Obama said that “an important chapter in this tragedy” while commenting Friday night on the capture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, suspected of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombings with his older brother. The president thanked the police forces and the investigators for their efforts, adding that the inquiry should continue until the case is fully resolved.
“Obviously, tonight there are still many unanswered questions. Among them, why did young men who grew up and studied here, as part of our communities and our country, resort to such violence?” Obama said in a speech released by the White House.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his brother Tamerlan, whom Obama called “terrorists," are allegedly responsible for the explosions that killed three people and injured more than 170 earlier this week. The investigation identified them as members of a family that lived in Russia’s turbulent North Caucasus region plagued by two wars between the federal troops and local forces in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was killed on Thursday night in a shootout with police, while his brother was cornered and captured alive in the manhunt a day later.
