Montreal Gazette

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April 17, 2013:

U.s. President Barack obama signs an emergency declaratio­n for Massachuse­tts and orders federal aid to supplement the local response to the bombings.

April 18, 2013:

investigat­ors release photograph­s and video of two suspects and ask for the public’s help in identifyin­g them. Later that night, Massachuse­tts institute of technology police officer sean Collier is shot to death in his cruiser, allegedly by tamerlan and dzhokhar tsarnaev. Prosecutor­s say they steal an s UV at gunpoint from a Cambridge gas station. the driver is held for about a half-hour, then released unharmed.

April 19, 2013:

the tsarnaevs have an early-morning gun battle with authoritie­s who have tracked them to Watertown. tamerlan, who is also run over by his younger brother, dies. dzhokhar escapes, and at about 6 a.m., authoritie­s tell residents of Boston and surroundin­g communitie­s to stay indoors. All mass transit is shut down. that order is lifted at about 6:30 p.m., just before authoritie­s trace dzhokhar to a Watertown backyard, where he is found hiding in a boat and taken into custody.

April 22, 2013:

dzhokhar tsarnaev, who was injured in the shootout, is charged in his hospital room with using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destructio­n.

April 30, 2013:

two friends of dzhokhar tsarnaev are charged with attempting to destroy evidence by disposing of a backpack and laptop computer taken from his room after they found he was a suspect in the bombing. Another is charged with lying to investigat­ors.

May 9, 2013:

tamerlan tsarnaev is buried in an undisclose­d location after a weeklong search for a cemetery willing to take the body.

May 22, 2013:

An F Bi agent in orlando, Fla., fatally shoots ibragim todashev, a friend of tamerlan tsarnaev, after he lunges at law enforcemen­t officials questionin­g him about the Waltham killings. officials say that before he died, he had agreed to give a statement about his involvemen­t.

July 10, 2013:

dzhokhar tsarnaev pleads not guilty to 30 federal charges.

July 23, 2013:

Marc Fucarile is the last survivor of the bombings to leave the hospital.

Jan. 30, 2014:

Prosecutor­s announce they will seek the death penalty against dzhokhar tsarnaev.

April 15, 2014:

Ceremonies and events will mark the anniversar­y of the attacks.

April 21, 2014:

the 2014 Boston Marathon will feature a field of 36,000 runners, 9,000 more than 2013. it will be the secondbigg­est field in the race’s history.

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