A jury found Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty of all counts this afternoon in the terrorist attack on the Boston Marathon which occured two years ago next week.
Gretchen Carlson was anchoring on Fox News, Thomas Roberts was on MSNBC, and Brianna Keilar was on CNN when the first of 30 verdicts started rolling in at 2:09.
NBC News has Kate Snow anchoring coverage from New York, joined by Pete Williams in Boston. CBS News broke into programming with Scott Pelley anchoring from New York, and Don Dahler live in Boston. ABC News has Dan Harris leading coverage from New York and “World News Tonight” weekend anchor Tom Llamas reporting from Boston.
Christi Paul, Ali Nejad and Rosci Diaz anchored coverage for HLN during the “The Daily Share.” Al Jazeera America’s coverage includes news correspondent John Terrett and Jamie Floyd with legal analysis.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his brother Tamerlan targeted the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. The story dominated the news for a week, first as the suspects were identified, then the manhunt which followed and the dramatic capture of the younger Tsarnaev brother as 46 million people tuned in to coverage on that Friday night.
Broadcast and cable networks dedicated special coverage to the one-year anniversary last year.
In the next phase of the trial, the jury will hear evidence on whether Tsarnaev should get the death penalty or spend the rest of his life in prison.