Dzhokhar Tsarnaev indicted on 30 counts

On Thursday, a grand federal jury handed down a 30-count indictment against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is suspected of being the co-author of the April 15 bombings at the Boston Marathon, where three people died and about 280 were wounded, many of them losing limbs.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

The 19-year-old stands accused of three murders for the two bombs he planted along with his late brother, Tamerlan, at the race finish line and for the shooting death of an MIT campus police officer on the night they began their flight from law enforcement, three days later.

Seventeen of the charges levied against the surviving suspect, including those involving the “use of a weapon of mass destruction,” could result in the death penalty or life in prison.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s arraignment is set for July 10 in a federal district court in Boston.