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In the early months of 2013, Heather Abbott felt ready for a change. She had built a successful corporate career and had close friendships and a busy social life in Newport, Rhode Island, but new opportunities were right around the corner.
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A marathon runner, Army Reservist, and trauma surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. David King had begun to feel more at home in Boston. He and his wife, Anne, moved back north with some trepidation after years spent studying and working in Miami.
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Krystle Campbell (right center, patterned dress) was a Boston girl with a big presence, who loved the life of her city. Nearing her thirtieth birthday, she was looking to settle down and take on a new project in the restaurant or hospitality business.
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Over the past twenty-five years, Dave McGillivray (right) has become synonymous with the Boston Marathon. As race director, McGillivray is the marathon’s public face, spirit guide, and minute-by-minute micromanager.
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev (center, rear) was the oldest of four children, which included sisters Bella and Ailina and a younger brother, Dzhokhar. Together with their parents, Anzor and Zubeidat, the family immigrated to America in 2002 and 2003.
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The Tsarnaev family had high hopes for Tamerlan, but after his once-bright future in the boxing ring dimmed, he had little else to turn to, instead spending hours watching Islamic videos on his computer.
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Shana Cottone was in high school in New York on 9/11; when she came to Boston to attend Northeastern University, she loved how safe she felt in her adopted city. A few years later she joined the Boston Police Department, thriving in her role reaching out to troubled people.
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After arriving in the United States as an elementary school student, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev seemed to have assimilated successfully into American society. His life, however, was also on a downward spiral.
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Bill Iffrig, a seventy-eight-year-old marathoner from Lake Stevens, Washington, was running down the left side of the course when the first explosion threw him to the ground. With police officers scrambling all around him, Iffrig thought, This might be it. This will be the end of me.
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Shrapnel from the first blast ruptured the femoral artery of Sydney Corcoran, a seventeen-year-old from Lowell, north of Boston, whose mother, Celeste, lost both legs. Two bystanders, Zach Mione (right) and Matt Smith, helped save Sydney’s life by fashioning a tourniquet.
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In a matter of seconds, the celebratory holiday atmosphere of Boylston Street transformed into a chaotic, bloodstained crime scene, with first responders and volunteers working urgently to save lives.
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Police and race officials stopped the marathon on Commonwealth Avenue, less than a mile before the finish line. Thousands of confused, cold, and exhausted runners remained on the course.
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An emergency responder and volunteers, including Carlos Arredondo, in the cowboy hat, raced Jeff Bauman to an ambulance after the explosion outside Marathon Sports ravaged his lower body. Bauman lost both legs in the bombing.
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Many runners cherished competing in the Boston Marathon above all other races. They were devastated to learn of the tragedy unfolding ahead.
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Police and medical personnel waited outside the Boston Medical Center emergency room on April 15, 2013, for more bombing casualties to arrive. The city’s hospitals were inundated with patients in the hours after the explosions.
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This photo of Martin Richard, taken at his school in 2012, quickly became an Internet sensation—and a poignant symbol of the city’s losses—after the bombing. NO MORE HURTING PEOPLE. PEACE, read the sign held by the boy who became, at eight years old, the youngest person killed at the marathon.
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Boston University graduate student Lingzi Lu, twenty-three, who had gone to the marathon with friends, was killed by the second bomb. A native of Shenyang, China, she was close to completing her statistics degree.
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On Tuesday, April 16, barely twenty-four hours after her daughter, Krystle, was killed on Boylston Street, Patty Campbell struggled through a brief statement to reporters from the porch of her home in Medford, north of Boston. “We can’t believe this has happened,” she said.
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Dozens of running shoes were left behind in sympathy and solidarity at the makeshift memorial to the bombing victims. The memorial began in the street where metal barricades blocked off the crime scene, and was later moved to a corner of the park in Copley Square.
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The day after the bombing, children held candles during a twilight vigil in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood for Martin Richard and other bombing victims. The gathering in Garvey Park, near where Martin lived, drew more than one thousand people, many of whom knew the boy and his family.
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Posters hung at the memorial attracted thousands of signers from across the world, who scrawled messages of love, strength, and solidarity with Boston.
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President Barack Obama addressed two thousand people inside Boston’s Cathedral of the Holy Cross during an emotional interfaith service on April 18, 2013. “Your country is with you,” Obama said. “You will run again.”
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Chilling security footage showed Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, each carrying a bag, walking behind unsuspecting marathon spectators perched along the race route. The video provided the key break in the case.
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Sean Collier, a twenty-seven-year-old who had wanted to be a cop all of his life, was assassinated by the Tsarnaevs as he sat in his MIT police cruiser on the night of Thursday, April 18, in what would be a violent prelude to a violent night.
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During a chaotic firefight with the Tsarnaevs in suburban Watertown, a bullet severed the femoral artery of Richard “Dic” Donohue, a thirty-three-year-old police officer with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. Donohue’s fellow officers and firefighters raced to save his life.
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A SWAT team assembled on deserted Nichols Avenue in Watertown during the manhunt for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Friday, April 19.
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Under lockdown as police combed their neighborhood for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Watertown residents spent much of Friday watching the drama unfold on TV and peering warily out of their windows, hoping for a successful ending to the search.
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A Massachusetts State Police helicopter equipped with a thermal-imaging camera captured this image of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hiding in a boat, the Slipaway II, in the backyard of David Henneberry. Henneberry discovered Dzhokhar after going out to check on his boat, rushing back inside to call police.
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left Franklin Street in Watertown in an ambulance on the night of Friday, April 19, after being pulled from the boat by police and taken into custody.
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Celebrations erupted in the streets after the capture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Relieved residents crowded Watertown sidewalks to cheer police as they left the scene; others gathered that night on Boston Common to sing and chant “USA!” and “BPD!”
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A week after her death, Krystle Campbell’s friends and family gathered at St. Joseph Church, in her hometown of Medford, to bid her good-bye. The church had to turn mourners away.
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Heather Abbott threw out the ceremonial first pitch at a Boston Red Sox game at Fenway Park on May 11, 2013. Discharged from the hospital that morning, she returned home to Newport, Rhode Island, later that day, her first time back since the bombing.
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Bombing victim Jeff Bauman, who had locked eyes with Tamerlan Tsarnaev right before losing both of his legs in the first blast, pointed at Carlos Arredondo, the bystander who helped save his life, while being honored at Fenway Park on May 28, 2013.
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Nearly six weeks after the bombing, marathoners, spectators, and first responders came together under a spring rain to rerun the course’s final mile, in an event organizers dubbed #onerun.
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Samantha Herwig broke down while crossing the finish line of the Run to Remember in Boston, on May 26, 2013, which honored fallen police officer Sean Collier.
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The June morning that the city began taking down the memorial in Copley Square, Krystle Campbell’s parents, Billy and Patty, toured the site for the first time, taking a rosary as a memento. Many artifacts from the memorial were preserved in the city archive.
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Jane Richard, seven, who was the youngest person to lose a leg in the bombing—and whose older brother, Martin, was killed—appeared at Fenway Park on October 13, 2013, with the youth choir from St. Ann Parish in Dorchester. The children sang the national anthem before Game 2 of the American League Championship Series.
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Red Sox left fielder Jonny Gomes placed the 2013 World Series trophy on the Boston Marathon finish line during the team’s victory parade on November 2, 2013. “This is for you, Boston. You deserve it,” veteran Sox slugger David Ortiz had said, after the Red Sox defeated the St. Louis Cardinals three days earlier, earning a World Series title like no other.
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