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Race officials, competitors and onlookers participate in 26 seconds of silence at the starting line in honor of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
9:17am
Wheelchair competitors begin their 26.2-mile race
9:32am
Women runners begin
10am
Male runners begin
11:58am
Kenyan Rita Jeptoo crosses the finish line as the women’s winner at 2 hours, 26 minutes, 25 seconds.
12:10pm
Ethiopian Lelisa Desisa becomes the men’s winner. His winning time was 2 hours, 10 minutes, 22 seconds.
2:38 pm
Cameras show two men--later identified by authorities as Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev--turning onto Boylston Street, the road where the marathon's finish line is located.
2:42pm
Tamerlan Tsarnaev detaches himself from the crowd and begins walking east toward the marathon finish line. He walks past the Forum restaurant, while carrying a knapsack, toward where the first blast will soon occur.
2:45pm
His brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev begins walking toward the finish line, with his right thumb seemingly hooked under his backpack strap and a phone in his left hand. He stops in front of the Forum restaurant, standing by a metal barrier alongside marathon spectators.
2:49pm
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev lifts the phone to his head and speaks for about 18 seconds. He finishes the call, and the first explosion goes off within seconds. A few seconds later, his brother starts moving west--away from the finish line, and not carrying the knapsack he'd once had. About 10 seconds later, there's an explosion where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had put the bag--about a block from the first blast.
3:30pm
Reports and images from the scene begin to circulate on social media, including some graphic photos.
4pm
Law enforcement sources tell NBC News that small homemade bombs caused the explosions.
4:10pm
Boston officials report at least two people are dead and at least 100 other people injured.
4:12pm
Police report a third blast near the JFK Library in Dorchester, Mass.
4:40pm
News on condition of anonymity, says attack is being treated as "act of terrorism."
6pm
Officials tell NBC’s Jim Miklaszewski that Boston PD officers are "guarding" a wounded man at a Boston hospital as a "possible suspect."
6:10pm
President Obama addresses the nation and offers condolences to the victims in Boston. "We will find out who did this. We'll find out why they did this," he says in a 3-minute statement. "Any responsible individuals, any responsible groups, will feel the full weight of justice."
8:55pm
Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis announces the death toll rises to three in the Boston Marathon explosions.
10:20pm
Police confirm two explosives, each of which contained BBs or ball bearings that functioned as shrapnel; be-on-the-lookout alerts are issued for a man seen leaving the blast scene in dark clothing and a hood as well as one for a rental truck seen attempting to enter the area near the finish line.
April 18, 2013
11pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier, 26, is shot dead on the school's Cambridge, Massachusetts, campus -- a killing authorities later link to the Tsarnaevs.
April 19, 2013
Early morning
Police say the two suspects hijack a car at gunpoint in Cambridge, Massachusetts, taking the driver as a hostage. One suspect tells the driver they are the Boston Marathon bombers, and the suspects talk openly about heading to New York.Eventually, though, the driver is able to escape his captors by running from them into a gas station convenience store.Thanks in large part to information from the hostage, authorities track down the suspects. A chase ensues, during which the suspects toss explosives and exchange gunfire with police.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev dies after the gunfight, while his brother eludes authorities.
DaytimeBoston and surrounding communities are put on lock-down -- with schools closed, public transit halted and people ordered off the streets -- as authorities hunt for the surviving suspect.
7pm
After the lockdown is lifted, a resident goes outside to check on his boat parked in the backyard and notices blood inside. His tip leads to a large-scale law enforcement effort that culminates with the capture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
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Federal authorities announce charges against three of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's friends.Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev are charged with having willfully "conspired with each other to commit an act against the United States ... by knowingly destroying, concealing and covering up objects belonging to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev." Phillipos is charged with having "knowingly and willfully [made] materially false statements to federal investigators."
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