Softball: Rally by Citrus wins semifinal /B1 All National WEDNESDAY TODAY CITRUS COUNTY & next morning Offers Listed! HIGH SEE PAGE C12 FOR DETAILS 85 Mostly sunny. VILLAGE VILLAGE LOW PAGE A4 TOYOTA TOYOTA 000EN0E 62 www.chronicleonline.com APRIL 17, 2013 Florida’s Best Community Newspaper Serving Florida’s Best Community 50¢ VOL. 118 ISSUE 253 ‘Someone knows who did this’ Associated Press A mourner places a note with flowers Tuesday at a police barricade near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The bombs that ripped through the crowd at the Boston Marathon, killing three people and wounding more than 170, were fashioned out of pressure cookers and packed with metal shards, nails and ball bearings to inflict maximum carnage, a person briefed on the investigation said Tuesday. New details emerge in Boston bombings; devices were made from pressure cookers packed with shrapnel Local marathon vets Associated Press solo bomber or group, and the consisted of explosives put in feel for Boston victims FBI vowed to “go to the ends of common 1.6-gallon pressure BOSTON — The bombs that the Earth” to find out who did it. cookers, one containing shards MIKE WRIGHT qualify by age classes. ripped through the Boston Scores of victims remained in of metal and ball bearings, the Staff writer Nicholas, 49, said she needed Marathon crowd appear to have Boston hospitals, many with other packed with nails, accord- to finish a 26.2-mile marathon been fashioned out of ordinary grievous injuries, a day after the ing to a person close to the in- CRYSTAL RIVER — Dan in under 4 hours and achieved kitchen pressure cookers, twin explosions near the vestigation who spoke on Epstein and Gloria Bishop that goal in February during packed with nails and other marathon’s finish line killed condition of anonymity because know those final steps. Carol the Rock ‘n’ Roll New Orleans fiendishly lethal shrapnel, and three people, wounded more the probe was still going on. Nicholas was looking forward Marathon with a 3:45.30 time. hidden in duffel bags left on the than 170 and reawakened fears Both bombs were stuffed into to it next year. Nicholas said her students ground, investigators and others of terrorism. A 9-year-old girl duffel bags, the person said. All three, educators at Crys- were well aware of that fact as close to the case said Tuesday. and 10-year-old boy were among At a news conference, tal River Middle School, say they watched the drama un- President Barack Obama 17 victims listed in critical Richard DesLauriers, FBI agent Monday’s bombing at the fold Monday. branded the attack an act of ter- condition. Boston Marathon was shock- “I was the first person they rorism, whether carried out by a Officials found that the bombs See BOMBS/Page A7 ing and painful. thought of,” she said. “It wasn’t a day of celebra- Nicholas said the news tion at all,” Bishop, the footage was devastating. school’s principal, said. “I sat “You take something so joy- watching with tears in my ful, and this takes the joy Dead include 8-year-old eyes.” away,” she said. Bishop ran the Boston Bishop recalls the special Marathon in 2001. Epstein, a feeling of being in the Boston math teacher, has run it three Marathon. Restaurant manager, graduate student also killed times. Nicholas, who teaches “It’s a goal most marathon American History, qualified in runners have to qualify for the twin blasts that turned a scene of celebration into Associated Press February to run the race in Boston Marathon,” Bishop chaos. 2014. said. “It was one of the best BOSTON — Third-grader Martin Richard had Some 180 others suffered injuries that included Epstein grew up in Boston memories of my life. It was just gotten ice cream and was near the Boston severed limbs, shrapnel wounds and abdominal and has family there. He said awesome. I had goose bumps.” Marathon finish line, eagerly watching for friends lacerations. two sisters were exiting the The race attracts about to run by. Krystle Campbell was enjoying the race Jeff Bauman Jr., a man pictured in an Associ- Red Sox game and heard the 20,000 runners. Nicholas said with her best friend, hoping to get a photo of the ated Press photo being rushed from the scene two blasts. she and her family couldn’t other woman’s boyfriend after he conquered the Monday in a wheelchair, lost both legs. Rescuers “It really hit home,” he said. help but think what would last mile. took the 27-year-old to Boston Medical Center, To marathon runners, there have happened if she had run Then the unthinkable struck. The spirited where doctors had to amputate because of exten- is nothing like the Boston this year. 8-year-old with a wide grin who dressed up one sive vascular and bone damage. Marathon. Halloween as Woody from “Toy Story” was dead, “Unfortunately, my son was just in the wrong Runners are required to See LOCAL/Page A7 along with the outgoing 29-year-old woman and a Boston University graduate student — victims of See VICTIMS/Page A7 Computer hacking antics lead to student’s arrest deputies were called to the In December, he used another to use in the future for mail-outs school to meet with the teen student’s sign-on and password and forgot to secure it in the Officials: Personal data accessed about his unruly behavior. to gain access to the computer, manner that it should have In November, he inserted a which contained a file with stu- been.” ERYN WORTHINGTON into the school’s computer sys- USB thumb drive that contained dents’ personal information. The student approached two Staff writer tem, according to the Citrus a password-cracking program “School personnel obtain in- students and revealed that he County Sheriff ’s Office. into a workstation computer, formation from the Student knew their Social Security CRYSTAL RIVER — A 15- The Chronicle is withholding which alerted the Technology Management System,” said Mike numbers. year-old Crystal River High the boy’s name because of his Resource Center this type of ma- Mullen, assistant superinten- He later admitted to the School student was arrested Fri- age. No bond was set. licious program was present. He dent of schools. “They created a day in connection with hacking According to his arrest report, lost his computer privileges. separate file on their computer See HACKER/Page A2 Comics . .C7 Editorial . .A10 INDEX Lottery Payouts . .B3 Classifieds . .C8 Community . .C5 Entertainment . .A4 Movies . .C7 TV Listings . .C6 Crossword . .C6 Horoscope . .A4 Lottery Numbers . .B3 Obituaries . .A6 A2 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2013 CITRUS COUNTY (FL) CHRONICLE Letter sent to Inverness ready to rock Miss. senator tests positive for poison Associated Press Terrance W. Gainer, the Senate sergeant-at-arms, WASHINGTON — An said in an emailed mes- envelope addressed to sage to Senate offices that Sen. Roger Wicker of Mis- the envelope to Wicker, a sissippi twice tested posi- Republican, had no obvi- tive Tuesday for ously suspicious ricin, a potentially outside markings fatal poison, con- and lacked a re- gressional offi- turn address. It cials said, bore a postmark heightening con- from Memphis, cerns about ter- Tenn. rorism a day after Mail from a a bombing killed broad swath of three and left Roger northern Missis- more than 170 in- Wicker sippi, including jured at the senator from the Memphis sub- Boston Marathon. Mississippi. urbs of DeSoto One senator, County, Miss., Tu- Claire McCaskill of Mis- pelo, Oxford and the souri, said authorities northern part of the Mis- have a suspect in the fast- sissippi Delta region is moving ricin case, but she processed and post- did not say if an arrest marked in Memphis, ac- had been made. She cording to a Postal Special to the Chronicle added the letter was from Service map. The Mem- Inverness-based band This Day’s Age kicks off the Pine Street Jam lineup of free concerts in downtown Inverness an individual who phis center also at 4 p.m. Saturday. All Citrus High School students, band members, from the left, are: Josh Jurgensmeier, guitar; Alex frequently writes processes mail for resi- Dickinson, drums; Robbie Verdin, vocals; and Jill Isenberg, bass. lawmakers. dents of western parts of The FBI and U.S. Capi- Tennessee and eastern tol Police are both inves- Arkansas. Pine Street Jam slated for this Saturday in downtown tigating. Both declined to Gainer said there was comment. “no indication that there NANCY KENNEDY Kicking off the night is Their sound leans to- shows. I booked them for Late Tuesday, Wicker are other suspect mail- Staff writer This Day’s Age, four Citrus ward ’90s alternative rock, Rock the Block this year released a statement ac- ings.” Yet he urged cau- High School students who Chmura said. because I know they’ll do a knowledging the letter tion, and also said the INVERNESS — Pine met as members of Breez, “We write our songs great job.” and said it was sent to his Senate off-site mail facil- Street in downtown Inver- the CHS performance based on bands we like, Currently, the band is Washington office. ity where the initial tests ness becomes Music Row music group. and we have multiple working on a five-track EP. “This matter is part of were performed on the from 4 to 11 p.m. this Sat- They are: Alex Dickin- styles for each song,” Alex “After we record our EP an ongoing investigation letter will be closed for a urday during the Pine son, drums; Jill Isenberg, said.