Boston Bombing aftermath, any similarity to the Lincoln assassination aftermath?

[BettyO]

The differences I see between Powell and the Boston Bombing suspects are that these two young men apparently DID NOT CARE WHO THEY WOUNDED OR KILLED - children, women - they simply didn't care. They were out to do as much damage as they possibly could.

Powell would not have killed or wounded women and children - his own words, as he told Dr. Gillette, being "Men do not make war on women." He went out of his way to avoid Fanny Seward. I think Powell panicked at Seward's house and did not know how to handle men coming at him from all sides in what turned into a hand to hand affair. Sure, he probably would have killed Fred Seward had his gun not missed fire - but I feel somewhat positive that he went there not even expecting to be confronted with young Seward, but apparently thought he could march straight up to Seward's room and dispatch him and him alone. The whole affair turned into a deadly "Donnybrook".... but to compare Powell to the Boston bombing suspects? In a way, similar in that they were both very young, and seemingly had a normal childhood; loved and respected by family and peers, but there the similarity ends.... JMO