In related developments Thursday, authorities are investigating whether an MBTA Transit Police officer wounded during the shoot-out was hit by friendly fire, State Police spokesman David Procopio confirmed Thursday.
Richard Donohue Jr., 33, was struck in the leg by a bullet, which authorities said remained embedded there. He was listed in serious but stable condition Thursday night at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge....
A law enforcement official said authorities suspected that Donohue was hurt by friendly fire because of the positioning of police at the chaotic scene in Watertown last Friday morning.
A law enforcement official said authorities suspected that Donohue was hurt by friendly fire because of the positioning of police at the chaotic scene in Watertown last Friday morning.
“It was the fog of war,” the official said. “There’s usually one cop and one suspect. This is unprecedented.”
A neighborhood resident, who said she saw Donohue fall as she watched from the window of her home, said in an interview Thursday that she was immediately concerned that Donohue and other police officers were in the line of fire of fellow officers.
“There were bullets flying all around,” said the witness, who asked not to be named. “There was concern about officers being in harm’s way. It was a war out there.”
A second law enforcement official said that whether Donohue was hit by friendly fire or not, officers were involved in a chaotic scene where they were trying to subdue a dangerous suspect.
Yeah, facts be damned. Makes you wonder who really killed Collier.
Yeah, facts be damned. Makes you wonder who really killed Collier.
The suspect was shooting at police, and police were trying to protect themselves and each other by firing back, officials said.
How could that be if he didn't have a gun?
How could that be if he didn't have a gun?
“It doesn’t change anything at the scene, friendly fire or not,” the official said. “These suspects set in motion a chain of events that required this kind of response.”
State Police investigators have recovered more than 250 shell casings as they try to determine the sequence, direction, and source of the gunfire during the shoot-out.
“Those streets in Watertown were the most complex crime scene in the history of the Massachusetts State Police,” Procopio said.
Also on Thursday, federal investigators resumed their search of a New Bedford landfill in connection with the bombing inquiry, said law enforce ment officials briefed on the investigation.
The landfill is several miles from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was a sophomore....
So what did they bring out with them and plant in the landfill? I don't want to spend too much time on this because it's become ludicrous, laughable, and time-consuming.
So what did they bring out with them and plant in the landfill? I don't want to spend too much time on this because it's become ludicrous, laughable, and time-consuming.
Watertown Police Chief Edward Deveau said Thursday that he was deeply frustrated his department, as well as hundreds of other officers, were unable to find Dzhokhar Tsarnaev even though he was less than a mile from the shooting scene.
Doesn't it seem obvious? He was hurt or drugged and someone put him in the spider hole, 'er, boat to be "found" later. We got 'em!
Doesn't it seem obvious? He was hurt or drugged and someone put him in the spider hole, 'er, boat to be "found" later. We got 'em!
As authorities later discovered, the wounded suspect was hiding in a boat just outside a 20-block search area.
Deveau said he recalled thinking: “ ‘I’m the police chief here in Watertown, and I’m not sure he’s gone.’ We missed him, you know, by a block, but it all worked out in the end, thank God.’’
A nearby Watertown resident echoed those thoughts.
“I was surprised they didn’t catch him sooner,” said Max Kerman, who lives on Spruce Street, a short distance from where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev abandoned the black Mercedes SUV. “The place where he was hiding is so close, about a quarter of a mile.”
As federal authorities pursue leads in the Marathon attack, Middlesex prosecutors are working to build a murder case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the shooting death of MIT police Officer Sean Collier.
“We are actively investigating, and we do expect to bring charges,” said Stephanie Guyotte, a spokeswoman for Middlesex District Attorney Marian T. Ryan.
Authorities have said the Tsarnaev brothers ambushed Collier while he sat in his police cruiser in Cambridge.
MIT Police Chief John DiFava said the Middlesex district attorney’s office would like to speak to anyone who witnessed the shooting or was near Vassar, Main, and Ames streets between 10 and 10:30 p.m. on April 18.
“I’m not sure if we have any witnesses,” said Dan Riviello, the Cambridge police spokesman. “There was a surveillance camera at MIT that captured some information.”
Footage from that camera shows the Tsarnaev brothers approaching Collier’s cruiser from behind, Riviello said. Authorities assigned to investigate Collier’s death have not interviewed the younger Tsarnaev, he added.
On Thursday, the Somerville Police Department asked the city’s Board of Aldermen to posthumously appoint Collier as a Somerville police officer....
Also on Thursday, reports that the alleged bombers had received state benefits prompted Governor Deval Patrick to say his office would review whether the state followed all eligibility rules in granting the aid. “I understand the public is curious,” Patrick said after the annual fish stocking at Jamaica Pond in Boston.
No. It means it was state-sponsored terrorism, and this is how these guys were getting money (as well as dealing pot, I'm told).
No. It means it was state-sponsored terrorism, and this is how these guys were getting money (as well as dealing pot, I'm told).
Earlier this week, a state health and human services spokesman said that Tamerlan Tsarnaev had so little income that he qualified for state assistance until 2012 and that both brothers received benefits through their parents when they were younger.
“There are good and bad people on and off public assistance,” Patrick said, “but it’s obviously concerning that people who have done this kind of damage to us all would have been on the public dole for some period of time.”
Some of the bad in this state are big banks, Hollywood, well-connected concerns and corporations, and the politicians and legi$lators that $erve them.
Some of the bad in this state are big banks, Hollywood, well-connected concerns and corporations, and the politicians and legi$lators that $erve them.
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Related:
"What you’re about to read is how it all ended. The denouement."
No, I'm not.
"The story of that night unfolds like a Tarantino movie, bursts of harrowing action laced with dark humor and dialogue absurd for its ordinariness"
That's because it was literally a script handed to the hard-working, intrepid investigators of the Amerikan ma$$ media. How fortunate.
UPDATE: Now we are being told they took a cab?
Related:
"What you’re about to read is how it all ended. The denouement."
No, I'm not.
"The story of that night unfolds like a Tarantino movie, bursts of harrowing action laced with dark humor and dialogue absurd for its ordinariness"
That's because it was literally a script handed to the hard-working, intrepid investigators of the Amerikan ma$$ media. How fortunate.
UPDATE: Now we are being told they took a cab?
