was somewhere still in Massachusetts. Patrick dropped his request for people to shelter in place and ordered the MBTA to resume service. 
 
 The dramatic finale came less than an hour after the news conference was over. A resident of Watertown came out of his house and noticed blood on his boat and that the tarp covering it was ripped. He lifted the tarp and saw a bloody form. He called police, who raced to the scene and exchanged gunfire with Tsarnaev, said Davis, the Boston commissioner 
 
 Police surrounded the boat and there was a standoff for about an hour and a half. A State Police helicopter peeked at him from above, using a special infrared camera. Police deployed “flash bang” grenades to stun and distract him, Davis said. Police were cautious in their approach, concerned that Tsarnaev could be wearing a suicide bomb vest. 
 
 A Globe photographer at the scene could hear police calling, “We know you’re in there. Come out on your own terms. Come out with your hands up.” 
 
 An FBI hostage rescue team was eventually able to pull him out. 
 
 In yet another twist in the story, New Bedford police said this evening that three people had been taken into custody in their city as part of the bombing investigation. 
 
 New Bedford Police Lieutenant Robert Richard said his department assisted federal investigators in executing a search warrant at a home on Carriage Drive, about 10 minutes from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, where Tsarnaev was a student. 
 
 
 
 MIT Police Officer Sean Collier, 26, of Somerville, who was fatally shot while sitting in his cruiser near Main and Vassar streets in Cambridge, in what Davis called an “assassination,” was remembered as a brave and devoted officer. 
 
 MBTA Transit Police Officer Richard H. Donahue Jr., 33, who was shot as officers pursued the Tsarnaevs into Watertown, was in critical but stable condition at Mt. Auburn Hospital. 
 
 Scott Helman, Marcella Bombardieri, ­Brian MacQuarrie, Martine Powers, and Maria Sacchetti of the Globe staff and Globe correspondents Todd Feathers, Lauren Dezenski, Jeremy C. Fox, Haven Orecchio-Egresitz, Jaclyn Reiss, and Gal Tziperman Lotan contributed to this report. ||||| This collection is comprised of contributions from curators and subject matter experts; and includes news articles, blogs, social media sites, and organizational websites related to the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing and its aftereffects 
 
 Younger Brother Needed His Car ‘Right Now’ 
 
 Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were regular customers at Junior Auto Body in Somerville, just two blocks from the brothers’ family home, for about two years. The owner, Gilberto Junior, said they hung out with a group of young people who were “always beautifully dressed” and drove “beautiful cars” like Porsches and Land Rovers. 
 
 Mr. Junior said the brothers told him they were students. He said the younger brother — a nice kid — brought in a white Mercedes e-350 about two weeks ago with damage to the rear. He said it was his girlfriend’s car. 
 
 Around noon Tuesday, the younger brother came in saying he needed his car. He didn’t seem to be acting like his normal self, Mr. Junior said. “He was biting his nails and when he was talking to me his legs were like this,” he said, shaking one leg. Dzhokhar said he needed the car “right now,” Mr. Junior said. 
 
 Mr. Junior had taken the bumper and tail lights off the car but hadn’t fixed it yet – and told Dzhokar so. But he took the car the way it was, he said. 
 
 “I think he probably knew something was going to happen,” said Mr. Junior, who broke down crying outside his shop, saying if he had known he could have stopped the young men before the tragedy. But he said he never noticed anything odd in their conversations — never heard them talk about politics or religion or rant about anything. 
 
 – Jennifer Levitz ||||| Police say three people have been taken into custody for questioning at a housing complex where the younger Boston Marathon bombing suspect may have lived. 
 
 New Bedford Police Lt. Robert Richard says a private complex of off-campus housing at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth was searched by federal authorities Friday evening. 
 
 Richard says the FBI took two males and one female into custody for questioning. 
 
 He says 19-year-old suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev may have lived at or was affiliated with the housing complex. He is registered at the school. 
 
 Authorities say Tsarnaev was apprehended after a manhunt Friday that paralyzed the Boston area. ||||| A fund to help victims in the Boston Marathon bombings will be divided up first to families of those killed, then by the severity of injuries, but no one should expect to have 100 percent of their expenses covered.The administrator is speaking with victim's families from 10am - noon today. Read more about the payout formula. ||||| Story highlights 58 people remain hospitalized from Monday's bombings, according to a CNN tally 
 
 "CAPTURED!!! The hunt is over" police tweet after second suspect is in custody 
 
 Investigators find ''significant amount of homemade explosives,'' a police official says 
 
 Slain suspect was wearing explosives when he died, source tells CNN 
 
 The second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings was taken into custody Friday night, bringing to an end a massive manhunt in the tense Massachusetts capital worried by warnings the man was possibly armed with explosives. 
 
 After announcing the arrest on Twitter, Boston police tweeted: "CAPTURED!!! The hunt is over. The search is done. The terror is over. And justice has won. Suspect in custody." 
 
 Authorities confirmed the man in custody is 19-year-old Dzhokar Tsarnaev, who escaped an overnight shootout with police that left his older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev -- the other man wanted in the bombings -- dead. 
 
 The younger Tsarnaev was in serious condition, Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis said at a news conference. He was being treated at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, hospital spokeswoman Kelly Lawman said. 
 
 Tsarnaev was cornered late Friday as he was hiding on a boat in a backyard of Watertown, a suburb of Boston. 
 
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 Police were alerted to his whereabouts by a man who went outside after authorities lifted an order for residents to stay inside during the manhunt. The resident saw blood on a boat in the backyard, Davis said. He then lifted up the tarp covering the boat and "saw a man covered with blood," he said. 
 
 It was that call that resulted in an arrest less than a week after two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, shocking the nation and leaving a city on edge. 
 
 "There was an exchange of gunfire, and I don't know if he was struck," Davis said of the suspect. 
 
 Authorities, using a bullhorn, had called on the suspect to surrender: "Come out with your hands up." 
 
 Tsarnaev, according to authorities, refused to surrender. 
 
 "We used a robot to pull the tarp off the boat," David Procopio of the Massachusetts State Police said. "We were also watching him with a thermal imaging camera in our helicopter. He was weakened by blood loss -- injured last night most likely," 
 
 Tsarnaev was taken into custody after authorities rushed the boat, Davis said. 
 
 Closing a chapter 
 
 The standoff and subsequent arrest came just minutes after authorities indicated during a news conference that a manhunt for the suspect appeared to come up empty. 
 
 Authorities had cast a wide net for the suspect, virtually shutting down Boston and its surroundings after a violent night in which authorities say the brothers allegedly hurled explosives at pursuers, after killing Massachusetts Institute of Technology police Officer Sean Collier and hijacking a car. 
 
 "We've closed an important chapter in this tragedy," President Barack Obama said in a televised address. Even so, he vowed to seek answers to the motive in the attack and find out whether the suspects received any help to carry out their plot. 
 
 The government is invoking the public safety exception to question Tsarnaev, meaning in cases of national security a person can be questioned without being read their Miranda rights, a Justice Department official told CNN on condition of anonymity. The official is not authorized to publicly discuss the matter. 
 
 U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz told reporters the "government has that opportunity right now" to invoke the public safety exemption but stopped short of declaring it would take that step, saying only the suspect was in the hospital. 
 
 Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham called for Tsarnaev to be held as an enemy combatant. 
 
 'Glad it's over' 
 
 Word of the arrest spread quickly in suburban Watertown, where residents took to the streets to cheer the news that suspect had been arrested. 
 
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 "Thank you. Thank you. It was our pleasure," members of the Boston SWAT team said over a loudspeaker. 
 
 Mary Sullivan was walking her black Labrador earlier Friday night when gunshots rang out in her neighborhood. 
 
 "I'm glad it's over," she said. "The city and the people have gone through so much pain over these irrational decisions of these young men." 
 
 Bombing connection 
 
 The manhunt began late Thursday just hours after the FBI released photos of the two suspects in the marathon bombings. 
 
 "Investigators are recovering a significant amount of homemade explosives" from the scene of the shootout, Procopio told CNN. 
 
 It was not immediately clear what explosives were recovered, but the discovery followed a tense night in which authorities say the brothers allegedly hurled a homemade grenade and five pipe bombs at pursuers after killing an officer and hijacking a car. 
 
 Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was wearing explosives and a triggering device when he died, a source briefed on the investigation told CNN on condition of anonymity. 
 
 The manhunt brought Boston to a near standstill. The Boston Red Sox announced they were postponing Friday night's game against the Kansas City Royals "to support efforts of law enforcement officers." NHL's Boston Bruins also postponed its game against the Pittsburgh Penguins. 
 
 The city's subway, bus, Amtrak train and Greyhound and regional Bolt Bus services were shut down. Taxi service across the city also was suspended for a time during the manhunt. Every Boston area school was closed. 
 
 Boston's public transit authority sent city buses to Watertown to evacuate residents while bomb experts combed the surroundings for possible explosives. 
 
 Initially, authorities said the brothers started their rampage by robbing a convenience store. By late Friday, the Middlesex District Attorney's office backtracked on the allegation, saying an investigation determined that the robbery at a 7-Eleven was unrelated. 
 
 Officer killed 
 
 The violent hours leading up to the capture began in Cambridge, across the Charles River from Boston, MIT officer Collier was shot and killed while he sat in his car on Thursday night, the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office said in a statement. 
 
 The two suspects, according to authorities, then hijacked a vehicle at gunpoint in Cambridge, telling the driver that they were the marathon bombers, a law enforcement source told CNN. 
 
 At some point, apparently at a gas station, that source said, the driver escaped. 
 
 Police, who were tracking the vehicle using its built-in GPS system, picked up the chase in Watertown. The pursuit went into a residential neighborhood, with the suspects throwing explosives at police. 
 
 A shootout erupted and ultimately one bomber -- later identified as Tamerlan Tsarnaev -- got out of the car. Police shot him, and his brother ran over him as he drove away, according to the law enforcement source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. 
 
 Richard H. Donohue Jr., 33, a three-year veteran of the transit system police force, was shot and wounded in the incident and taken to a hospital, a transit police spokesman said Friday. The officer's condition was not immediately known. 
 
 Another 15 police officers were treated for minor injuries sustained during the explosions and shootout, Jennifer Kovalich, a spokeswoman for St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, said. 
 
 Suspects background 
 
 Police believe the brothers are the same men pictured in images released Thursday by the FBI as suspects in the marathon bombing that killed three people and wounded dozens on Monday. 
 
 At least 58 people remained hospitalized, including three in critical condition, according to a CNN count. 
 
 The men are shown in the images walking together near the marathon finish line. 
 
 The first suspect -- apparently Tamerlan Tsarnaev, according to authorities -- appears in the images wearing a dark hat, sunglasses and a backpack. The second suspect, wearing a white cap, police said, is the one who remained at large throughout Friday until he was taken into custody Friday night. 
 
 But the mother of the Tsarnaev brothers refused to believe they were involved in the marathon bombings and subsequent shootout. 
 
 "It's impossible for them to do such things. I am really telling you that this is a setup," Zubeidat Tsarnaeva told state-run Russia Today from Dagestan. 
 
 "My son would never keep it in secret. ...If there is anyone who would know it would be me. He wouldn't hide it. But there was never a word." 
 
 The brothers came from the Russian Caucasus region and moved to Kazakhstan at a young age before coming to the United States several years ago. 
 
 "My youngest was raised from 8 years in America. My oldest was really properly raised in our house. Nobody talked about terrorism," their mother said. 
 
 The suspects' parents recently returned to Dagestan in the Caucasus region after living in the United States for about 10 years because they were "nostalgic," the father, Anzor Tsarnaev, told Russian state-run Zvezda TV. 
 
 He accused someone of framing his sons. "I don't know who exactly did it. But someone did." 
 
 A federal official told CNN that Dzhokar Tsarnaev came to the U.S. as a tourist with his family in the early 2000s and later asked for asylum. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2012. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was not a naturalized citizen, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. He came "a few years later" and was lawfully in the United States as a green-card holder. 
 
 Tamerlan Tsarnaev had studied at Bunker Hill Community College and wanted to become an engineer, according to those who knew him. He then took a year off to train as a boxer. 
 
 'I don't understand them' 
 
 The official said that a posting on a social media site in the elder brother's name included the comments: "I don't have a single American friend. I don't understand them." 
 
 Dzhokar Tsarnaev attended Cambridge Rindge & Latin, a public high school, said Eric Mercado, who graduated a year behind the suspect. Mercado said Tsarnaev had worked at Harvard University as a lifeguard. 
 
 "We hung out; we partied; we were good high school friends," Mercado told CNN. 
 
 "We're all, like, in shock. We don't really understand. There were no telltale signs of any kind of malicious behavior from Dzhokar. It's all coming as a shock, really." 
 
 Mercado said he lived a block away from the suspect and did not know his older brother. 
 
 Dzhokar Tsarnaev is currently registered as a student at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, which ordered its campus evacuated on Friday. The school is located 65 miles south of Cambridge, just west of New Bedford. 
 
 Larry Aaronson, Dzhokar Tsarnaev's neighbor and a former teacher at the high school Tsarnaev attended, called him a "wonderful kid." 
 
 "He was so grateful to be here, he was compassionate, he was caring, he was jovial," Aaronson told CNN. ||||| Police say the 19-year-old suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings exchanged gunfire with law enforcement for an hour while holed up in a boat before being captured. 
 
 A police officer stands guard at the scene as the search for suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings continues , Friday, April 19, 2013, in Watertown, Mass. Gunfire erupted Friday night amid the manhunt... (Associated Press) 
 
 A neighbor is escorted to safety as police surround a home while searching for a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings in Watertown, Mass., Friday, April 19, 2013. The two suspects in the Boston Marathon... (Associated Press) 
 
 This undated photo provided by the Middlesex District Attorney's Office shows Massachusetts Institute of Technology Police Officer Sean Collier, 26, of Somerville, Mass., who was shot to death Thursday,... (Associated Press) 
 
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 Police officers guard the entrance to Franklin street where there is an active crime scene search for the suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, Friday, April 19, 2013, in Watertown, Mass. Gunfire erupted... (Associated Press) 
 
 Officers look on as the search for suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings continues, Friday, April 19, 2013, in Watertown, Mass. Gunfire erupted Friday night amid the manhunt for the surviving suspect... (Associated Press) 
 
 Law enforcement search for the suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, Friday, April 19, 2013, in Watertown, Mass. Gunfire erupted Friday night amid the manhunt for the surviving suspect in the Boston... (Associated Press) 
 
 This combo of photos released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation early Friday April 19, 2013, shows what the FBI is calling suspects number 1, left, and suspect number 2, right, walking through the... (Associated Press) 
 
 This photo released Friday, April 19, 2013 by the Federal Bureau of Investigation shows a suspect that officials identified as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, being sought by police in the Boston Marathon bombings... (Associated Press) 
 
 Police in tactical gear surround an apartment building while looking for a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings in Watertown, Mass., Friday, April 19, 2013. All residents of Boston were ordered to... (Associated Press) 
 
 Police officers aim their weapons Friday, April 19, 2013, in Watertown, Mass. A tense night of police activity that left a university officer dead on campus just days after the Boston Marathon bombings... (Associated Press) 
 
 Mimi de Quesada, of Watertown, Mass., reacts while standing by her home in the wake of the sound of shots fired in Watertown, Mass., Friday, April 19, 2013, as a massive search continued for one of two... (Associated Press) 
 
 A barefooted woman runs for cover as police surround a home while searching for a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings in Watertown, Mass., Friday, April 19, 2013. Two suspects in the Boston Marathon... (Associated Press) 
 
 This image provided by the Boston Regional Intelligence Center shows Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, one of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings. Authorities say Tsarnaev is still at large after he and... (Associated Press) 
 
 This surveillance photo released via Twitter Friday, April 19, 2013 by the Boston Police Department shows a suspect entering a convenience store that police are pursuing in Watertown, Mass. Police say... (Associated Press) 
 
 This photo released by the FBI early Friday April 19, 2013, shows what the FBI is calling the suspects together, walking through the crowd in Boston on Monday, April 15, 2013, before the explosions at... (Associated Press) 
 
 People watch as police search for suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, Friday, April 19, 2013, in Watertown, Mass. Gunfire erupted Friday night amid the manhunt for the surviving suspect in the Boston... (Associated Press) 
 
 Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis says the suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (JOH'-kahr tsahr-NY'-ev), was hospitalized late Friday in serious condition. 
 
 His brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan, was killed earlier Friday in a furious attempt to escape police. 
 
 The brothers are suspects in Monday's marathon bombings, which killed three people and wounded more than 180 others. The men are also suspected of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer in his vehicle late Thursday. 
 
 THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below. 
 
 A 19-year-old college student wanted in the Boston Marathon bombings was taken into custody Friday evening after a manhunt that left the city virtually paralyzed and his older brother and accomplice dead. 
 
 Police announced via Twitter that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was in custody. They later wrote, "CAPTURED!!! The hunt is over. The search is done. The terror is over. And justice has won. Suspect in custody." 
 
 Tsarnaev's brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan, was killed Friday in a furious attempt to escape police. 
 
 Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had been holed up in a boat in a Watertown neighborhood. The crowd gathered near the scene let out a cheer when spectators saw officers clapping. 
 
 "Everyone wants him alive," said Kathleen Paolillo, a 27-year-old teacher who lives in Watertown. 
 
 Boston Mayor Tom Menino tweeted "We got him," along with a photo of the police commissioner speaking to him. Watertown residents poured out of their homes and lined the streets to cheer police vehicles as they rolled away from the scene. 
 
 During a long night of violence Thursday into Friday, the brothers killed an MIT police officer, severely wounded another lawman and hurled explosives at police in a car chase and gun battle, authorities said. 
 
 The suspects were identified by law enforcement officials and family members as Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, ethnic Chechen brothers who had lived in Dagestan, which neighbors Chechnya in southern Russia. They had been in the U.S. for about a decade, an uncle said, and were believed to be living in Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 Tamerlan Tsarnaev, a 26-year-old who had been known to the FBI as Suspect No. 1 and was seen in surveillance footage of the marathon in a black baseball cap, was killed overnight, officials said. His younger brother, who had been dubbed Suspect No. 2 and was seen wearing a white, backward baseball cap in the images from Monday's deadly bombing _ escaped and was on the run. 
 
 Their uncle in Maryland, Ruslan Tsarni, pleaded on live television: "Dzhokhar, if you are alive, turn yourself in and ask for forgiveness." 
 
 Authorities in Boston suspended all mass transit and warned close to 1 million people in the entire city and some of its suburbs to stay indoors as the hunt for Suspect No. 2 went on. Businesses were asked not to open. People waiting at bus and subway stops were told to go home. The Red Sox and Bruins postponed their games. 
 
 From Watertown to Cambridge, police SWAT teams, sharpshooters and FBI agents surrounded various buildings as police helicopters buzzed overhead and armored vehicles rumbled through the streets. Authorities also searched trains. 
 
 "We believe this man to be a terrorist," said Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis. "We believe this to be a man who's come here to kill people." 
 
 The bombings on Monday killed three people and wounded more than 180 others, tearing off limbs in a spray of shrapnel and instantly raising the specter of another terrorist attack on U.S. soil. 
 
 Chechnya was the scene of two wars between Russian forces and separatists since 1994, in which tens of thousands were killed in heavy Russian bombing. That spawned an Islamic insurgency that has carried out deadly bombings in Russia and the region, although not in the West. 
 
 Investigators in the Boston case have shed no light on the motive for the bombing and have said it is unclear whether it was the work of domestic or international terrorists or someone else entirely with an unknown agenda. 
 
 The endgame _ at least for Suspect No. 1 _ came just hours after the FBI released photos and video of the two young men at the marathon's finish line and appealed to the public for help in identifying and capturing them. 
 
 State Police spokesman Dave Procopio said police realized they were dealing with the bombing suspects based on what the two men told a carjacking victim during their getaway attempt overnight. 
 
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– The manhunt is over. Police caught Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev tonight after finding him hiding in a boat in a Watertown backyard, reports WCVB. Tsarnaev was taken by ambulance to a hospital; the AP reports that he is in serious condition. Multiple gunshots were heard at the scene of his arrest earlier this evening, preceding a standoff of about two hours. The developments began shortly after police wrapped up a late-afternoon news conference to say the 19-year-old was still at large. NBC News spoke with a relative of the resident who found Tsarnaev, and the story is a wild one: In the relative's telling, the man was having a cigarette outside when he saw that the boat's tarp was loose; he went to fix it, saw a person and bloody clothes inside the boat, "freaked out," and called police. Helicopters used thermal imaging to confirm Tsarnaev's presence. Some other developments and revelations: “All in all, this has been a tough week, but we have seen the character of our country once more,” said President Obama after the arrest. "Tonight our nation is in debt to the people of Boston and the people of Massachusetts." Politico has more details on his comments. The FBI took two men and a woman in for questioning from a house in New Bedford, but it's not clear how serious it is. A police lieutenant says Tsarnaev may have lived in the off-campus home at some point, reports AP. Authorities lifted the "shelter in place" advisory for residents of Boston, with public transportation now open again. Dzhokhar ran over his wounded brother Tamerlan in his haste to escape last night's shootout with police, reports the Globe. Tamerlan was killed, as was one officer; another officer was wounded. One notable revision: Authorities say neither of the brothers robbed a 7-11 store in Cambridge as police previously reported. A 7-11 did get robbed, but not by them, a store exec tells USA Today. "The police or someone made a mistake. Someone was confused." Tamerlan died wearing explosives and a triggering device, CNN reports. One local auto shop owner tells the Wall Street Journal that Dzhokhar, a regular customer, came to him on Tuesday and said he needed his car "right now." The mechanic protested that the bumper and tail lights weren't on it, but Dzhokhar took it anyway. "I think he probably knew something was going to happen."