While the event has previously been dramatised by Jake Gyllenhaal\u2019s Stronger<\/a> and Patriots Day, in which Mark Wahlberg plays fictional sergeant Tommy Saunders, American Manhunt looks at how the tragedy led to a shoot-out between the bombers and police.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s everything you need to know about the true story behind the docuseries and where the bombers are now.<\/p> On 15th April 2013, two homemade pressure cooker bombs were detonated near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring hundreds.<\/p>\n The bombs were planted by brothers Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who were identified three days later from images of two men \u2013 one wearing a black hat, another wearing a white hat.<\/p>\n During the 117th annual Boston Marathon, the first bomb was detonated outside Marathon Sports at 2:49pm, while the second was set off seconds later one block away.<\/p>\n In the immediate aftermath, nearby hotels and buildings were evacuated, while airspace over Boston was restricted and President Barack Obama addressed the nation, saying that those responsible \u201cwill feel the full weight of justice\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n Police were able to use CCTV and camera footage from the marathon to identify the two suspects, with the FBI releasing photographs of them on 18th April<\/a>, asking the public to help in identifying them.<\/p>\n The next day, the suspects were identified as brother Dhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev \u2013 two brothers\u00a0 of Chechen descent living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who had been in Kyrgyzstan and claimed asylum in the US with their family back in 2002.<\/p>\n The night before, the Tsarnaev brothers had shot and killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier, which investigators believed was an attempt to steal his gun<\/a> \u2013 however, due to the holster\u2019s locking system, they were unable to do so.<\/p>\n They then carjacked a driver in Cambridge, taking the owner Dun Meng hostage and forcing him to take $800 out of his bank account with a plan to detonate more bombs<\/a> in New York City, however Meng managed to escape whilst they stopped for petrol and asked a Mobile station to call the police.<\/p>\n Using Meng\u2019s phone, which was still in the car, law enforcement tracked the brothers and located them in Watertown, where a car chase ensued, with the suspects opening fire on police and throwing a pressure cooker bomb and five \u201ccrude grenades\u201d<\/a>, three of which exploded.<\/p>\n Three people were killed \u2013 8-year-old Martin Richard, 23-year-old Lingzi L\u00fc and 29-year-old Krystle Campbell \u2013 in the Boston Marathon Bombing on 15th April 2013.<\/p>\n As for injuries, 291 civilians were treated at hospitals, with at least 16 people losing their limbs.<\/p>\n The day after the bombing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier (27) was killed by the bombers in his car, while Boston police officer Dennis Simmonds died from head injuries sustained during a shootout with the bombers later that evening in Watertown.<\/p>\n Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev<\/a> were brothers of Chechen descent, who were responsible for the Boston Marathon Bombing of 2013.<\/p>\n Tamerlan Tsarnaev, (26), was the eldest brother and an aspiring boxer, while Dzhokhar (20), was a student at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, studying nursing. The brothers\u2019 family had been moved from Chechnya following World War II, with the Tsarnaevs living in Tokmok, Kyrgyzstan until 2002, when their parents applied for asylum in the States.<\/p>\n Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had become radicalised in the late noughties, with their uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, saying that he \u201chad been concerned about his nephew being an extremist since 2009\u201d<\/a> after being influenced by a Muslim convert.<\/p>\nAmerican Manhunt: Boston Marathon Bombing true story\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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