Handguns, a rifle and at least six
bombs -- three of which exploded -- were
found at the scene early Friday after
officers first confronted the two Boston
Marathon bombing suspects in the
darkness of a residential street, the
Watertown, Massachusetts, police chief
said Saturday in an interview with CNN's
Wolf Blitzer.
A single officer was the first to encounter
the two cars that Tamerlan and Dzhokar
Tsarnaev were driving, just before 1 a.m.
Friday, Chief Edward Deveau said. One of
the vehicles was a Mercedes sport utility
vehicle the brothers carjacked earlier that
night, he said.
The chase that ensued eventually led to
David Henneberry's backyard, where
Dzhokar Tsarnaev had hidden on the floor
of Henneberry's boat. Tsarnaev was taken
into custody at about 8:45 p.m. Friday
evening.
But more than 19 hours earlier, the
odyssey was still in its early stages.
Before the officer could get backup, the
two cars stopped, and the brothers got
out.
"They jump out of the car and unload on
our police officer," Deveau said "They
both came out shooting -- shooting guns,
handguns. He's under direct fire, very
close by. He has to jam it in reverse and
try to get himself a little distance."
MIT cop shot to death in his squad car
Five other police officers,
including two who had just
finished their shifts, then
arrived at what Deveau called
a "very tight area" in the
middle of an intense
shootout.
"We estimate there was over
200 shots fired in a five- to
10-minute period," Deveau
said.
One of the brothers threw an
explosive at the officers.
They later discovered it was
a pressure cooker bomb,
similar to the ones used at
the marathon Monday, the
chief said.
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"We find the pressure cooker
embedded in the car down
the street, so there's a major
explosion during this gunfight
(with) my officers -- six of my
officers that I'm extremely
proud of," Deveau said.
The brothers also allegedly
threw other explosives at the
officers. "They were lighting
them and throwing them,"
Deveau said, adding they were "very
rough devices."
Two exploded and two did not. Police
later found a sixth explosive in one of the
cars.
At one point, the older brother, Tamerlan
Tsarnaev, came directly toward police,
Deveau said.
"He all of a sudden comes out from under
cover and just starts walking down the
street, shooting at our police officers,
trying to get closer," Deveau said. "Now,
my closest officer is five to 10 feet away,
and they're exchanging gunfire between
them. And he runs out of ammunition --
the bad guy -- and so one of my police
officers comes off the side and tackles
him in the street.
"We're trying to get him handcuffed.
There's two or three police officers
handcuffing him in the street -- the older
brother. At the same time, at the last
minute -- they obviously have tunnel
vision, it's a very, very stressful situation
-- one of them yells out, 'Look out!' and
here comes the black SUV, the carjacked
car, directly at them. They dive out of the
way, and he (the younger brother) drives
over his brother and drags him a short
distance down the street."
Tamerlan Tsarnaev was later pronounced
dead at the hospital. Officers then saw
that a transit police officer who arrived
after the first five was shot in the groin
during the firefight.
The younger brother drove off amid more
gunfire, Deveau said. He got two or three
streets away, with officers in pursuit, then
dumped the car and ran into the
darkness, he said.
Two police officers tended to their
wounded colleague, who had serious
bleeding.
"They just deserve all kinds of credit for
saving that gentleman's life up until this
point," said Deveau, who didn't name the
wounded officer. "Our prayers are still
with him and the family, because he's still
in a tough way. He lost a lot of blood at
the scene there, but we hope he can
make a recovery."
It was the fatal shooting of another
officer that kicked off the series of events
late Thursday night. Sean Collier, a
campus police officer at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
was responding to a loud disturbance call
when one of the brothers shot him in his
cruiser, Deveau said.
From there, the brothers allegedly
carjacked the Mercedes, forcing the driver
to withdraw money from an ATM. They
eventually let the victim go, but not
before telling him they were responsible
for both the marathon bombings and the
police officer's death, Deveau said.
Luckily for law enforcement, the victim's
cell phone remained in the SUV, allowing
police to determine the vehicle was in
Watertown and eventually catch up to it.
The manhunt for Dzhokar Tsarnaev lasted
all day Friday and brought much of Boston
to a standstill. Then, in the evening,
authorities finally got a tip: A Watertown
man told police someone was hiding in
his boat in the backyard, bleeding. It
turned out to be their suspect, Deveau
said.
"At that point, we had a couple of
thousand police officers on the scene.
The turnout was just incredible," he said.
A thermal image photograph indicated
that a person -- identified by police as
Tsarnaev -- was lying in the center of the
boat.
Officers could see Tsarnaev poking
through the tarp covering the boat, and
then a gunfire erupted, Deveau said.
Police used "flash-bangs," devices meant
to stun people with a loud noise, and
started 20 to 30 minutes of negotiation
with Tsarnaev.
Police had no idea whether he had
weapons or explosives with him, so they
repeatedly told him to stand up and lift
his shirt to show he wasn't wearing a
device, Deveau said.
An FBI negotiator was on the second floor
of the house looking down at the boat,
but he couldn't see Tsarnaev under the
tarp. A state police helicopter overhead
used a heat sensor to determine that
Tsarnaev was alive and moving, Deveau
said.
Eventually Tsarnaev stood up and lifted
his shirt for the officers.
"At that point, once we saw that, we felt
comfortable enough to send some officer
tactical equipment to grab him and pull
him away from the boat," Deveau said.
"He needed first aid, so he was
transported by ambulance into a Boston
hospital."
Investigators are still combing through all
the crime scenes, including the boat, so
Deveau said he didn't have details yet on
what items Tsarnaev may have had with
him when he was captured. And they still
don't know where the brothers allegedly
got the weapons, explosives and know-
how.
Police are confident, however, that there
are no other suspects, Deveau said.
"From what I know right now, these two
acted together and alone," he said. "As
far as this little cell and this little group, I
think we got our guys."
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C tech @ tz best. Mayb he ran ova hx brother mistakenly due to excess adrenline or he wanted to shut him up.....

Do not believe everything the FBI tells you.

@bill,
but you believe their perfomance
which is most applauding.

atleast some of watch few clips of the incident

There is something very strange about this incident.The story keeps changing by the day,My fingers are still very crossed.