Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Boston Marathon Dept: Tsarnaev, 19, was charged in his hospital room on Monday, where he was in serious condition with a gunshot wound to the throat and other injuries suffered during his attempted getaway. His older brother, Tamerlan, 26, died Friday after a fierce gun battle with police, according to CBC. The brothers, ethnic Chechens from Russia who had been living in the U.S. for about a decade, practised Islam and The two brothers suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon appear to have been motivated by a radical brand of Islam, but do not seem connected to any Muslim militant groups, U.S. officials said after interrogating and charging Dzhokhar Tsarnaev with crimes that could bring the death penalty. The teen, a Massachusetts university student, was charged with using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction. He was accused of joining with his brother in setting off the shrapnel-packed pressure-cooker bombs that killed three people and wounded more than 200 a week ago. A man kneels down to place a message on a makeshift memorial after observing a moment of silence for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings on Monday, marking a week to the day of the bombings at a memorial on Boylston Street. Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.