Tsarnaevs’ captive recounts fears, his pivotal escape

By Milton J. Valencia and Patricia Wen GLOBE STAFF MARCH 12, 2015

After roughly 90 terrifying minutes as a captive of the Boston Marathon bombers, Dun Meng saw his chance. One of the men who had carjacked him had gone inside a Cambridge convenience store. The other was fiddling with a GPS device, his gun tucked into the car door next to him. Meng calculated his escape.

He counted down in his mind: 1, 2, 3, 4. . .

“This was the most terrifying moment, the most difficult decision in my life,” he told a federal jury in South Boston Thursday. “I dashed onto the street. I could feel he was trying to grab me.”

Meng, who made it safely to another convenience store across the street, recounted his ordeal on the sixth day of testimony in the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who faces the death penalty for his role in the bombings and the killing of an MIT police officer.

Meng’s escape was a turning point in the manhunt for the bombers. Once they fled in Meng’s Mercedez Benz, authorities used the car’s tracking system to trace them to Dexter Avenue in Watertown. Police from several agencies descended on the brothers there, and a firefight ensued.

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