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Tsarnaev Brothers Were En Route to NY to 'Party'

The Boston Marathon suspects hijacked a car in Cambridge with plans to escape the area last Thursday night.

The brothers accused in the Boston Marathon bombings had plans to “party” in New York before a Friday manhunt that ended with the elder dead and the younger in cuffs, a New York City official said Wednesday.

New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said that brothers Tamerlan and Dzokhar Tsarnaev intended on fleeing to New York City on April 18 to “celebrate," NBC-4 New York reported Wednesday.

It was originally reported that the brothers were headed to New York to commit other attacks, according to the NBC-4 New York story.

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Instead, what ensued was a day-long manhunt for Dzokhar Tsarnaev following the death of his older brother, Tamerlan, who was killed in a shootout in Watertown.

Dzokhar Tsarnaev is charged with using a weapon of mass destruction in the April 15 bombing at the Boston Marathon finish line, which killed three and injured 180 others. He is also accused of the murder of MIT Police Officer Sean Collier. A service for the fallen officer was held Wednesday at the MIT campus.

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