Police: Boston suspects planned to attack Times Square
BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Marathon bombing suspects intended to blow up their remaining explosives in New York’s Times Square, New York officials said Thursday.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told interrogators from his hospital bed that he and his older brother had decided spontaneously Thursday night to go to New York to detonate their remaining explosives — a pressure-cooker bomb like the ones that blew up at the marathon, and five pipe bombs.
The plan fell apart after the Tsarnaev brothers were intercepted by police in a stolen car and got into a fierce gun battle that left Tamerlan Tsarnaev dead, Kelly said.