Re: Two explosions at Boston marathon finish line
Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 5:55 pm
http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/26/us/boston ... index.html
The carjacking victim had left his cell phone in the SUV, and police were using it to monitor the vehicle's every movement. It was now shortly after 12:30 a.m. Friday.
Many Watertown police officers had ended their shift at midnight and were headed home when they heard a possible suspect in the MIT shooting was in their vicinity.
"All they knew at the time was this was related to the MIT murder over there," Watertown Police Chief Edward Deveau told CNN.
So Danny Boy had told them that the car jackers had confessed to shooting the cop, but not that they had confessed to doing the bombings? Does that make any sense to anyone here?
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Andrew Kitzenberg lives in a three-story home at 62 Laurel, the location where the gun battle began. He saw two men crouched behind the SUV, opening fire on police.
One officer radioed dispatch: "They have explosives and grenades." Loud pops could be heard in the background.
"Shots fired! Shots fired!" he said.
Kitzenberg ran upstairs to his third-floor bedroom and peeked out a window, capturing the chaotic scene on his phone. At 12:55 a.m., he tweeted, "Shoot out outside my room in Watertown. 62 Laurel st."
The suspects grabbed a backpack, apparently from the Honda, pulled out a pressure-cooker bomb and placed it on the ground. An explosion rocked the neighborhood, and the brothers kept unloading on cops.
"Shoot out with 5 minutes of gun fire and pressure cooker bomb," Kitzenberg tweeted at 12:57 a.m.
He followed quickly with another tweet at 1 a.m.: "PD claiming IED's on the street. Everyone stay off of laurel st."
"I actually saw them light the bomb and I saw a spark from it. As soon as I saw that spark I hit the ground," he recalled.
Up to that point, Kitzenberg believed he was looking at an intense gun battle related to the MIT killing. "When they started using explosives, then I knew it was something much more significant and pretty much knew who I was looking at," he told CNN.
OK, so this dude tweeted that the brothers had exploded a pressure cooker bomb in real time, and then saw them "light" the bomb. Weird how they did not need to "light" the bombs that went off at the Boston Marathon.
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At one point, one of the police officers shifted his cruiser into gear as a diversionary tactic, and it rolled toward the two shooters. They fired round after round, blowing out the Ford SUV's back window and side window.
"I hope the chief's not mad at me. The cruiser's a little bit damaged," the cop told his captain.
Nice sentiments, Dirty Harry.
The brothers tossed out five pipe bombs; two or three exploded. After the final blast, a shroud of smoke covered the street and an armed Tamerlan ran toward police, shooting as he approached.
"He starts closing in on one of my officers, and they're literally about 10 feet away from each other, exchanging gunfire," Chief Deveau said. "Then, he runs out of ammunition."
Neighbor Kitzenberg gave a similar account: "He was running down the street, still engaging in gunfire. ... As he got closer to the officers, he was taken down."
Andrew Kitzenberg is now a person of interest.
The carjacking victim had left his cell phone in the SUV, and police were using it to monitor the vehicle's every movement. It was now shortly after 12:30 a.m. Friday.
Many Watertown police officers had ended their shift at midnight and were headed home when they heard a possible suspect in the MIT shooting was in their vicinity.
"All they knew at the time was this was related to the MIT murder over there," Watertown Police Chief Edward Deveau told CNN.
So Danny Boy had told them that the car jackers had confessed to shooting the cop, but not that they had confessed to doing the bombings? Does that make any sense to anyone here?
...
Andrew Kitzenberg lives in a three-story home at 62 Laurel, the location where the gun battle began. He saw two men crouched behind the SUV, opening fire on police.
One officer radioed dispatch: "They have explosives and grenades." Loud pops could be heard in the background.
"Shots fired! Shots fired!" he said.
Kitzenberg ran upstairs to his third-floor bedroom and peeked out a window, capturing the chaotic scene on his phone. At 12:55 a.m., he tweeted, "Shoot out outside my room in Watertown. 62 Laurel st."
The suspects grabbed a backpack, apparently from the Honda, pulled out a pressure-cooker bomb and placed it on the ground. An explosion rocked the neighborhood, and the brothers kept unloading on cops.
"Shoot out with 5 minutes of gun fire and pressure cooker bomb," Kitzenberg tweeted at 12:57 a.m.
He followed quickly with another tweet at 1 a.m.: "PD claiming IED's on the street. Everyone stay off of laurel st."
"I actually saw them light the bomb and I saw a spark from it. As soon as I saw that spark I hit the ground," he recalled.
Up to that point, Kitzenberg believed he was looking at an intense gun battle related to the MIT killing. "When they started using explosives, then I knew it was something much more significant and pretty much knew who I was looking at," he told CNN.
OK, so this dude tweeted that the brothers had exploded a pressure cooker bomb in real time, and then saw them "light" the bomb. Weird how they did not need to "light" the bombs that went off at the Boston Marathon.
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At one point, one of the police officers shifted his cruiser into gear as a diversionary tactic, and it rolled toward the two shooters. They fired round after round, blowing out the Ford SUV's back window and side window.
"I hope the chief's not mad at me. The cruiser's a little bit damaged," the cop told his captain.
Nice sentiments, Dirty Harry.
The brothers tossed out five pipe bombs; two or three exploded. After the final blast, a shroud of smoke covered the street and an armed Tamerlan ran toward police, shooting as he approached.
"He starts closing in on one of my officers, and they're literally about 10 feet away from each other, exchanging gunfire," Chief Deveau said. "Then, he runs out of ammunition."
Neighbor Kitzenberg gave a similar account: "He was running down the street, still engaging in gunfire. ... As he got closer to the officers, he was taken down."
Andrew Kitzenberg is now a person of interest.