Video shows bomb suspect dodging blast, Massachusetts governor says

Associated Press | 13/04/21 12:02 PM ET

AP Photo/Bob Leonard, FileThis Monday, April 15, 2013 file photo provided by Bob Leonard shows second from right, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was dubbed Suspect No. 1 and third from right, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, who was dubbed Suspect No. 2 in the Boston Marathon bombings by law enforcement. This image was taken approximately 10-20 minutes before the blast. Since Monday, Boston has experienced five days of fear, beginning with the marathon bombing attack, an intense manhunt and much uncertainty ending in the death of one suspect and the capture of the other. 

 

All day long, the news reports asked the same question: why? Even as the details of their lives started to trickle in, the question remained: why did they do it? What could have turned these two young men into mass murderers? They were Chechens, but had spent most of the last decade in America. One posted extremist Islamic material online. The other wrestled for his school team. Outwardly they seemed assimilated into the surrounding culture, and yet the older one claimed “I don’t have a single American friend, I don’t understand them.” The word in many reports was “alienated.”
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WASHINGTON — Surveillance video from the Boston Marathon attack shows one suspect dropping his backpack and calmly walking away from it before the bomb inside it exploded, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said Sunday.

The video clearly puts 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev at the scene of the attack, Patrick said on NBC.

“It does seem to be pretty clear that this suspect took the backpack off, put it down, did not react when the first explosion went off and then moved away from the backpack in time for the second explosion,” Patrick said. “It’s pretty clear about his involvement and pretty chilling, frankly.”
He added, however, that he hasn’t viewed all the tapes but had been briefed by law enforcement about them.

Investigators have determined the bombs were fashioned from pressure cookers packed with explosives, nails and ball bearings and hidden in black backpacks. Three people were killed and more than 180 injured when the two bombs exploded Monday about four hours into the race.

Tsarnaev was captured Friday after being pulled bloody and wounded from a tarp-covered boat in a suburban Boston backyard. He is being guarded by armed officers while he recovers at a Boston hospital. He is in serious condition and hasn’t been able to communicate with investigators.
His 26-year-old brother and alleged accomplice, Tamerlan, died earlier Friday after a gunbattle with police.

The brothers are also suspected of killing an MIT police officer Thursday and severely injuring a transit officer.

Handout    This thermal image released by the Massachusetts State Police Air Wing, shows the boat and Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on April 19, 2013. After a massive manhunt that shutdown the Boston area, Tsarnaev, bleeding from gunshot wounds, surrendered to authorities and was taken to a hospital where he is in critical condition, according to US media reports.

 

Patrick said Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation” that law enforcement officials believe the immediate threat ended when police killed Tamerlan Tsarnaev and captured Dzhokhar.

The governor said he has no idea why someone would deliberately harm “innocent men, women and children in the way that these two fellows did.”

On Saturday, Patrick appeared on the field at Fenway Park with dozens of local and state police before the Boston Red Sox’s first home game since the bombings.