VIDEO: One Week Later, Crowd Returns to Boylston Street to Honor Boston Bombing Victims
Hundreds gathered near Copley Square on Monday at 2:50 p.m., marking the moment when, one week ago, two bombs went off, killing and injuring spectators at the 117th annual Boston Marathon.
One week after thousands of people gathered on Boylston Street to cheer on runners as they crossed the finish line of the 117th annual Boston Marathon, several hundred people returned to the area to honor those who were killed and injured in the bombings that forever changed a Boston tradition. At 2:50 p.m.—the time when, one week prior, the first explosion went off, followed 10 seconds later by a second—the city of Boston and communities throughout Massachusetts held a moment of silence. With the Copley Square area still cordoned off as a crime scene, hundreds of visitors gathered behind fencing at the corner of Boylston and Berkeley streets where a makeshift memorial sprouted up in the week following the event. The memorial, which …
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