Reading Residents and Runners React to Capture of Second Bomber

After a terrible week of tragedy and tears, Reading residents are ready to gain closure. That closure started with the capture of the second bomber. 

Marathon runner Tammy Stapleton said she felt a mixture of feelings, but mostly relief when she heard that the second suspect had been captured. She was relieved to know that he wasn't "out there anymore terrorizing the people of Boston and that he wasn't able to hurt anyone else."

She was happy that he was captured alive, she said.

"I wanted him taken alive because I feel like the people of the city and the world deserve some answers from him," she said.

Now that the second suspect is captured, she and others can start the healing process, she said.

"Each day is a little easier," she said. "I can tell my story now without breaking down in tears."

She feels like she won the marathon, she said, because she left with her life and her family.

As for the fate of the second bomber, she hopes "that justice is served and that he gets what he deserves."

We asked residents how they were feeling about the capture on Facebook Friday evening, and here is what they had to say:

Danica Letarte Medeiros said, "Feel so free! So grateful for a tireless police force and safety officials. Ready for my Dunkin Donuts in the a.m."

"Amazing, but yet still so sad for those who had lives taken from them," Leigh Loftus said.