Losing his life as two explosions ripped through the crowd at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people, Martin was at the race to support his dad Bill Martin, along with his mother Denise Richard and two siblings.
Friends held a vigil on Monday night at the neighborhood Tavolo Restaurant in Dorchester for Martin and his mother and sister, who suffered 'grievous' injuries in the bombing on Monday afternoon.
According to local news reports, Bill is a community leader in the Ashmont section of Dorchester and his other child who attended was reportedly not injured.
Police and federal officials exit an apartment
complex at 364 Ocean Avenue with a possible connection to the earlier
explosions that occurred during the Boston Marathon on Monday
Instagram photo of a parking garage that a
Twitter user who identifies herself as Samara Neves @Samaraaa13 claims
is her building as it is being searched by officials after the Boston
Marathon bombing
364 Ocean Ave in Revere, - which police and
Federal investigators searched this evening after they identified a
'person of interest' who was earlier driving erratically
This news came after around 20 police
and federal officials, including members of the bomb squad searched the
apartment of a 'person of interest' in the Boston marathon bombings on
Monday evening after witnessing an erratic driver circling past the
State Police barracks a number of times.Officers with the Revere police force, which is five miles from downtown Boston pulled him over and a source told WBZ-TV that he displayed a 'nervous demeanor'.
Patriots Day, a Public Holiday and the Marathon - Today Should Have Marked the Revolutionary the 'shot heard 'round the world.'
- Today's attack took place on Patriots' Day, which marks the first battle of the Revolutionary War and the 'shot heard 'round the world.' It is a day held in reverence by right-wing domestic groups and others who oppose the federal government.
- The 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building, which killed 168, occurred the day after Patriots' Day. Bomber Timothy McVeigh was said believe the date was significant.
- The federal siege of the Branch Dravidian compound, which left 82 members of the cult dead, began on Patriots' Day in 1993.
- Today is also Tax Day, when federal income tax returns are due. In recent years, it has been seized on by members of the Tea Party as cause to protest federal government policies and tax rates.
- A Justice Department source tells MailOnline that authorities are looking into the possibility that the Boston attack, which killed two and injured 86 more at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, could have been planned to coincide with Patriots' Day.
- President Barack Obama himself acknowledged the significance of the holiday during his briefing this afternoon.
- 'Today is Patriots Day,' he said. 'A day that reflects the freedom Boston has celebrated throughout its history.'
A source confirmed that the large police presence at the home in Revere is related to the Boston Marathon bombings - which killed three people, including an eight-year-old boy and left 144 people injured - 17 critically.
Marcus Worthington, 24, a resident in the building said no one from the police or FBI has told him what is happening.
'I started noticing the cars, the Taurus there and that one about 5,' Worthington said. 'We were thankful we decide not to go down. It’s best not to jump to conclusions.'
Boston Police Crime Scene Response unit arrived and two members of that unit took several brown paper bags, normally used to store evidence taken from the scene, into the building and left with them full afterwards.
Police confirmed that at least three people lost their lives in today's deadly Boston Marathon bomb attack - leaving behind a scene of carnage that brought the specter of terrorism back to American soil.
The FBI, which has taken over the investigation into the outrage which has also injured 144 people - 17 critically - announced that they were searching for a man they described as having dark skin, wearing black clothes and a black back-pack who tried to gain entry into a restricted area during the marathon.
It was also reported that he may have had a foreign accent.
And with the victims reportedly ranging from two-years-old to 63-years-old, hospitals across Boston have said that they were removing ball bearings from a large number of the 144 injured in the co-ordinated and almost simultaneous bomb blasts.
Medical officials have said that at least 10 injured people had limbs amputated and several of the patients treated at Massachusetts General Hospital suffered injuries to lower limbs that will require 'serial operations' in the coming days, trauma surgeon Peter Fagenholz said on Monday night to CNN.
Initially counter-terrorism sources in the city believed that seven devices were planted across the city - but only two detonated.
However, a law-enforcement official said late on Monday evening that investigators now doubt those devices were bombs, but were in fact suspect packages - left behind as runners and pedestrians rushed away from the scene in the aftermath of the blasts.
Each device or package was rendered inoperative or was being rendered safe according to officials - who said that the fast moving investigation meant that every suspicious device thought to be a bomb might not be.
A federal law enforcement official told CNN that both bombs which detonated at the Boston finish line were small, and initial tests showed no C-4 or other high-grade explosive was used - indicating they were crude devices.
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