BOSTON.COM — Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, told federal investigators that he and his brother initially planned to detonate explosives at Boston’s vaunted July 4th celebration on the Charles River Esplanade, according to two officials briefed on the interrogation.
When the brothers built the bombs faster than they had anticipated, they then drove around Boston and Cambridge sometime before Marathon day, casing police stations, with an alternative plan to launch an attack on law enforcement officers, one of the officials said.
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“They surveyed these police stations, multiple stations in Boston and one in Cambridge,” said the official, who talked on the condition of anonymity.
“They built the bombs so fast that they decided to move the whole plan up,” the official said.
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