04-22-2013, 09:44 AM
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The brothers were outside the Mercedes as they challenged the police. Tamerlan was wearing a suicide bomber?s belt but did not have time to detonate it. Hit by several bullets, he crumpled to the ground.
Dzhokhar jumped back into the car, put it into reverse and backed over his brother as he sped off. Tamerlan died in hospital after being wheeled into the operating room in handcuffs.
With officers tending to their wounded comrades and unable to put up a cordon, Dzhokhar abandoned the car and disappeared on foot, probably creeping through gardens until he found refuge in Henneberry?s boat.
More than a million people were told to stay indoors by Deval Patrick, the Massachusetts governor, in an unprecedented lockdown of Boston, Watertown and neighbouring towns.
As officers went door to door in Watertown, the subway closed down, buses and taxis were suspended and an eerie silence descended over the streets. A Red Sox game was postponed, as was a Symphony Hall concert.
By 6pm Dzhokhar had not been found and an air of gloom began to envelop the area. ?We cannot continue to lock down an entire city or an entire state,? Patrick admitted. Ed Davis, the Boston police commissioner, conceded that ?we don't know where he went?.
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