Here is my take on some of the lucky breaks we got in Boston last week:
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NOTE: This is NOT to in any way slight all the real work of police, fire and other law enforcement personel and medical first responders. I just was thinking about some of the things we know now that helped this week come swiftly to conclusion:
_After the bombs exploded, bystanders rushed in to save people hurt in the initial blast. People like Carlos Arredondo, saving the life of Jeff Bauman. This is even before official race medics and police and other responders get near to help the victims.
_victim Jeff Bauman wakes up and is able to give authorities a description of one of the two bombers (Black Hat)
_based on that description police are able to better analyze large amount of video of crowds and get photos of two possible suspects.
_with their photos 'out there' the brothers probably decide they have to flee sooner rather than later
_by coincidence they are at the convenience store (maybe to get gas and/or $$ from a cash machine that wouldn't have a camera) when MIT policeman show up for a robbery or disturbance call.
_the suspects shoot the campus cop dead and flee, realizing they still need cash and maybe a better, or someone else's, car.
_they carjack a Mercedes and take the driver ("Danny"
hostage and get him several times to try to withdraw cash for them, and try to get gas also. At the Shell Station on Western Ave it is "cash only" and the younger suspect goes in to pay. According to "Danny" when the older suspect puts down his gun for a moment to fiddle with the GPS, he does what he has been rehearsing in his mind: quickly unbuckle and open the door and slamming it as the suspect makes a grab for him...He gets away and calls 911.
_that guy (intentionally?) leaves his cell phone and the fancy car has a lojack type device also in the car allowing the police to track them as they head towards Watertown.
_the street shoot out happens. Luckily with over 200 shots fired one of the suspects is only wounded but not killed like the other.
_ with a night and next day of house to house searching and hundreds of tactical police and dogs they are not able to find the suspect, who has apparently run, wounded to the backyard of a house just outside of the search area and hidden inside the hull of a covered boat.
_ after the order to stay inside is lifted, a homeowner (Dave Henneberry)goes out to deal with the flapping cover and notices his boat cover has been messed with. He gets a ladder and looks under the cover (Knowing all that has been happening around him that day, THAT took guts!!) He sees a bloody body who luckily for him does not shoot him. He calls 911 and reports the bloody person in his boat.
-police surround the house and yard. The suspect doesn't give up, (police claim he shoots thru the cover but later find no gun on him) Police shoot many rounds into the boat. Maybe they are 'non-leathal' maybe not. The suspect is luckily NOT killed by all the gunfire...
_the suspect is made to surrender with the help of negotiators, alive , and taken off in custody to a hospital.
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My questions are:
What was the disturbance call? From whom? (We initially heard they robbed the 7-11, then heard that wasn't accurate.)
Why did they have two cars when they were confronted by police in Watertown? Why hijack the SUV guy if they already had a car?
I just read a piece that indicates the police in Watertown (I think it was one of the police officers "talking" were trying to handcuff the elder brother after shooting him when another officer yelled "look out!" and the younger brother was charging them with the SUV, running over and dragging his brother for a bit. Was that what killed the older brother -- his brother running over him, or the bullet (s?) that hit him?
if you can admit: "It does feel like the more I think I know right now, the more I realize I don't know much at all, and some of the things I thought I knew were just plain wrong."
has to keep his ipp-lay ipped-zay because he'll probably have to testify.
A number of people I have talked to, Watertown people, just thought it wouldn't be happening near them...that the manhunt had to be elsewhere, even though the whole town and several other towns were on 'lockdown'
If he hadn't stepped out, he wouldn't have seen the cover out of place on the boat.
He will be fired when they find out.....
past the child that died...
