Boston Marathon bombing

=== Release of suspect photos ===
[[Jeff Bauman]] was immediately adjacent to one of the bombs and lost both legs; he wrote while in the hospital: "Bag, saw the guy, looked right at me".<ref name="Bauman evidence" /> He later gave a detailed description of the suspects, which enabled images of them to be identified and circulated quickly.<ref name="Bauman evidence" /><ref name="AutoLC-53" /><ref name="AutoLC-54" />

At 5:00{{nbsp}}p.m. on April 18, three days after the bombing, the FBI released images of two suspects carrying backpacks, asking the public's help in identifying them.<ref name="FBI18AprSuspectPics" /><ref name="FBI plea" /> The FBI said that they were doing this in part to limit harm to people wrongly identified by news reports and on social media.<ref name="AutoLC-175" />
As seen on video, the suspects stayed to observe the chaos after the explosions, then walked away casually. The public sent authorities a deluge of photographs and videos.<ref name="FBI plea" /> The FBI-released images depicted Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev.<ref name="relaxed">Yashwant Raj, [http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/Chunk-HT-UI-WorldSectionPage-BostonBlast/Boston-bomber-partied-with-friends-after-attack/Article1-1048258.aspx "Boston Bomber Partied with Friends after Attack"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626150311/http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/Chunk-HT-UI-WorldSectionPage-BostonBlast/Boston-bomber-partied-with-friends-after-attack/Article1-1048258.aspx |date=June 26, 2015 }}, ''[[Hindustan Times]]'', April 22, 2013.</ref>