The new images, which were provided by Sgt. Sean Murphy, a tactical photographer with the Massachusetts State Police, were accompanied by a statement written by Murphy, who was angered by the magazine cover of Tsarnaev, arguing that it promoted an unfair image of the suspected terrorist.
"The truth is that glamorizing the face of terror is not just insulting to the family members of those killed in the line of duty, it also could be an incentive to those who may be unstable to do something to get their face on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine," wrote Murphy.
On Thursday evening Murphy told CNN that he had been placed on leave from his job pending a review next week. Earlier in the day, a police spokesman had told reports that the agency had not authorized publication of the photos Murphy had taken.
"Today's dissemination to Boston Magazine of photographs of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev and police activity related to his capture was not authorized by the Massachusetts State Police. The department will not release the photographs to media outlets. The State Police will have no further comment on this matter tonight."
Unlike the Rolling Stone cover, which takes what critics describe as a glamorous, stylized portrait of the youngest Tsarnaev brother - the eldest having been killed during a confrontation with police - Murphy's photographs depict Tsarnaev at the moment of his capture, bloodied and emerging from a boat in the residential backyard where police converged on him in Watertown, Massachusetts just prior to his surrender.
Most striking to what has become that key image is a sniper's clearly visible red laser target on Tsarnaev's forehead as he surrenders to authorities.
"This guy is evil," Murphy tells Boston Magazine . "This is the real Boston bomber. Not someone fluffed and buffed for the cover of Rolling Stone magazine."
According to Murphy, who is also responsible for photographing the funeral ceremonies of police officers, the August magazine cover is a sad reminder for victims of the bombings.
"It's irritated the wounds that will never heal - again. There is nothing glamorous in bringing more pain to a grieving family."
A number of Boston-area and US retail chains said on Wednesday that they would not stock the Rolling Stone edition out of concern from the developing controversy.
When he was in hospital he could not speak due to an injury to his throat. At first they said it was a self-inflicted gunshot wound, but when it turned out he was unarmed, they didn't bother to come up with a new cause. From the appearance of his throat in the photo, it would seem the throat wound was inflicted *after* he had been taken into custody. Oops!