WASHINGTON: Just hours after Monday's Boston Marathon bombings, one of the brothers accused of staging the attack urged his followers on Twitter to "stay safe people."
As the authorities hunted for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, attention focused on the 19-year-old's social media accounts for clues about his life and potential motivation for allegedly setting bombs that killed three people and wounded more than 180.
Tsarnaev was captured in the Boston suburb of Watertown late Friday, less than 24 hours after his 26-year-old brother and alleged accomplice Tamerlan was killed in a gunbattle with police.
Friends of Tsarnaev confirmed he was an active Twitter user, firing off messages under the handle @J_tsar.
"Ain't no love in the heart of the city, stay safe people," he tweeted at 8:04 pm on Monday, just hours after Boston was rocked by twin explosions that police say he set with his brother.
It was one of a dozen messages he posted on the microblogging site in the hours and days after the tragedy.
A tweet one week prior to the blasts may have offered cryptic hints at what was to come: "If you have the knowledge and the inspiration all that's left is to take action," @J_tsar tweeted on April 8.
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