He is alive, and according to a federal officer, has unspecified medical needs. It was reported early on that Dzhokhar was taken off site in blacked out windowed car instead of ambulance. But also an ambulance left the scene with siren on. In any case, he is apparently being taken to hospital now. [said to be in stable but critical condition as of 12:42 am MST]
The speculation is the US attorney office will lay out complaint of charges, Dzhokhar will have an attorney, and the process will go forth convening a grand jury for indictment as/if that is legally merited.
I can only think of one way through to meaning for Dzhokhar who is alleged to have participated in a huge crime against humanity… if he is able to clear his mind,
and that is, that the alleged suspect communicates with calm and restraint on all sides, saying he will give all details, names and places, and so on, so future attacks like this one would be better understood and perhaps better prevented. That being not a legal issue, but a moral one. One of his very soul.
It is hard to imagine any other narrow thread of a pathway through for the alleged suspect –and in the midst of so much that cannot be reversed, such harm to so many human beings… that there might be a place for a tiny parcel of light to leak through.
But surely, if the absolute proofs of such malconduct are there, then something terrible went wrong in this young man’s life. He is only 19. And from reports from friends in highschool, he was a likeable, goodnatured person. If all that we speculate is true, is in fact true: Something suddenly made him veer. Far.
We shall know more in the coming days.
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the photo, Student: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev graduating, it is reported, from Cambridge Rindge and Latin School.
I’ve seen Dzokhar/Dshokhar’s, etc. name spelled many different ways. Above AP’s spelling is used.