Boston Marathon Bombing Analysis

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Imagine you’re about to achieve your dream of completing the Boston Marathon, then “BOOM!” Everything goes black. The Boston Marathon Bombing occurred on April 15th, 2013. Two brothers planted two homemade bombs near the finish line. After the two explosions, three were left dead and more than 260 were injured. The bombers later on received major consequences for the pain, suffering, and financial damage they caused. The bombing of the Boston Marathon left many people injured and took a few lives, too. According to CNN, three people were killed at the scene and 264 were injured. The killed victims were Martin Richard, Krystle Campbell, and Lingzi Lu. The number may have been lower, but the bombers created their bombs with nails in each to maximize deaths and injuries. CNBC stated that, 70 victims were hospitalized, and 14 limbs were lost. All of the victims were quickly taken to the hospital …show more content…

CNBC calculated that, the amount of damage in lost wages, retail sales, and infrastructure is about $333 million. It also cost tens of thousands of dollars for rehab and the cost of hospitalized victims is over $9 million. Each of the fourteen amputations also costed $20,000, according to CNBC. There was as much traumatic damage as there was financial damage after the explosions. The two bombers ended up with the same consequence, even though it took different paths to take effect. Both of the bombers were captured within five days of the explosions. The older brother of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Tomerlan Tsarnaev, was shot and killed in a police shootout where officer Sean Collier also died. After his brother’s passing, Dzhokhar went to court where he was charged with 30 criminal counts, 17 holding the possibility of death. According to the court records, the jury debated for 15 hours before agreeing on death for six of the 17. He was very accepting of

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