'Got him'. US rejoices after manhunt

This still frame from video shows Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev visible through an ambulance after he was captured in Watertown. Picture: AP Source: AP

"WE got him" - and with that authorities delivered on their promise to bring the suspects of the Boston Marathon bombings, identified as young radicalised Russian-born Americans, to swift justice.

With one brother dead and the other being treated for serious gunshot wounds - Boston was overcome with relief after four days that gripped the world, beginning with Monday afternoon's horrific twin backpack blasts during the marathon, and ending at 8.45pm on Friday evening, US time, as 19-year-old terror fugitive Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was cornered inside a boat in a backyard.

After a two-hour standoff, Dzhokhar was rendered helpless by bullets and stun grenades as police, who had shut down 20 blocks in the area, pinned him down.

Dzhokhar's older brother, Tamerlan, aged 26, was shot dead by police earlier on Friday morning after the two brothers threw improvised explosive devices from a stolen car at pursuing officers.

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The vehicle was bought to a temporary halt in Watertown, only about 10km west of downtown Boston, where the men allegedly set off Monday's bombs.

Dzhokhar was so desperate to escape he ran over his dying brother in the stolen car.

The photo identities of the two, who proclaimed themselves as Muslim ethnic Chechens from southern Russia, were first made public at 5pm on Thursday, when the FBI released a series of stills and moving images that showed them carrying backpacks through the marathon crowd.

The Associated Press identified the surviving bomb suspect as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, from Russia. Picture: VK.com 

After that, as the suspects names began to circulate, events moved rapidly as the pair became desperate.

Just after 10pm, on the same day, they allegedly attempted to rob a 7-Eleven store in Kendell Square, near the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Then came reports of shots being fired on the campus, which led 26-year-old MIT police office, Sean Collier, to investigate at around 10.20pm.

Officer Collier was gunned down inside his vehicle, dying of multiple wounds.

Boston Marathon bomb suspect number two is in custody after law enforcement arrested him after a brief stand-off. Fox News

The brothers then allegedly carjacked a Mercedes SUV and kept the occupant hostage for several hours before ditching him unharmed.

As Bostonians were warned to stay inside their homes and answer the door to no person, it wasn't till the following morning when the brothers re-emerged in Watertown, and engaged police with homemade IEDS in the wild pursuit in which Tamerlan who in the FBI images was wearing the black cap was killed.

Dzhokhar, who ditched the stolen car, then moved on foot through Watertown, sparking terror in the suburbs as the police dragnet closed throughout the day.

The suspect was holed up in this boat at 67 Franklin Street, Watertown. Picture: Fox News 25.

By evening, residents reported hearing a series of explosions and gunshots. Shortly after 8.45pm, Watertown fell silent. An official tweeted these words to a reporter: "alive, conscious, captured", signalling the siege was at an end.

"We got him," tweeted Boston Mayor Thomas Menino.

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An aerial view of the boat in the backyard of the property at 67 Franklin Street, Watertown. Picture: Bing Maps

Attempts to negotiate with him failed as he was ''not communicating,'' one official said.

A hostage negotiator was called in and shortly after the man was arrested. He was taken to Mount Auburn Hospital in Watertown by ambulance in a serious condition.

He was later transferred to the Beth Israel Medical Center in Boston.

President Obama has praised the efforts of law enforcement after the arrest of suspect number two in the Boston bombing. Fox News

Hundreds of people later descended into the streets of Boston to celebrate, chanting: ''USA! USA!''

Dozens of people at a police barricade cheered and applauded as law enforcement officers and emergency responders left the scene.

Boston Police tweeted: ''CAPTURED!!! The hunt is over. The search is done. The terror is over. And justice has won. Suspect in custody.''

A police officer reacts to news of the arrest of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects in Boston. Picture: AP

In another, Boston Police tweet: ''In our time of rejoicing, let us not forget the families of Martin Richard, Lingzi Lu, Krystle Campbell and Officer Sean Collier.''

"It's a night where I think we're all going to rest easy," said Governor Deval Patrick at a news conference in Watertown, shortly after Dzhokhar's arrest, which brought locals pouring from their homes to celebrate what President Barack Obama said was the close of "an important chapter in this tragedy".

But he said there are still many unanswered questions about the bombings, including whether the two men had help from others.

A gathering of people applaud as first responders leave the scene after the arrest. Picture: AP

''We will determine what happened. We will investigate any associations that these terrorists may have had. And we'll continue to do whatever we have to do to keep our people safe,'' the President said.

Onlookers erupted in applause and cheers as police vehicles slowly drove away - with some officers punching the air and cheering.

On earlier learning of the death of his oldest son, the Associated Press reported Anzor Tsarnaev, speaking from southern Russian republic of Dagestan, describing Tamerlan as "a true angel".

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"They were set up, they were set up!" he told the reporter. "I saw it on television; they killed my older son Tamerlan." He told another news outlet his sons were: "Muslim, but not radical Muslim".

Before the brothers were captured or killed, their uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, held a press conference at his home in Maryland, in which he dismissed notions his nephews, who arrived in the US from southern Russia a decade ago, had any true understanding of Islam or the Chechen struggle to create a separate Muslim state.

"It has nothing to do with Islam, not the way my brother raised them. It has to do with them being losers," said Ruslan, who asked America's forgiveness for his nephews.

Law enforcement evacuate people near to where a suspect is hiding on Franklin St. Picture: AFP

He said the brothers, who left Russia when they were 15 and eight respectively, were never able to feel at home in the US and "thereby just hating everyone who did". He said the bombs had nothing to do with Chechnya, but also admitted he hadn't seen his nephews for eight years.

The New York Times reported the brothers' father as saying Dzhokhar was naturalised in 2012, though Tamerlan was having trouble getting citizenship because of a domestic violence complaint.

"Because of his girlfriend, he hit her lightly, he was locked up for half an hour. There was jealousy there," Anzor Tsarnaev told the newspaper, which also reported Tamerlan was questioned by the FBI in 2011, at the request of a foreign government concerned about his extremist ties.

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For William Campbell, whose sister Krystle was one of the three killed by Monday's bombs, the killing and the arrest was bittersweet. He told the Boston Globe: "I'm happy that nobody else is going to get hurt by these guys, but it's not going to bring her back."

The boys' father has said that the reason the family fled Chechnya was to escape the brutality of the crackdown. He went home a year ago, believing life had become safe for him, and wanted his sons to come home with him.

Instead, they brought the war, a war they knew little about, to the country that gave them sanctuary.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been named as the second suspect from the Boston Marathon bombings.

paul.toohey@news.com.au

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