Boston Marathon Bombing Trial Update: 18 Jurors Selected as Trial Begins Nearly 2 Years Since Horror Terror Attack

Eighteen jurors – 10 women and eight men – have been selected to decide the fate of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev who is facing 30 charges in a Boston court in connection with the case. Six of those selected will serve as alternate jurors.

The trial began on Wednesday with opening statements from the prosecution and defense. The start of the trial came almost two years since the April 15, 2013 bombing that killed three civilians and injured more than 200 others.

Tsarnaev's lawyers tried but failed several times to ask for the trial to be held outside Boston, saying that the pre-trial publicity surrounding the case had tainted the jury pool. .

The U.S. government is seeking the death penalty for Tsarnaev, accusing him of using a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death, use of firearm, conspiracy to bomb a public place resulting in death, bombing of a public place, and malicious destruction of property resulting in injury and death.

The jurors in the trial, according to NBC News, include a man who works for the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources, a female senior executive assistant, a man who studied psychology and neuroscience, a female nurse at Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton, Massachusetts, and a man who works at a water department in a city near Boston.

Others are a woman who runs events, a female restaurant supervisor, a female fashion designer, a female legal executive assistant, a man who is a former auditor, a male telecommunications engineer for the Massachusetts General Hospital, a female parent with three children, a retired man, a male air traffic controller at Otis Air National Guard Base in Falmouth, a woman who works for Barnes & Noble, a male house painter, a retired female actuary and a female supervisor at a government agency.

More than 1,000 potential jurors were screened for the trial.

The Boston Marathon bombing resulted in the deaths of Krystle Marie Campbell, Martin Richard and Lingzi Lu. Officer Sean Collier was killed in an ambush days after the bombing.