After 11 hours of deliberations, a federal jury has found Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty of charges related to the Boston Marathon bombing in April 2013. Tsarnaev, 21, was convicted of every charge, including 17 that carry the death penalty as a possible sentence.
Deliberations began on Tuesday and continued earlier today. Tsarnaev faced 30 counts and could be eligible for the death penalty. As USA Today notes, the first count he was convicted of was conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction.
According to The Boston Globe, he has also been convicted of the murder of MIT Police Officer Sean Collier, who was killed days after the bombing, during Tsarnaev’s attempt to leave the area.
The jury was made up of seven women and five men.
The bombing occurred on April 15, 2013, leaving 260 injured and three dead. Collier was killed three days later at the start of the day-long manhunt. Tsarnaev’s older brother Tamerlan was killed during a shootout with police that day, while Dzhokhar was later arrested in Watertown, Massachusetts.
The three victims of the bombing were Krystle Campbell, 29; Martin Richard, 8; and Lingzi Lu, 23.
The trial now moves to the sentencing phase, during which the jury will decide to sentence him to death. That process could start as soon as next week.