Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is awake and responding sporadically in writing to questions, authorities said. Investigators are asking about other cell members and other unexploded bombs, law enforcement sources told ABC News.
Previously officials said Tsarnaev was in no condition to be interrogated.
Tsarnaev, 19, is being treated at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, where he is listed in serious but stable condition, with wounds to the neck and throat area, according to sources.
The bombing killed three, including a young boy, and wounded about 170. An MIT officer was allegedly killed by Tsarnaev and his brother Tamerlan and a Boston transit cop was badly wounded in a subsequent shootout.
The FBI is still collecting evidence from the Monday’s blast site, mainly from the sides of buildings and the bleachers.
Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis in a news conference Sunday that the circuit board to at least one of the bombs had wires crudely soldered to it and is confident ATF agents will put that bomb back together piece by piece and tell us what it was made of.
Engineers are also checking the structural integrity of buildings near the scene before it fully reopens. Boston Police plan to start returning personal items to people who left behind their things on Monday.
Boston Mayor Thomas Menino said it is time for the city to move forward.
“I’m working hard over the last several days develop a plan to reopen Boyleston Street now the most famous street in the world,” Menino said at the Sunday news conference.
Tsarnaev could face charges at the state and federal levels, but Massachusetts has no death penalty.
Menino hopes federal authorities “throw the book at him,” which would include the possibility of execution.
“I hope that the U.S. attorney takes him on the federal side and throws the book at him,” Menino said on “This Week.” “These two individuals held this city hostage for five whole days.”
“They should not do that — that’s what these terrorist events want to do, hold the city hostage and stop the economy of the city.”
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yes kill him- the death penalty was created for ppl like him.
But before you pull the trigger, WATER-BOARD him & get every piece of info you can to save AMERICAN lives. no pity for him!
Don’t worry, he won’t leave the hospital alive. They will say that he took a turn for the worse and had complications from a gunshot wound and he will die in the hospital (they will kill him) so that he doesn’t say anything about his handler the Saudi student who was quickly “Deported” back to Saudi Arabia. Except for a few plane-loads of laughing Saudis after 9-11, do you know of anyone who got deported so quickly???