While the manhunt continues for 19 year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the younger of the two brothers believed responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings that killed three and wounded up to 170 people, a death photo has surfaced, reportedly of his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, that died in a firefight last night with police.
[Major Update] Police: Suspect is in Custody. Boston Police confirm.
Suspect in custody. Officers sweeping the area. Stand by for further info.
— Boston Police Dept. (@Boston_Police) April 20, 2013
TMZ reports "law enforcement sources tell TMZ it's 100% authentic.
Via International Business Times:
According to Boston.com, the alleged death photo is that of 29-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev and was circulated in an email by law enforcement officials Friday morning with “Suspect 1” written on the image. The site reported officers were using the photo of the dead body “to revel” in the alleged bomber's demise, from a shootout with police in the early-morning hours Friday. Law enforcement continued the search for Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s brother, Dzhokhar, who is still at large.
“Mission accomplished. We’re halfway there. Justice is served,” the official said, Boston.com reported.
Another officer called seeing the photo “cathartic.”
The Smoking Gun reports everyone is denying having taken the photo:
Seen above, the picture shows Tsarnaev--naked from the hip up--after he died at 1:35 AM at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Tsarnaev was mortally wounded during a gun battle between him and his 19-year-old brother Dzhokar and police.
In an interview, Dr. Richard Wolfe, chief of the hospital’s emergency medicine department, said that he had seen the photo, but stressed that the image “was not taken during the medical procedures or when the medical team had control of the body.”
While Wolfe said that he would be greatly concerned “if it was a health care provider,” he flatly added that, at no point, did hospital staffers photograph Tsarnaev’s body.
Wolfe said that after Tsarnaev was pronounced dead, his body was moved to a “non-clinical area” where custody of the corpse was turned over to law enforcement officials.
The graphic photo shows gunshot wounds to Tsarnaev’s body as well as a large thorocotomy incision on his chest. Additionally, portions of Tsarnaev’s face and right shoulder reflect a discoloration that Wolfe termed “purplish lividity.”
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