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 Tsarnaev, 21, is accused of killing three people and injuring 264
with a pair of homemade pressure-cooker bombs at the race's crowded
finish line on April 15, 2013, and with fatally shooting a police
officer three days later as he and 26-year-old brother Tamerlan
tried to flee. Tamerlan died hours after the shooting, following a
gunfight with police in Watertown, Massachusetts.
His lawyers opened the trial early this month by bluntly admitting
the defendant committed all the crimes of which he is accused, but
contending Tamerlan was the driving force behind the attack with
Dzhokhar going along out of a sense of subservience.
Witnesses this week have detailed jihadist writings found on
Tsarnaev's computers and evidence related to a trip to a New
Hampshire shooting range a month before the attack as signs that he
was a motivated and willing participant.
 Kimberly Franks, a supervisory agent with the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, is due back on the witness stand on Wednesday. On
Tuesday she testified that investigators recovered a $62.10 receipt
from Dick's Sporting Goods for a pellet gun, as well a box of BB
pellets when they searched Tsarnaev's dorm room at the University of
Massachusetts at Dartmouth.
Investigators recovered a BB gun as well as a rusty 9 mm pistol on
the street in Watertown where the Tsarnaevs fought a heated battle
with police three days after the attack.
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Agents also recovered the white Polo Ralph Lauren cap that
prosecutors say Tsarnaev wore to the marathon, Franks said. When the
FBI first released surveillance video of the Tsarnaevs near the
marathon finish line, they did not know the brothers' names and
identified them only as "white hat" and "black hat."
That release of photos, and a plea for the public's help in
identifying the suspects, prompted the duo to shoot Massachusetts
Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier, in an
unsuccessful attempt to steal his gun as they prepared to flee the
city.
The bombing killed restaurant manager Krystle Campbell, 29, graduate
student Lingzi Lu, 23, and 8-year-old Martin Richard.
(Editing by Scott Malone and James Dalgleish)
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