This is perhaps the simplest, straight forward accounts of the events during the flight of the Tsarnaev brothers, particularly the shoot-out in which Tamerlan was killed. It is still unclear to me how Dzhokhar was able to jump in the car and get away during that episode, without being completely blown away by the police.
But what is confirmed is that he ran over his brother in his haste to get away.
(Reuters) – As a massive manhunt geared up for the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing on Thursday evening, the brothers wanted in the attack decided to take their chances by venturing into the streets near their home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Before the night was out, one of the young men was dead, crushed beneath his own hijacked getaway car, while the other cowered in a boat, bleeding heavily, as police closed in.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, and his brother Dzhokhar, 19, broke their cover hours after authorities released photographs of the suspects. It is unclear why they decided to remain in the area so long after Monday’s attack.
The evening began to unravel when the brothers encountered Sean Collier, a 26-year-old police officer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, according to accounts by police and government agencies.
Collier had been responding to a call of a disturbance at the university’s Cambridge campus. Whether that call was connected to the brothers is unclear. Earlier reports that the pair had robbed a nearby convenience store were later withdrawn by the authorities.