From Brooklyn to Boston: Love, prayers, support in wake of bombing
The message was simple: We love Boston and we stand with you in your time of sorrow. It was a message delivered by dozens of Brooklyn residents who took part in a candlelight vigil organized by US Rep. Michael Grimm (R-C-Brooklyn-Staten Island) on the Bensonhurst waterfront Sunday evening.
Grimm, a marine and an ex-FBI agent, hosted the brief but touching vigil in memory of the victims of the April 15 bombing at the Boston Marathon that killed three people and injured more than 175 others. Dozens of local residents, including children, stood on the waterfront of the Gravesend Bay next to the Caesar’s Bay Shopping Mall on Bay Parkway, waved American flags, and prayed for the victims and their families.
The vigil took place one day before it was learned that suspected bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, who is being treated at a Boston hospital following his capture on April 19, had regained consciousness and was answering questions from interrogators in writing. A throat injury from a gunshot wound prevented Tsarnaev from speaking, the Washington Times reported. Tsarnaev’s older brother Tamerian, 26, the alleged mastermind of the bombing plot, was killed in a shootout with police on April 18.