Police say the brothers fatally shot a Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus police officer in Cambridge three days later before carjacking an SUV and then engaging in a shootout with police in nearby Watertown. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in the confrontation. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was later taken into custody after a citywide manhunt. Police say the brothers set off a number of bombs during the chase and shootout in the early hours of April 19 in Watertown, Mass.
Details of that carjacking emerged Friday. Fox said that Danny was scared for his life but made small talk and played up his foreign heritage to the brothers. Armed with another pressure-cooker explosive and five pipe bombs, the suspected terrorist brothers had also made a spur-of-the-moment decision last week to give the Big Apple a taste of their mayhem following the marathon attacks, New York City officials said on Thursday. The potentially deadly scheme fell apart when the Tsarnaev's realized the car they had hijacked was low on gas.
New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told interrogators at his hospital bed that he and his older brother spontaneously decided the night of April 18 to drive to New York and launch the attack. But when the Tsarnaev brothers stopped at a gas station on the outskirts of Boston, the carjacking victim they were holding hostage escaped and called police, Kelly said.
The carjacking victim, a year-old Chinese engineer whose American nickname was Danny, described his horrifying minute ordeal in an exclusive interview with the Boston Globe. He recalled rolling down the window of his Mercedes after hearing a tap in the window then finding one of the most wanted men in the country -- Tamerlan Tsarnaev -- sitting in the passenger seat, pointing a gun at him. The victim escaped at a gas station, when Dzhokhar Tsarnaev went inside to pay for gas, and Tamerlan put down the gun to use the car's navigation system.
Later that night, police intercepted the brothers in the blazing gunbattle that left Tamerlan Tsarnaev dead.
It is questionable whether the Tsarnaevs could have successfully made the mile trip to New York since they had become two of the most-wanted men in the world since the April 15 explosions that killed three people and injured more than Yet the news that the city may have narrowly escaped another terrorist attack still made New Yorkers shudder.
Authorities say Dzhokhar Tsarnaev could get the death penalty. Christina DiIorio-Sterling, a spokeswoman for U. Attorney Carmen Ortiz in Boston, would not comment on whether authorities plan to add charges based on the alleged plot to attack New York. Meanwhile in Massachusetts, the Middlesex County district attorney's office said it is building a murder case against Tsarnaev for the death of MIT police officer Sean Collier three days after the bombings.
As authorities began disclosing the suspects' plans and motives, the hospital-room questioning of Tsarnaev is generating concern about whether he should have been interrogated without first being told of his constitutional rights to stay silent and have a lawyer present — and, conversely, whether federal agents actually should have had more time with him before he was read his rights.
Tsarnaev faced 16 hours of questioning before he was advised of his Miranda rights, and investigators say he told them of his role in the two bombings near the Boston Marathon finish line.
He explained that he and his brother were angry about the U. Tsarnaev also described their plan to drive to New York and set off the remaining explosives there. In Boston, federal agents invoked an exception to the Miranda warnings that allows for questioning when public safety may be threatened.
But they knew their time with Tsarnaev in the absence of a lawyer would be limited. On Sunday, prosecutors filed a criminal complaint charging Tsarnaev with a role in the bombings. That action led directly to an improvised court hearing in the hospital the following morning at which U.
Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler told Tsarnaev he did not have to answer questions and could have a lawyer. He then stopped talking. The brothers are ethnic Chechens from Russia who came to the United States about a decade ago with their parents. Investigators have said it appears the brothers were angry about the U. Two government officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the investigation, said the CIA had Zubeidat Tsarnaeva's name added to the terror database along with that of her son Tamerlan after Russia contacted the agency in with concerns that the two were religious militants.
About six months earlier, the FBI investigated mother and son, also at Russia's request, one of the officials said. The FBI found no ties to terrorism. Previously U. People know me as a regular person, and I've never been mixed up in any criminal intentions, especially any linked to terrorism.
Tsarnaeva faces shoplifting charges in the U. Earlier this week, she said she has been assured by lawyers that she would not be arrested if she traveled to the U.
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