Zooey Deschanel Identified as Boston Bombing Suspect in Closed-Captioning Gaffe

Blame the heat of the moment or a hard-to-spell name, but Fox affiliate apparently identified Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as actress Zooey Deschanel.

Though the purported gaffe could have been a hoax, Deschanel herself responded to the image, which circulated on Twitter as police were closing in on Tsarnaev Friday night:

Whoa! Epic closed captioning FAIL! “@joelmchale: Oh my RT @peterogburn: twitter.com/peterogburn/st…”

— zooey deschanel (@ZooeyDeschanel) April 20, 2013

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