All language subtitles for How.It.Really.Happened.S05E08_English

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MacLellan:
I couldn't believe my eyes --

[ Gunshots ]
the kid firing right through
the front windshield.

[ Gunshot ]

Armstrong: They open
the back of the S.U.V.

and they just start deploying

[ Shattering ]
all of their unexploded bombs
in Watertown.

MacLellan:
We had no idea that they were
the Boston Marathon bombers.

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I'm Hill Harper.

The April 15th, 2013,
bombing of the Boston Marathon

was the first terrorist attack
on American soil since 9/11.

Three innocent lives
were taken that day --

Lingzi Lu, Krystle Campbell,
and Martin Richard.

The city of Boston,
and the country,

wanted whomever did this
brought to justice.

Three days after the attack,
at 5:00 p.m. on that Thursday,

law enforcement released
images of two men

only known as
"Black Hat" and "White Hat."

Within a matter of hours,
these two brothers,

Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev,
would reveal themselves,

unleashing
a murderous crime spree

that would leave
everyone reeling.

Here's how it really happened.

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Blitzer: A pair of bombings
rocked the finish line

at the historic Boston Marathon.

[ Explosion ]

Man:
I ran straight ahead.

[ Screaming ]

I didn't know
what was happening.

Then the second bomb
goes off 12 seconds later,

100 yards down, in front
of the Forum Restaurant.

Reporter:
We have some breaking news.

It was very chaotic.

Man:They said it was
a horrific scene down there.

There was pools of blood.

There was people on fire.

All you saw, maybe 30 feet
across of just carnage.

Armstrong: Rebekah Gregory
was near the finish line.

Gregory: A gentleman tied
a tourniquet on my leg.

I remember just begging
the people in the ambulance,

"Put me out of my misery,
because I can't handle this."

[ Indistinct chatter ]

And then the question became,
"Who did this?"

On Wednesday, April 17th,

we got our first really
big break in the case.

We have the video
of the two bombers,

but we don't know who they are.

Today, we are enlisting
the public's help

to identify the two suspects.

They had a press conference,
and they released the photos.

So far, they are known only
as Suspect One and Suspect Two.

Hughes: Police hoped that when
they released these images,

the public would recognize
these men, call immediately,

and they would arrest
these two suspects.

And that's not what happened.

Chakravarty:
Unfortunately, the bombers
saw themselves on the screen,

and they decided to go on to
the next phase of their plans.

The brothers realized
they had one gun.

They knew that if they were
in a confrontation,

they would need two guns.

Sean Collier was a great guy,
by all accounts.

Evans: Sean was a 27-year-old,
bright kid who,

all he ever wanted to be
was a police officer.

Chakravarty: And eventually,
he was hired as a police officer

at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, MIT.

He was really well-liked
on campus.

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So, Officer Collier
was on his regular patrol

on the MIT campus
on the night of the 18th.

Chakravarty: He had parked
his patrol car on the campus,

looking out over one of
the principal intersections.

You see two shadowy figures
come up behind the cruiser,

and they approach
the driver's side.

The door opens,
and Sean was shot five times --

three times in the head.

We believe Sean Collier was
targeted to obtain his weapon.

They shot Sean while trying to

rip his service weapon
out of his holster.

Sean was just a guy out there
wanting to do the right thing,

and, unfortunately, you know,

these two individuals
set upon him.

Sean Collier fought them --
literally -- until he died.

He saved lives by not
giving them a second gun.

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A sergeant shows up and finds
Sean Collier assassinated.

I remember when
the news report came out

about the MIT police officer
being shot,

and that just
seemed so unusual.

The developing story
out of Boston --

a campus police officer
who was shot

at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology

just a short time ago has died.

That first couple of hours,

law enforcement
did not at all think

that it was connected to
the Boston Marathon bombing.

As horrific as
Sean Collier's death was,

that was just the beginning
that night for these brothers.

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[ Sirens wail ]

To recap, at roughly
10:30 this evening,

there was a shooting on
the campus of MIT in Cambridge.

One police officer was killed.

Wedge: So, after
they shot Sean Collier,

the two brothers made their way
over towards Cambridge,

which is right next to Boston.

Chakravarty:
They decide that they
need to find

an alternate
means of transportation --

their car may have been
identified.

They drive across the river,

and they see a brand-new
Mercedes S.U.V.

Hughes:
Dun Meng, who goes by "Danny,"
is on the side of the road

because he wants to answer
a text message without driving.

All of a sudden,
Tamerlan Tsarnaev comes over,

taps on
the passenger-side window.

Danny rolled down the window
to hear what he had to say.

Danny says Tamerlan reached in,
unlocked the car,

got in the car,
held a gun to his head,

and said, "Drive."

Armstrong: Rather than
a straight-up carjacking,

they actually end up
taking Danny with them.

They took him through various
towns for quite some time.

Reporter:
Prosecutors say the brothers
drove Meng to a bank,

where Dzhokhar used
Meng's ATM card

to withdraw $800 in cash.

Douglas: During the course
of the carjacking,

both Tamerlan and Dzhokhar
basically confess,

telling the driver
that they were

the individuals that did
the Boston Marathon bombing.

Reporter: The brothers had
allegedly made spontaneous plans

to go to New York

and set off more explosives
in Times Square.

Armstrong: They're asking him
a lot of questions

about how far the car
can go on a tank of gas.

They want to know
if the car has a GPS.

Through this entire encounter,
Danny is thinking to himself,

"How do I escape?
Can I

He definitely assumes
he's going to die that night.

Eventually, in order
to go to New York,

they had to get gas,

so they pulled into
a gas station in Cambridge.

Armstrong: Dzhokhar goes into
the convenience store

where they parked
to buy snacks.

Hughes: There's surveillance
video of him walking around.

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Armstrong:
And in that time, Danny is
in the car with Tamerlan

thinking to himself,
"How do I get out of here?"

Chakravarty: The older brother
puts down the gun.

It was in that moment

Danny decides he's got
to make his move.

Dun Meng takes a breath,
counts down in his head,

"3, 2, 1,"
and bursts out of the car.

He says he feels Tamerlan's hand
reach for him.

It's really amazing that
he wasn't shot and killed.

Tamerlan figures
that Danny's a lost cause,

so he runs back into
the convenience store

where his younger brother is,
tells him, "We've got to go,"

and then they take off
down Memorial Drive.

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Danny runs across the street.

Literally across the street
from this one gas station

is another gas station.

Reporter:
Watch as Meng frantically
tries locking the door,

begging the confused clerk
to call 911.

Fearing the Tsarnaev brothers
will follow,

he hides in a storeroom.

Dun Meng ended up being
someone that was pivotal to

police being able
to find these guys.

Armstrong: The bombers had asked
him if the car had a GPS,

and his answer to them
was, "No."

When police arrive,
Danny tells them the truth.

He says to the police, "Not
only does my car have a GPS,

let's get on the phone
to Mercedes right now.

I have the code
that's going to allow you

to track that GPS
starting right now."

And that's exactly
what they did.

That car was ultimately
discovered here in Watertown.

And that was the beginning
of a crazy night in Watertown.

[ Gunshots ]

MacLellan:They're shooting!
They're shooting at us!

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MacLellan:
We were out on patrol.

There was a tone over the radio,

and they had said,
"Anybody in the East End,

we have a car that was
carjacked at gunpoint,

and we're tracking the vehicle
in real time,"

and then gave the location
of the vehicle.

So, I think you need to keep
in mind that at this point,

when the call comes in
to Watertown police

about a carjacking --

Chakravarty: It was
not accompanied by a message

that it is being operated
by the Boston Marathon bombers.

I was thinking,
"Couple of kids stole a car.

Either they're gonna take off
and we're gonna have a chase,

or they were gonna, you know --

they were gonna give up,
and that was gonna be it."

But I wasn't expecting
what happened.

Officer Joe Reynolds responds
to the scene, spots the S.U.V.

Deslauriers:
After he pulled up behind,

the Tsarnaev brothers
jump out of the car

and began blasting away at
the Watertown police officers.

[ Gunshot ]

MacLellan:
I couldn't believe my eyes.

The kid firing right through
the front windshield

of Officer Reynolds.

As I jumped out,

Officer Reynolds
started firing his weapon.

It was very chaotic.

I'm still thinking that
this is a carjacking.

It still didn't
make sense to me.

The two brothers start going
through their entire arsenal.

Houses were hit with bullets,
cars were hit with bullets.

Woman: Gunfire going on
down the street.

[ Gunshots ]

Armstrong: They open
the back of the S.U.V.,

which they've loaded with
all of their unexploded bombs,

and they just start deploying
everything in Watertown.

MacLellan: I saw
the motion of him throwing it,

and I was thinking,
"What's that, a branch?"

It made the metal
ting-ting-ting...

[ Explosion ]

...and when that blew up,
I mean, it was intense.

One of the brothers
throws a pressure cooker bomb.

When it explodes, the pressure
cooker is ultimately

embedded in
the side of a vehicle.

This is nuts.
Now other cops are showing up.

[ Gunfire ]

We had a kid that
had been arrested

a couple of times
in the town,

and he came out
three different times.

He goes, "Johnny,
do you need anything?

You need anything?"

I kept saying,
"Get back in the house."

The third time, he goes,
"Johnny, do you need anything?"

I said, "Unless you got
any .40-cal ammo,

get back in that house."

When I arrived,
I parked on another street.

So this is kind of
like a standstill --

nobody's retreating,
nobody's advancing --

so I decided I was
gonna flank them,

so I went through
three or four backyards,

going fence over fence
over fence.

McPhee:
He comes up beside.

Pugliese: I drew my pistol...
[ Gunshot ]

...and I fired
three or four times.

Tamerlan realized where I was,

came running up the street
shooting at me.

We were about six feet apart,
shooting at each other.

Tamerlan was shot
multiple times.

He just wasn't reacting.
He was so high on adrenaline.

Tamerlan shot
until his weapon was empty.

The house behind me --
I have a photograph of it.

There's half a dozen
bullet holes around me,

and he missed me,
all those bullets.

Sergeant Pugliese tackles him,

and the other police officers
get over him

to try to subdue
and arrest Tamerlan.

MacLellan:
I tried to knock him out --

pistol-whipping him
at least a dozen times,

knocking his teeth out,
breaking his nose.

As they're in the process
of doing that,

his younger brother,
Dzhokhar,

hops back into the carjacked
S.U.V. and guns it.

They were estimating
he was driving anywhere

from 30 to 40 miles an hour

and heading
right straight for his brother

and the two or three
police officers

on top of him,
trying to subdue him.

I grabbed Tamerlan by the belt,
trying to drag him

out of the path of the car,
and I just dropped back,

and I felt the breeze
of the vehicle go by my face.

And the only one he hit
was his own brother.

I saw the front wheels
go over him.

Tamerlan bounced up and down
a couple of times

between the pavement
and the undercarriage,

and then Dzhokhar crashed
into one of our cruisers.

The force of that impact
dislodges Tamerlan.

McLellan: And we have one
in custody, dying.

[ Helicopter blades whirring ]

Pugliese: The typical gunfight
involving a police officer

lasts only a couple of seconds

with maybe a half a dozen
bullets being fired.

The entire gunfight lasted
somewhere around

seven or eight minutes,

and I think there was
400 or 500 rounds of ammunition

fired between both sides.

Armstrong: Dzhokhar ends up
taking off into the night.

We know that he's believed to be
armed and very dangerous,

and he's at large
somewhere in Boston.

...with dark, curly hair
and a gray hoodie.

The drama, the chaos
is not over yet.

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McPhee:
When they release these photos

of Suspect Black Hat,
Suspect White Hat,

everyone in the nation
is looking for these guys.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was
a student at a small college

south of Boston,

University of Massachusetts
at Dartmouth.

There were three individuals
at UMass Dartmouth

who were friends with Dzhokhar.

His friends saw the pictures,

and they joked that they thought
it looked like Dzhokhar.

They texted him,
essentially saying,

"Wow, that photo really
looks like you."

And Dzhokhar writes back
something to the effect of,

"Better not text me, lol."

Dzhokhar was
kind of cagey about it

and alluded to some stuff
that was in his room.

Armstrong: And, he says,
"Take whatever you want."

So those three guys
go into Dzhokhar's dorm room,

grab a backpack.

They take his computer.

They take some unexploded
fireworks, a thumb drive.

Deslauriers: Instead of
doing the right thing,

these three gentlemen
took evidence

and threw it out in a dumpster
near their residence.

They didn't, apparently, know
about anything in advance,

but they also
didn't come forward.

Armstrong:
That was the moment.

That was the moment where
any of those three young men

could have called police
and said,

"We're pretty sure
we know who it is.

It's our friend.
Come down here."

And that would have changed
the course of events.

Perhaps could have
prevented Watertown

and saved the life
of Sean Collier.

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Welcome back to
"How It Really Happened."

Just before dawn
on Friday, April 19th,

investigators knew
the two men involved

in a violent shootout
in Watertown, Massachusetts,

were the Boston Marathon
bombers,

but they still didn't know
who they actually were.

After being run over
by the S.U.V.,

the older brother was taken
to a hospital,

where he was declared dead.

The FBI immediately dispatched
an agent to the hospital.

They used a small, portable
electronic device

called "Quick Capture"
to get his fingerprints

and run it against
their database.

For the first time,

they knew the name of
the older bomber, Black Hat,

was Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

But what they found out next
shocked them all.

McCabe: Early on that Friday
morning, I remember that

Director Mueller's
chief of staff

walked in the room and said,

"We had a guardian
on Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

We had investigated him
in the not-too-distant past."

It was discovered that
two years earlier, 2011,

he had come on the FBI's radar.

And I can tell you, it is like
the worst punch in the stomach

that you could possibly get.

It is the fear that we all have
that we might have missed

an opportunity
to stop a terrorist attack.

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We had received a tip

from the
Russian intelligence service

that Tamerlan and his mother
were strong believers of Islam

and might be interested
in extremist philosophies.

We took that information,
and as a result of it,

opened up
an assessment on Tamerlan.

They came to talk to us,
and they came --

they talked to Tamerlan.

The Boston field office
didn't uncover any evidence

that they were or had been
involved in extremist activity.

Not with me, but I
don't know about Tamerlan.

The FBI ended up concluding
that Tamerlan,

at that time, was not a threat

and so they closed
the investigation on him.

What they're looking into
right now

is whether they were radicalized
here in the United States,

and if they were, why?

Deslauriers: In 2012, Tamerlan
traveled back to Dagestan,

we believe, to get
his passport renewed,

and he returned several months
later, in July of 2012.

Shortly after Tamerlan
returned to the United States,

all indications are that
he had gone farther

down the path
of radicalization at that point.

Wedge:
He's grown a beard,

he's changing his style
of dress.

McCabe: He started attending
mosque more regularly,

and was apparently asked
to leave his local mosque

because he had a habit of
shouting out during sermon.

Very likely,
Dzhokhar and Tamerlan

started spending
more time together.

And their views became
more and more radical

as time went on.

McCabe:
Dzhokhar later told us

that he and Tamerlan
had been radicalized

by looking at extremist
material on the internet.

Armstrong:
One of the articles that
the men had on their computers

was "How to Make a Bomb
in the Kitchen of Your Mom."

The question of how these
two young men became radicalized

is a really complex one.

Deslauriers: Our investigation
determined that Zubeidat,

the mother
of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar,

may have had a role in pushing
them towards radicalization.

Wedge: We like to call
the mother the Lady Macbeth

of this tragedy, really.

Their mother started believing
in a lot of radical ideas,

and she started
espousing them to Tamerlan.

Cullison:
She told me that she thought
that maybe her sons were

getting into drugs and girls
and that sort of things,

and so, she brought religion
into the household

in order to tame them.

Zubeidat:
I was the one who told him that,
"I don't like you drinking."

So one day I told him,
you know,

"This is not
the Islamic thing, Tamerlan.

You need to know
that you are a Muslim."

Because I was afraid
that he's gonna go

really under the bad influence.

Their mother was
absolutely defiant

in the face of the attacks.

[ Explosion ]

Cullison:
The mother had insisted
that this was just a setup by

various unseen forces
who had done this.

Wedge:
I think that they believed a lot
of the anti-American rhetoric

that they were taught
by their mother,

and I think that they thought

they were part
of a global jihad.

Kaye: After the Boston bombing,
investigators discovered

that it may not have
been the first time

that Tamerlan killed someone.

Reporter:
It happened on this quiet street
in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Armstrong:
On September 11th of 2011,

there was this absolutely grisly
triple murder

in Waltham, Massachusetts,
a suburb of Boston.

Hughes: The three men
who were killed

were killed in a particularly
gruesome way --

throats slashed, their bodies
sprinkled with marijuana.

The theory is that the victims
knew their killers.

It remains an unsolved mystery

until the aftermath
of the Boston Marathon.

Not long after
the Boston Marathon bombings,

Tamerlan's name came up
in connection

with that murder investigation.

Reporter:
One of the victims was close
friends with Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

An FBI agent and two
Massachusetts state troopers

went down to Florida

to interview an individual
named Ibragim Todashev.

Todashev was
an associate of Tamerlan's.

McCabe:
During the interview, which took
place in Todashev's residence,

Todashev confessed to

committing the triple homicide
with Tamerlan.

But then this already
very bizarre story

gets even more bizarre.

Deslauriers:
Todashev was halfway through
writing a confession

when he attacked the FBI agent
who was interviewing him.

McCabe: He stood up from behind
the table he was sitting at,

grabbed a large samurai sword
off the wall behind him,

and attempted
to kill the FBI agent,

who quickly reacted,
drew his weapon,

and fired on Todashev,
killing him.

So, unfortunately,
that's all we know

about that particular story.

But that was just
a ridiculous, dramatic twist

to think that Tamerlan,

responsible for
the Boston Marathon bombings,

might also have been
responsible for

this grisly triple murder
in Waltham.

At 6:00 a.m., the plastics team
would come in,

and they'd have
these big tweezers

that they would pick out
the shrapnel in my legs --

thousands of pieces of shrapnel.

♪♪

This is "CNN Breaking News."

Good morning. Our breaking
news coverage continues.

Berman: And it has been
a night of murder,

been a night of gunfire,

reports of explosions
rocking the Boston area.

[ Helicopter blades whirring ]

So, as morning was coming,

no one knew where
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was.

Investigators
found the stolen S.U.V.

about a half-mile away from
where that shootout occurred.

It had been abandoned.

Alben:
What we're looking for right now
is the white-capped individual

who was involved in Monday's
bombing of the Boston Marathon.

The governor ordered
a Shelter-in-Place.

Wedge: They shut down the entire
public transit system in Boston,

shut down all the highways.

They told people not to go
to work that day.

Burnett: All Boston-area
schools are closed,

businesses are closed,

public transportation
is shut down.

Wedge:
And it was basically martial law

while they tried
to find this young man.

They do believe
he could be very dangerous

'cause of the access
to explosives.

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Teams of officers literally
go door to door to door,

seeing if they
can find Dzhokhar.

They searched the living
room area, dining room --

went through
all the bedrooms.

It was something
you don't see every day

in an American neighborhood.

We had Black Hawk helicopters,
we had tanks,

we had cops from agencies
all over New England.

You'd think that you would
find Dzhokhar pretty quickly,

but they couldn't find him.

Armstrong:
At right around 6:00,

the Shelter-in-Place order
is lifted.

People are free to move around.

We are asking the public
to remain vigilant.

There is still a very, very
dangerous individual at large.

My heart sank,

because I believed
that they would find him

and that we would
feel secure again,

and when they didn't,
it was devastating.

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Wedge: So the people
in that neighborhood

slowly got back to normal.

One of those people
was Dave Henneberry.

After being in the house
for 20 hours, he told his wife,

"I'm going outside
to have a cigarette."

Armstrong:
He noticed that his boat,

which he keeps
in his backyard --

that part of the shrink wrap
that the boat was covered in

had come loose.

And he gets a ladder,
and he goes over to investigate.

And I look in the boat
over here on the floor,

and I see blood.

Then my eyes went to the
other side of the engine box.

There was a body.

He said, "I think the guy
you're looking for

is hiding in my boat
in my backyard."

[ Sirens wail ]

Chakravarty: Within seconds,
thousands of police officers

descend on and around
David Henneberry's house.

We silently approach the house.

♪♪

At that point, I had the whole
situation under control,

but as you can imagine,

I think every cop in New England
was looking for this guy.

One of the police officers sees

what he thinks is some movement
inside the boat.

They thought it was a gun,
and someone fired.

And that provoked
a massive fusillade

of rounds hitting the boat.

[ Gunfire ]
Man: What the [bleep]
is going on?

I believe we have Jim Armstrong
on the phone.

People hearing gunshots
fired there.

Jim, can you hear us?

There was a massive,
massive volley of gunfire

that had to have gone on
for 15 or 20 seconds, at least.

They hit it about 110 times
with shots from all directions.

And at that point,
I'm screaming in the radio,

"Hold your fire!
Hold your fire!"

And thank God I was able
to get everyone to hold,

calm the scene down.

Reporter: They do have him
cornered right now.

Blitzer:
They have who cornered?

They have the suspect.
They know exactly where he is.

Chakravarty:
So, they didn't know
whether he was alive or not.

Police had put
a helicopter overhead

with infrared technology.

And then they could see
his body in that boat,

and they could see
that he was moving.

And so, then, the FBI's team
that specializes in this

tried to negotiate and tried to
extract Tsarnaev from the boat.

They tried to order him out.

They are yelling loudly,
"Come out on your own terms."

We also heard them say,
"Come out with your hands up."

Armstrong: And they get his
wrestling coach to come in,

from high school, to try
to talk him out of the boat.

Well, that doesn't work.

Ultimately, what they do is

throw what law enforcement
call flashbangs.

♪♪

After the second flashbang
gets thrown into the boat,

Dzhokhar pokes his head up.

♪♪

He's got the rifle sight
on his forehead.

Wedge: He had been
pretty severely wounded.

He was shot several times,

and he was taken into custody
by a bunch of police officers.

Evans:
The FBI Hostage Recovery leader
came up to me and he said,

"Superintendent, in the interest

of the United States
of America," he says,

"we believe this man
to be a terrorist.

Do you mind if we
take this arrest?"

And at this point, I'm like,
"It's all yours."

What started about 23 hours ago
now seems to be finally over.

According to
Boston Police Department,

that suspect is now in custody.

When he was caught,
people in Watertown

literally poured
out of their homes,

and they were chanting,
and they were dancing.

[ Chanting ]
USA! USA! USA! USA!

People had American flags out.

It was one of the most
heartwarming and moving

experiences of
my 26 years as an FBI agent.

[ Cheering ]

I've never been so more
gratified in my entire life.

♪♪

Reporter:
The suspect now hospitalized

at Boston's
Beth Israel Deaconess.

Gregory: The FBI came in

and not only was talking to us
about what had happened,

but they then said
that the remaining brother

was in the hospital
right down from my room --

that he was being treated
for his injuries.

That's a hard pill to swallow,

because every time
I was going in for more surgery

because of what he had done,

we were passing the room
that he was lying in,

being taken care of by some
of the same doctors and nurses

that were taking care of me.

I just -- I couldn't believe it.

Gregory: The U.S. Attorney
and FBI agent came and said,

"Hey, this is what's going on.

We need you to testify
in Boston at the trial."

I was like, "What?"

I had just made the decision
to amputate my leg.

I had just went through
the surgery,

and I'm just figuring out
my life at this point.

I wanted no part of it.

But the more I thought about it,
the more I realized

if I could say something
that would help them,

then I have to do that.

♪♪

Today, the trial
of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev,

who faces 30 counts
related to the terror attack,

finally began.

Wedge: The trial was
one of the biggest trials

that's ever been held in Boston.

I feel like the city itself
needed to see some justice.

Prosecutors went to great
lengths to show the jury

the extent of what
these brothers did

to plan this attack,

including buying all the parts
for the bombs,

and they walked the jury
through how

the brothers planned the attacks
in the days leading up to it.

Deslauriers: We believe that
shortly before the bombings,

Tamerlan Tsarnaev
changed his appearance --

shaved, very likely to more
easily blend into the crowds.

Hughes:
On the day of the marathon,

the Tsarnaev brothers arrive
at 2:37 in the afternoon --

12 minutes before
the first bomb goes off.

Armstrong: Tamerlan heads
closer to the finish line

near Marathon Sports,

where the first bomb
will later go off.

Dzhokhar hangs back a little bit

and ends up in the area
of the Forum Restaurant.

I remember seeing
that Forum video

for the first time in court.

At 2:48 p.m., you can see
Dzhokhar is on his cellphone.

We believe he's talking
to Tamerlan at that point,

and then just seconds later,

the first bomb explodes
at Marathon Sports.

The video also showed
the death of Martin Richards.

Chakravarty: The Richards go to
the marathon as a tradition,

and that day,
Bill, Denise, and their kids

made their way
down Boylston Street.

There was a barricade
in front of the Forum Restaurant

where there was an open space.

Wedge:
You see Dzhokhar walk up.

He puts the backpack
behind the Richard family,

and then he stands there
for four minutes.

Reporter: The prosecution
wants to show Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

as a cold-blooded killer
who was calculated

in his planning of the attack,
and who demonstrated

a certain amount of callousness
following it.

Chakravarty: He lingers there,
feet away from these children,

knowing what the carnage that
this bomb was gonna create.

And he had every chance
to stop it, and he didn't.

Chakravarty: Bill Richard
heard the first blast

and he knew something was wrong.

Armstrong: So Bill starts
to climb the barricade,

and his next effort
will be to turn

and start hoisting his kids
over the barricade to get away.

And his leg is barely over
when the second bomb,

which is two feet behind him,
blows up

and sends him
flying into Boylston Street.

That second bomb does such
damage to his daughter Jane

that she ends up losing her leg.

A piece of shrapnel
from the bomb

goes into Denise Richard's eye.

It would later blind her.

Martin was just
a very different story.

Bill remembers looking
at Martin and knowing --

and knowing that there's...
[Voice breaking]

there's nothing he can do.

♪♪

After the attack,

the brothers were shockingly
casual in their activities.

Dzhokhar, we know, went out for
milk at a local grocery store,

oblivious to the horror
that they had perpetrated

upon the city of Boston
and the country.

♪♪

The trial was
an incredible experience,

and it was largely driven by

the survivor
and victim witnesses

that explained
what had happened to them.

There were survivors
who were there on crutches.

Some were in wheelchairs.

Being in that courtroom
was awful.

Dzhokhar was
completely cavalier.

Gregory:
He really didn't care.

He was leaning back
in his chair,

he was fiddling with his pencil,

he was cracking jokes
with his attorney.

Armstrong: He literally
could not have cared any less

about the victims describing

the terror that
he had wrought on them.

There was a still photo
taken from a surveillance video

of Tsarnaev when he was
first brought into

the federal court
months earlier.

Wedge: He's giving
the middle finger to the camera.

Here's what this guy
thinks of America,

here's what he thinks of you.

He was never a remorseful man.

A simple statement from the
defendant's lawyer, Judy Clarke.

"It was him," she said.
"He did it."

Armstrong: The defense strategy
throughout the trial

was to admit
that Dzhokhar did it.

Hughes:
But the defense tried to argue

that Dzhokhar
shouldn't get the death penalty

because it was Tamerlan
who was the ringleader.

Wedge: They said he was bullied
into it by his brother.

He literally used a Battered
Women Syndrome defense.

Ultimately, that was a bridge
too far for the defense

to be able to demonstrate.

Deslauriers:
They each set off bombs

that resulted in
the deaths of individuals.

McPhee: The gun that was used
to assassinate Sean Collier

and fired at police -- that gun
was obtained by Dzhokhar.

Absolutely not.

We have breaking news
to bring you out of Boston.

After just 11 1/2 hours
of deliberation,

the jury has reached a verdict

in the Boston Marathon
bombing trial.

He has been found guilty.

Chakravarty: He was found guilty
of all 30 counts,

and then he was given
the death penalty by the jury.

At the end, the survivors were
allowed to provide statements

to the defendant
and to the court.

The last victim impact statement
was given by Rebekah Gregory.

I was going to tell him
exactly how I felt,

and I was gonna make it count.

This is what I read in court --

"I was asked to give
a victim impact statement,

but in order to do that,

I would have to be
someone's victim,

and I'm definitely not
yours or your brother's.

While it's absolutely important
to explain the severe role PTSD

plays in both mine
and my child's life now,

what's more crucial to me
is that before you die,

you were shown
the bigger picture

of what your act of hate
has truly done.

So listen closely --

terrorists like you
do two things in this world.

One, they create
mass destruction.

But the second
is quite interesting,

because do you know what
mass destruction really does?

It brings people together.

Myself, along with
the other survivors,

have seen the hearts and souls
of millions across the world,

an outpouring of love

that stretches hundreds
of thousands of miles

for one act of hate that
stretched a couple hundred feet.

Do you know how many foundations

have been set up
to give back and help others,

and how many people have now
made full-time careers

of traveling the world
speaking out against evil?

While your intention
was to destroy America,

what you really
have accomplished

is quite the opposite --

you've unified us.

We are Boston strong.
We are America strong.

Choosing to mess with us
was a terrible idea.

How'sthat
victim impact statement?"

After Rebekah
gave her statement,

the crowd in the overflow room
at the courthouse

cheered for her.

Like many of the survivors,

she has gone on
to found a non-profit.

Hers is "Rebekah's Angels,"

which provides
mental-health treatment

to children
and families with PTSD.

Heather Abbott, who was at
the site of the Forum bombing,

lost her leg, but went on
to create a foundation

that provides custom prostheses
to those who need them.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev appealed
his death sentence,

and the courts overturned it,

granting him a new
penalty-phase trial.

But no matter what happens,

we know he will spend
the rest of his life in prison.

Thanks for watching.

Good night.