Boston Marathon Press Conference: FBI To Address Suspect Identity

The FBI is scheduled to hold a press conference at 5 p.m. today, Wednesday, and is expected to announce the ID of a suspect that was singled out from a video footage taken from the site of the Boston Marathon explosion. CNN reported that investigators had identified the suspect but no arrest has been made yet. There is no suspect in custody as of this writing.

The Boston Globe said that authorities combed through video footage to find an image of “a suspect carrying, and perhaps dropping, a black bag at the second bombing scene.” CBS News correspondent Bob Orr even wrote a more detailed description saying, that the video showed a man in a black jacket talking on his cell phone “placing a black bag at the second bomb site outside of the Forum restaurant on Boylston Street and then leaving the area before that explosion.” Police used the time stamp on the video to scan all the calls made in the area and track him down.

As previously reported, the two bombs that exploded 12 seconds apart near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, were placed inside a pressure cooker hidden inside a backpack. The blasts killed three people and wounding about 180 others.