1 00:00:16,099 --> 00:00:18,143 [ominous music] 2 00:00:21,021 --> 00:00:23,023 [eerie music] 3 00:00:54,637 --> 00:00:56,639 [eerie music continues] 4 00:01:27,962 --> 00:01:29,964 [ominous music] 5 00:01:55,073 --> 00:01:57,158 Good afternoon. My name is Richard DesLauriers, 6 00:01:57,242 --> 00:02:00,161 and I am the Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Boston division. 7 00:02:00,829 --> 00:02:04,290 Today we are enlisting the public's help to identify the two suspects. 8 00:02:04,374 --> 00:02:06,376 [ominous music] 9 00:02:11,172 --> 00:02:13,317 I didn't know it at the time, but that press conference 10 00:02:13,341 --> 00:02:15,051 we conducted at the Sheraton Hotel 11 00:02:15,135 --> 00:02:17,428 on the evening of Thursday, April 18th, 2013, 12 00:02:17,512 --> 00:02:20,557 started the most momentous 48 hours of my career. 13 00:02:21,391 --> 00:02:24,519 Somebody out there knows these individuals as friends, 14 00:02:24,602 --> 00:02:28,273 neighbors, co-workers, or family members of the suspects. 15 00:02:28,356 --> 00:02:29,607 It was very intense. 16 00:02:30,108 --> 00:02:32,193 I mean, we're telling people now. 17 00:02:32,277 --> 00:02:34,863 We're telling them about who's been identified. 18 00:02:34,946 --> 00:02:36,614 Presenting them with the pictures. 19 00:02:36,698 --> 00:02:38,825 We don't know what's going to happen. 20 00:02:38,908 --> 00:02:40,118 The whole thing was risky. 21 00:02:40,201 --> 00:02:41,494 Are we forcing their hand? 22 00:02:41,578 --> 00:02:43,037 Are we making them do something? 23 00:02:43,121 --> 00:02:45,957 Now we're not having the ability to creep up on them. 24 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:50,378 Here they are. The FBI is referring to them as Suspect 1 and Suspect 2. 25 00:02:50,461 --> 00:02:52,630 [news anchor 1] The FBI has set up a special tip line 26 00:02:52,714 --> 00:02:54,674 and a website dedicated to this case. 27 00:02:54,757 --> 00:02:58,511 The website got like 40 million hits instantaneously. 28 00:02:58,595 --> 00:03:01,574 [news anchor 2] Suspects are considered to be armed and extremely dangerous. 29 00:03:01,598 --> 00:03:03,558 [news anchor 3] The revelation of the two suspects 30 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:05,643 gives the investigation a new sense of urgency. 31 00:03:05,727 --> 00:03:09,355 [woman] Do you think they'll be recognized from these images that have been released? 32 00:03:09,439 --> 00:03:10,481 Of course. 33 00:03:10,565 --> 00:03:12,692 I think they'll definitely catch 'em. 34 00:03:12,775 --> 00:03:15,904 They're doing their job. You know, it's gonna take time. 35 00:03:17,197 --> 00:03:18,239 Yeah, guess what? 36 00:03:18,323 --> 00:03:20,366 Richard DesLauriers is gonna take 'em down. 37 00:03:21,367 --> 00:03:24,120 [man] I was relieved that the photos were gonna be put out there, 38 00:03:24,204 --> 00:03:27,040 and I strongly believed the community would see those photographs 39 00:03:27,123 --> 00:03:30,877 and say, "That is so-and-so, and he's over here." 40 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:36,716 Immediately after that, we didn't get any calls. 41 00:03:36,799 --> 00:03:38,259 We didn't get one. 42 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:41,095 - I couldn't believe that. - I went home that night 43 00:03:41,179 --> 00:03:42,513 and I said to my wife, 44 00:03:43,014 --> 00:03:44,807 "We're gonna get a call overnight 45 00:03:45,308 --> 00:03:46,935 that somebody's identified these guys." 46 00:03:48,686 --> 00:03:51,481 And then I get a call that I didn't expect. 47 00:03:51,564 --> 00:03:53,441 [distant police sirens] 48 00:03:55,818 --> 00:03:57,820 [ominous music] 49 00:04:18,132 --> 00:04:19,425 [gunshots] 50 00:04:19,509 --> 00:04:22,011 MIT police. Calls recorded. Officer Sakov. 51 00:04:22,804 --> 00:04:26,891 [man] Hi. We're hearing a lot of loud noises outside of our window. 52 00:04:26,975 --> 00:04:32,021 They don't sound exactly like gunshots. But they're sharp, quick noises. 53 00:04:32,105 --> 00:04:35,566 There is a police officer that seems to be within the vicinity in a car, 54 00:04:35,650 --> 00:04:37,819 but we're really not sure what's going on. 55 00:04:37,902 --> 00:04:39,487 [Sakov] Okay. Well, we'll check it out. 56 00:04:39,988 --> 00:04:41,990 [suspenseful music swells] 57 00:04:47,036 --> 00:04:49,998 [officer] Oh my goodness. Hurry up! All units, respond. 58 00:04:50,081 --> 00:04:55,545 Officer down. Officer down. All units... Location. Officer down. 59 00:05:00,883 --> 00:05:02,510 [man] The press conference ends, 60 00:05:03,011 --> 00:05:05,096 and I'm taking the bus back. 61 00:05:05,179 --> 00:05:08,141 Crossing the Mass Avenue Bridge toward MIT. 62 00:05:10,393 --> 00:05:13,604 And as I'm getting to the other side of the CambridgeSide, I look to my right, 63 00:05:13,688 --> 00:05:16,399 and I see this sea of blue lights everywhere. 64 00:05:16,482 --> 00:05:21,362 Cop cars, patrol cars speeding up Memorial Drive. 65 00:05:22,655 --> 00:05:26,993 I'm among the first on the scene, and there's a lot of anger. 66 00:05:27,076 --> 00:05:29,412 One cop was visibly in tears. 67 00:05:30,621 --> 00:05:33,666 I was talking to law enforcement, trying to figure out what happened. 68 00:05:34,167 --> 00:05:37,211 - [reporter] Have anything to tell us, sir? - Nope. Nothing at all right now. 69 00:05:38,379 --> 00:05:39,505 [Davis] I got a call. 70 00:05:39,589 --> 00:05:42,508 A police officer has been killed in Cambridge. 71 00:05:44,093 --> 00:05:47,138 Cambridge is a different city in a different jurisdiction. 72 00:05:48,306 --> 00:05:51,809 But the story we got was that this was a robbery gone wrong. 73 00:05:52,435 --> 00:05:56,314 For a campus police officer to be shot in the Boston area is extremely rare. 74 00:05:56,397 --> 00:05:58,483 When was the last time a cop was killed in Cambridge? 75 00:05:58,566 --> 00:06:00,068 It doesn't happen. 76 00:06:00,151 --> 00:06:03,488 It doesn't happen on that campus. Doesn't happen in that community. 77 00:06:03,571 --> 00:06:04,989 Something's wrong. 78 00:06:05,073 --> 00:06:06,908 Something is definitely wrong. 79 00:06:06,991 --> 00:06:09,952 You can clearly see there was a struggle. 80 00:06:10,870 --> 00:06:12,830 They were attempting to get his gun. 81 00:06:13,623 --> 00:06:15,958 It was clearly an assassination. 82 00:06:17,335 --> 00:06:20,380 He had a retention holster that made it impossible for them to get it out. 83 00:06:20,463 --> 00:06:22,131 [police radio squawking] 84 00:06:22,882 --> 00:06:24,384 [Foley] Ed Davis is saying to me, 85 00:06:24,467 --> 00:06:26,636 "Do you think this is Black Hat and White Hat?" 86 00:06:26,719 --> 00:06:29,222 And I'm like, "It would make sense it would be." 87 00:06:29,806 --> 00:06:34,143 I saw folks with a look of worry, of fear on their faces. 88 00:06:34,227 --> 00:06:35,103 [sirens wailing] 89 00:06:35,186 --> 00:06:38,981 [Foley] Every minute that goes by, we risk more lives. 90 00:06:39,065 --> 00:06:43,194 If this is them, what other hell are they gonna rain down next? 91 00:06:45,154 --> 00:06:46,781 [ominous music] 92 00:06:52,203 --> 00:06:54,580 [man] On the evening of April 18th, 93 00:06:55,123 --> 00:06:56,624 I was driving my new car 94 00:06:56,707 --> 00:06:59,961 along the Charles River on the Cambridge side. 95 00:07:01,587 --> 00:07:04,400 I know there is something happening in Cambridge because there was a lot 96 00:07:04,424 --> 00:07:06,801 of blue lights and police cars. 97 00:07:06,884 --> 00:07:08,136 Twenty of them. 98 00:07:09,011 --> 00:07:11,180 Something serious must have happened there. 99 00:07:11,264 --> 00:07:12,682 [sirens wailing] 100 00:07:19,605 --> 00:07:22,775 [Meng] I came to America from China in 2009 101 00:07:23,276 --> 00:07:25,528 to get a master's degree. 102 00:07:26,737 --> 00:07:29,407 I wanted to learn more about American culture. 103 00:07:30,867 --> 00:07:32,994 Learn more about the American dream. 104 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:36,038 President Obama, he once said, 105 00:07:36,122 --> 00:07:37,248 "Any American 106 00:07:37,331 --> 00:07:38,207 if you'll be honest, 107 00:07:38,291 --> 00:07:42,628 if you're working hard, you deserve to have a bright future." 108 00:07:43,379 --> 00:07:46,549 That's what I think. If you just work hard on yourself, 109 00:07:46,632 --> 00:07:48,384 if you're honest with yourself, 110 00:07:48,468 --> 00:07:50,428 you're gonna have a better life. 111 00:07:51,304 --> 00:07:53,723 I was really fascinated by nice cars. 112 00:07:55,349 --> 00:07:57,059 So I bought my first car. 113 00:07:57,143 --> 00:07:58,478 It was a Mercedes. 114 00:07:59,437 --> 00:08:01,981 When I was driving the car, I felt like a badass. 115 00:08:02,064 --> 00:08:02,899 [tires squeal] 116 00:08:02,982 --> 00:08:05,693 I don't want anybody getting too close to it. 117 00:08:05,776 --> 00:08:07,528 I don't want anybody else to drive it. 118 00:08:07,612 --> 00:08:08,863 It's like a baby to me. 119 00:08:15,703 --> 00:08:17,246 [Meng] I was driving my new car. 120 00:08:17,330 --> 00:08:19,582 I remember I got a text message. 121 00:08:20,958 --> 00:08:24,128 I decided to pull over on a street called Brighton Avenue. 122 00:08:25,505 --> 00:08:29,008 I was focused on the phone for one or two minutes. 123 00:08:30,176 --> 00:08:32,678 Then I saw a car pull over right behind me. 124 00:08:33,804 --> 00:08:36,349 It felt a little bit weird. 125 00:08:36,432 --> 00:08:38,434 [ominous music] 126 00:08:43,314 --> 00:08:46,609 I thought, maybe it's someone trying to ask for directions. 127 00:08:48,069 --> 00:08:50,404 And then they knocked on my passenger side. 128 00:08:50,905 --> 00:08:55,993 So I lower down the window a little bit, just maybe this much space. 129 00:08:56,077 --> 00:08:58,788 Then he wants me to lower a little bit more. 130 00:09:04,293 --> 00:09:07,171 Very fast. I didn't have time to response. 131 00:09:07,672 --> 00:09:10,299 And I was like, "What the heck is happening?" 132 00:09:10,925 --> 00:09:12,552 And he pointed a gun at me. 133 00:09:13,469 --> 00:09:14,679 My body was shaking. 134 00:09:14,762 --> 00:09:15,596 I was like, 135 00:09:15,680 --> 00:09:17,765 "I'll do whatever you ask me to do." 136 00:09:17,848 --> 00:09:19,892 "Just please don't kill me." 137 00:09:20,685 --> 00:09:23,854 He told me he can kill me anytime he wants to. 138 00:09:23,938 --> 00:09:25,189 "Just start driving." 139 00:09:29,777 --> 00:09:33,322 And the car behind me was following us the whole way. 140 00:09:34,448 --> 00:09:36,450 [ominous music] 141 00:09:45,501 --> 00:09:47,795 [Meng] I realize we were driving to Watertown. 142 00:09:54,218 --> 00:09:55,886 We pull over to a house... 143 00:09:55,970 --> 00:09:56,970 in Watertown. 144 00:09:57,763 --> 00:10:01,058 And the older one, he wants me to sit on the passenger side. 145 00:10:02,101 --> 00:10:03,686 They both get out of the car. 146 00:10:04,812 --> 00:10:06,814 I was thinking, maybe it's my time to run, 147 00:10:06,897 --> 00:10:09,942 but they took out the key and locked the door. 148 00:10:12,737 --> 00:10:16,115 And then they moved some stuff from the other sedan to my car. 149 00:10:17,908 --> 00:10:19,619 A couple of boxes, I think. 150 00:10:22,163 --> 00:10:24,957 They get back in the car, and now it's three of us. 151 00:10:25,041 --> 00:10:26,792 The older one is driving. 152 00:10:27,418 --> 00:10:29,795 Then they just left their car behind us. 153 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:32,673 I didn't know their relationship. 154 00:10:33,174 --> 00:10:36,510 One of them was much younger and looked like a student, 155 00:10:36,594 --> 00:10:39,347 but they seemed pretty American to me. 156 00:10:41,682 --> 00:10:44,935 The older one asked me, do I know who he is? 157 00:10:45,728 --> 00:10:47,313 I said, "I don't know who you are." 158 00:10:47,396 --> 00:10:50,024 He said, "I did the Boston Marathon bombing." 159 00:10:50,524 --> 00:10:53,486 "And we just killed a policeman in Cambridge." 160 00:10:53,569 --> 00:10:55,112 [ominous music] 161 00:10:59,909 --> 00:11:01,285 Oh shit. Like... 162 00:11:02,995 --> 00:11:04,747 How could it be possible? 163 00:11:04,830 --> 00:11:06,248 Like, why me? 164 00:11:06,749 --> 00:11:09,669 - [helicopter propellers beating] - [police sirens blaring] 165 00:11:11,754 --> 00:11:15,049 A Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer was shot at. 166 00:11:15,132 --> 00:11:17,218 He suffered multiple gunshot wounds. 167 00:11:17,301 --> 00:11:19,261 He was taken to hospital, and he died. 168 00:11:21,305 --> 00:11:24,308 I was told that they shot six times into the vehicle, 169 00:11:24,392 --> 00:11:27,019 one which pierced this officer's brain. 170 00:11:27,103 --> 00:11:28,729 When I arrived at the command post, 171 00:11:28,813 --> 00:11:31,399 I had learned about the murder of Officer Sean Collier at MIT, 172 00:11:31,482 --> 00:11:33,234 which was just absolutely tragic news. 173 00:11:33,317 --> 00:11:36,529 Anytime somebody in law enforcement gets killed, it's devastating. 174 00:11:36,612 --> 00:11:38,614 And to assassinate poor Sean 175 00:11:38,698 --> 00:11:42,118 while he was sitting in his car doing a thankless job? 176 00:11:42,910 --> 00:11:44,453 He didn't deserve that. 177 00:11:44,537 --> 00:11:46,598 - [police sirens wailing] - [indistinct radio chatter] 178 00:11:46,622 --> 00:11:51,293 I felt a combination of anger and urgency to run these guys down. 179 00:11:51,377 --> 00:11:54,338 These guys had beat us. They got through our lines of defense. 180 00:11:56,590 --> 00:11:59,135 [Martin] After those photos were released to the public, 181 00:11:59,218 --> 00:12:01,387 it was clear that they were flushed out. 182 00:12:01,470 --> 00:12:02,596 That they were known. 183 00:12:02,680 --> 00:12:05,808 And they seemed to be in a mood of, "We have nothing to lose." 184 00:12:06,767 --> 00:12:09,895 [interviewer] Do you ever reflect if you hadn't released the photos, 185 00:12:09,979 --> 00:12:12,022 Sean Collier would still be alive today? 186 00:12:14,233 --> 00:12:17,611 Well, I mean, to be quite honest with you, they needed another gun. 187 00:12:17,695 --> 00:12:18,935 That's what they were gonna do. 188 00:12:18,988 --> 00:12:21,633 They were gonna do that whether it was Thursday, Friday or Saturday. 189 00:12:21,657 --> 00:12:24,076 I thought then and I think today 190 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:28,414 that there was no downside to releasing those photographs immediately. 191 00:12:28,497 --> 00:12:30,332 Right to that corner over there... 192 00:12:32,126 --> 00:12:36,172 Given what happened, I know it's Monday morning quarterbacking, 193 00:12:36,797 --> 00:12:38,966 but it is a legitimate question. 194 00:12:39,049 --> 00:12:41,719 Was this the right approach? 195 00:12:43,179 --> 00:12:44,764 [Davis] We had a responsibility, 196 00:12:44,847 --> 00:12:47,016 so that the public could protect themselves. 197 00:12:47,099 --> 00:12:48,476 This is an aberration. 198 00:12:49,226 --> 00:12:52,313 This incident goes to show that no matter what you have in place, 199 00:12:52,396 --> 00:12:57,359 no matter how hard you try to prevent it, you're not gonna prevent everything. 200 00:12:58,235 --> 00:12:59,820 And I think that's what happened here. 201 00:12:59,904 --> 00:13:01,071 [dog barking] 202 00:13:01,572 --> 00:13:03,574 [ominous music] 203 00:13:09,246 --> 00:13:10,372 [Meng] In the car, 204 00:13:11,624 --> 00:13:14,627 they are speaking another language that I don't really understand. 205 00:13:21,425 --> 00:13:23,010 We stop at a bank. 206 00:13:25,888 --> 00:13:27,848 The younger one gets out of the car. 207 00:13:29,058 --> 00:13:31,477 They use my debit card to get some cash. 208 00:13:35,648 --> 00:13:37,983 When we were in the car, I actually remember asking him, 209 00:13:38,067 --> 00:13:40,027 "Are you gonna kill me tonight?" 210 00:13:40,569 --> 00:13:43,823 That's when he said, "No, we're not gonna kill you." 211 00:13:43,906 --> 00:13:46,242 "We're just gonna drop you off at someplace 212 00:13:47,243 --> 00:13:49,411 far away where nobody can find you." 213 00:13:50,579 --> 00:13:53,207 Should I believe those two murderers? 214 00:13:53,707 --> 00:13:55,668 Why would they let you go? 215 00:13:55,751 --> 00:13:59,380 They don't care about other people's lives. 216 00:14:00,714 --> 00:14:03,175 They'll probably kill me on the side of a highway. 217 00:14:05,052 --> 00:14:07,721 My family, my parents, my friends, 218 00:14:08,430 --> 00:14:11,392 I didn't have a chance to say goodbye to them. 219 00:14:14,937 --> 00:14:18,232 They asked me, "Can your car go out of state? Like, New York?" 220 00:14:18,315 --> 00:14:20,693 I said, "Yeah, of course." You know? 221 00:14:20,776 --> 00:14:24,572 Then I realized, they're probably trying to go to New York to do another bombing. 222 00:14:25,197 --> 00:14:26,532 [car horn honking] 223 00:14:30,786 --> 00:14:34,915 I know that if we are on a highway, they probably won't stop until New York. 224 00:14:34,999 --> 00:14:38,043 I told him that I only have a quarter of a tank left, 225 00:14:38,127 --> 00:14:40,671 so let's get a full gas tank. 226 00:14:40,754 --> 00:14:43,257 They were driving, looking for a gas station 227 00:14:43,340 --> 00:14:44,508 that was still open, 228 00:14:44,592 --> 00:14:45,632 but everything was closed. 229 00:14:48,512 --> 00:14:51,765 Ten minutes later, we stopped at a gas station in Cambridge. 230 00:14:52,433 --> 00:14:54,435 [foreboding music] 231 00:15:05,487 --> 00:15:07,406 [Meng] The younger one gets out of the car. 232 00:15:15,706 --> 00:15:17,082 The older one put his gun 233 00:15:17,166 --> 00:15:20,419 in the pocket of the door. 234 00:15:20,502 --> 00:15:24,298 If I want to run away, if I want to escape from this, 235 00:15:24,381 --> 00:15:26,592 it's probably my last opportunity. 236 00:15:28,344 --> 00:15:30,888 It's the most important decision of my life. 237 00:15:33,390 --> 00:15:38,228 And then I just tell myself, "Fuck it. I'll do it." 238 00:15:38,312 --> 00:15:39,312 Then... 239 00:15:40,397 --> 00:15:44,193 Fortunately, you know, I was able to unlock the seatbelt, 240 00:15:45,069 --> 00:15:47,154 unlock the car, and then pull the handle. 241 00:15:47,237 --> 00:15:51,575 I could feel like he was trying to grab me with his right hand. 242 00:15:51,659 --> 00:15:56,121 But it felt really, really close. 243 00:15:56,789 --> 00:15:59,458 Like, this close. 244 00:16:02,127 --> 00:16:03,963 [suspenseful music] 245 00:16:04,505 --> 00:16:06,173 I run across the street 246 00:16:07,424 --> 00:16:09,843 to another gas station that's still open. 247 00:16:11,011 --> 00:16:13,138 [suspenseful music continuous] 248 00:16:13,222 --> 00:16:14,974 [no audio] 249 00:16:23,983 --> 00:16:26,986 [911 operator] 911, recorded line. What's your emergency? 250 00:16:27,611 --> 00:16:30,030 [man] Yes, I am in a Mobile gas station. 251 00:16:31,281 --> 00:16:33,075 816 Memorial Drive. 252 00:16:33,158 --> 00:16:35,703 There is one customer who came inside now, 253 00:16:35,786 --> 00:16:39,456 and he told me someone wanted to shoot him, 254 00:16:39,540 --> 00:16:41,709 and he stay inside, and he won't leave. 255 00:16:41,792 --> 00:16:43,232 [911 operator] Can I speak with him? 256 00:16:43,293 --> 00:16:48,090 [Meng] They are the suspects of the marathon explosion. 257 00:16:48,632 --> 00:16:50,759 Help me, please. They have guns. 258 00:16:50,843 --> 00:16:52,177 [911 operator] Where are they? 259 00:16:52,261 --> 00:16:55,973 [Meng] They are in a Shell gas station on Memorial Drive. 260 00:16:59,059 --> 00:17:01,059 [911 operator] They're in front of the gas station? 261 00:17:01,103 --> 00:17:03,188 [Meng] Yes. I just ran. I just got to run. 262 00:17:03,856 --> 00:17:06,483 - Can you please come? - [911 operator] They're on their way. 263 00:17:06,567 --> 00:17:08,652 Take a deep breath and stay where you are. 264 00:17:08,736 --> 00:17:11,613 - I'm gonna stay on the phone with you. - [Meng] Okay. Okay. 265 00:17:18,245 --> 00:17:21,915 Yeah, I can feel my voice is shaking. 266 00:17:21,999 --> 00:17:25,252 And I cannot even speak. 267 00:17:26,336 --> 00:17:28,881 It felt like the longest two hours of my life. 268 00:17:30,174 --> 00:17:33,093 I still feel terrible every time I think about it. 269 00:17:33,177 --> 00:17:37,890 That's, like, the most difficult decision I have ever made. 270 00:17:41,769 --> 00:17:43,520 As life goes on, you know, 271 00:17:43,604 --> 00:17:46,356 what I'm trying to do is just not... 272 00:17:48,358 --> 00:17:49,735 focus on that. 273 00:17:49,818 --> 00:17:55,157 You know, I just appreciate that I'm still alive. 274 00:17:55,908 --> 00:17:58,744 - [police sirens wailing] - [helicopter propellers beating] 275 00:18:01,246 --> 00:18:02,498 [Davis] We were flooding MIT 276 00:18:02,581 --> 00:18:05,459 with police, looking for anything suspicious. 277 00:18:05,542 --> 00:18:10,339 All of a sudden we get a call from the gas station on Memorial Drive. 278 00:18:11,715 --> 00:18:14,301 There was a guy there saying he was kidnapped, 279 00:18:14,384 --> 00:18:15,844 and it was the bombers. 280 00:18:16,595 --> 00:18:18,722 I told them that my car 281 00:18:19,932 --> 00:18:21,600 had a tracking system. 282 00:18:21,683 --> 00:18:27,064 He says to the police officer, "The GPS number is 1234567." 283 00:18:28,065 --> 00:18:29,942 And the officer said, "How do you know that?" 284 00:18:30,025 --> 00:18:33,112 You get excited with your first car. You remember everything. 285 00:18:33,195 --> 00:18:37,825 So he literally had the GPS transmitter number off the top of his head. 286 00:18:37,908 --> 00:18:41,370 I really wanted them to catch those guys as soon as possible. 287 00:18:41,453 --> 00:18:43,372 The officer called that in, 288 00:18:43,872 --> 00:18:46,083 and they tracked the car almost immediately 289 00:18:46,166 --> 00:18:47,459 to Watertown. 290 00:18:49,086 --> 00:18:50,754 [operator] Watertown Control to all cars. 291 00:18:50,838 --> 00:18:55,676 Cambridge is looking for a one, three, seven, November, Zulu, one. 292 00:18:55,759 --> 00:18:58,720 That's a 2013 Mercedes. Color black. 293 00:18:59,221 --> 00:19:02,516 The vehicle was taken from 816 Memorial Drive 294 00:19:02,599 --> 00:19:05,060 in Cambridge during a carjacking. 295 00:19:05,644 --> 00:19:09,815 Occupied by two Middle Eastern males. One described as 5' 7". 296 00:19:09,898 --> 00:19:12,609 The second described as light-skinned. 297 00:19:13,110 --> 00:19:15,112 [foreboding music] 298 00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:24,663 [MacLellan] I did 30 years as a police officer 299 00:19:24,746 --> 00:19:25,998 in the town of Watertown. 300 00:19:30,002 --> 00:19:32,421 It is a touching town of Boston, 301 00:19:32,504 --> 00:19:35,799 and we are a very small town with four square miles, 302 00:19:35,883 --> 00:19:37,509 but it is densely packed 303 00:19:37,593 --> 00:19:41,972 with over 40,000 people living in the town, in four square miles. 304 00:19:43,473 --> 00:19:44,892 It's very tight-knit. 305 00:19:44,975 --> 00:19:47,811 A lot of families, a lot of young kids. 306 00:19:50,522 --> 00:19:52,649 It is a very, very safe place. 307 00:19:53,150 --> 00:19:55,652 I can't even say I even came close 308 00:19:55,736 --> 00:19:59,573 to pulling the trigger until that night. 309 00:20:01,825 --> 00:20:03,595 - [indistinct radio chatter] - [sirens blaring] 310 00:20:03,619 --> 00:20:05,287 [officer] Shot fired! Shot fired! 311 00:20:05,370 --> 00:20:07,164 [panicked radio chatter] 312 00:20:07,247 --> 00:20:09,041 [officer shouting indistinctly] 313 00:20:09,124 --> 00:20:10,876 [shouting continues over radio static] 314 00:20:12,836 --> 00:20:14,838 [ominous music] 315 00:20:17,799 --> 00:20:19,593 [MacLellan] PTSD is a real thing. 316 00:20:19,676 --> 00:20:21,470 It'll eat you up and kill you. 317 00:20:25,182 --> 00:20:27,809 It's like a different life. It's a different life. 318 00:20:27,893 --> 00:20:30,437 [indistinct police radio chatter] 319 00:20:33,774 --> 00:20:36,610 [Pugliese] In 2013, I was a sergeant. 320 00:20:37,319 --> 00:20:40,155 And I had been in that position for 20 years. 321 00:20:44,451 --> 00:20:45,869 I came to the police station, 322 00:20:45,953 --> 00:20:48,288 and I have my police radio on. 323 00:20:50,290 --> 00:20:54,336 I heard about Sean Collier, the MIT police officer, being murdered. 324 00:20:56,088 --> 00:20:58,006 I thought, "Oh my God, it's horrific." 325 00:20:58,715 --> 00:21:01,051 So, I went out to my car. 326 00:21:01,134 --> 00:21:02,928 I lit up a cigarillo, 327 00:21:03,428 --> 00:21:05,430 and I'm listening to the police radio. 328 00:21:06,014 --> 00:21:07,734 [operator] We got a call from Cambridge P.D. 329 00:21:07,808 --> 00:21:10,352 They just pinged the phone number in the vehicle 330 00:21:10,435 --> 00:21:11,895 in question on the carjacking. 331 00:21:11,979 --> 00:21:13,897 It's in the area of Dexter Ave. 332 00:21:13,981 --> 00:21:15,774 A 2013 Mercedes. 333 00:21:17,526 --> 00:21:19,069 A Cambridge police officer 334 00:21:19,152 --> 00:21:22,948 called our officer in charge directly 335 00:21:23,031 --> 00:21:25,867 and said, "Hey, listen, just to let you know, 336 00:21:25,951 --> 00:21:27,828 we have a stolen car in Cambridge." 337 00:21:27,911 --> 00:21:34,126 "We're tracking it, and it's in Watertown right now at 93 Dexter Ave." 338 00:21:34,876 --> 00:21:37,480 [officer 1] Okay, could you give me the plate number again, please, 339 00:21:37,504 --> 00:21:39,214 and the description of the vehicle? 340 00:21:39,298 --> 00:21:41,550 [operator] Black 2013 Mercedes. 341 00:21:41,633 --> 00:21:44,386 [Pugliese] It was Officer Joe Reynolds' patrol area, 342 00:21:44,469 --> 00:21:46,430 and he says, "I'll check that out." 343 00:21:46,513 --> 00:21:48,515 [officer 1] The car is on the move right now. 344 00:21:48,598 --> 00:21:52,227 It's a carjacking, is how it came out. And they said they may be armed. 345 00:21:52,311 --> 00:21:56,148 I'm thinking, well, if they get there, there's gonna be two things happening. 346 00:21:56,231 --> 00:21:58,608 It's gonna be a car chase or a foot pursuit. 347 00:21:59,192 --> 00:22:02,154 We only know that it's a vehicle taken at gunpoint. 348 00:22:02,738 --> 00:22:07,117 I'm thinkin' it's a couple of kids. You know, we're gonna pull this car over. 349 00:22:07,617 --> 00:22:09,995 They're gonna give up, or get out of the car and run. 350 00:22:10,078 --> 00:22:12,873 If they take off out of the car and they're chasing 'em on foot, 351 00:22:12,956 --> 00:22:14,249 I'll be an extra set of eyes. 352 00:22:14,333 --> 00:22:15,625 So, I started driving. 353 00:22:15,709 --> 00:22:18,313 I left the police station, and I started heading in that direction. 354 00:22:18,337 --> 00:22:20,922 [officer 2] Okay, roger. Still here on Laurel. 355 00:22:21,006 --> 00:22:22,674 Just took a left on Laurel. 356 00:22:22,758 --> 00:22:25,385 [Pugliese] Joe Reynolds got there, and they passed each other. 357 00:22:25,469 --> 00:22:27,679 Then they slow down to about two miles an hour. 358 00:22:27,763 --> 00:22:29,681 They actually made eye contact. 359 00:22:32,309 --> 00:22:34,949 We found out that the suspects were driving two different vehicles. 360 00:22:34,978 --> 00:22:38,774 It was their vehicle in front and then the black SUV behind it. 361 00:22:38,857 --> 00:22:41,610 [officer 2] Right next to it now. You want me to stop it? 362 00:22:42,903 --> 00:22:45,447 And I get on the radio, I said, "Joey don't stop that vehicle." 363 00:22:45,530 --> 00:22:48,116 "Let me catch up to you." He said, "Roger, Sarge." 364 00:22:48,909 --> 00:22:50,952 [officer 1] I'm right behind that vehicle. 365 00:22:51,453 --> 00:22:52,496 Light him up. 366 00:22:55,832 --> 00:22:57,834 [ominous music] 367 00:22:59,211 --> 00:23:01,004 Officer Reynolds was following behind them. 368 00:23:01,088 --> 00:23:02,589 They weren't going fast. 369 00:23:02,672 --> 00:23:06,593 And that's when the black SUV stopped. 370 00:23:08,970 --> 00:23:12,682 And when I took a left onto Laurel Street, it was mayhem. 371 00:23:12,766 --> 00:23:14,768 [ominous music continues] 372 00:23:19,231 --> 00:23:21,149 - [sirens wailing] - [gunshots] 373 00:23:24,236 --> 00:23:25,862 [gunfire continuous] 374 00:23:30,325 --> 00:23:33,161 Suspect in the middle of the street, just firing in it. 375 00:23:33,245 --> 00:23:35,580 I'm throwing my car into park. 376 00:23:35,664 --> 00:23:38,083 And boom, glass in my face. 377 00:23:38,959 --> 00:23:40,919 [officer 3] Shots fired. All units respond. 378 00:23:41,420 --> 00:23:44,774 [officer 4] All units. We have shots fired on the vehicle in question from Cambridge. 379 00:23:44,798 --> 00:23:46,466 Last seen near the area of Dexter Ave. 380 00:23:46,550 --> 00:23:49,302 [officer 5] Shots fired in Watertown. 381 00:23:49,386 --> 00:23:52,556 When he said, "They're shooting at me," my thought was, "I gotta help." 382 00:23:52,639 --> 00:23:56,351 I went from doing 30 miles an hour to doing 80 miles an hour. 383 00:23:56,435 --> 00:23:58,145 [officer 1] Shots fired! Shots fired! 384 00:23:58,228 --> 00:23:59,312 [officer 2] Shots fired. 385 00:23:59,396 --> 00:24:00,689 [gunfire] 386 00:24:00,772 --> 00:24:02,607 I said, "I gotta do something." 387 00:24:02,691 --> 00:24:04,568 I said, "I'm gonna jump up into this vehicle." 388 00:24:05,652 --> 00:24:09,114 "I'm gonna throw it in drive, and I'm just gonna send it towards them." 389 00:24:09,614 --> 00:24:10,866 At least this way, 390 00:24:11,366 --> 00:24:13,702 I can see how many people are gonna be shooting at us. 391 00:24:13,785 --> 00:24:16,329 See what we got, so I can give it to the incoming units. 392 00:24:16,413 --> 00:24:17,289 [gunfire continuous] 393 00:24:17,372 --> 00:24:20,083 Reynolds says, "Sarge, who's driving 468?" 394 00:24:20,917 --> 00:24:23,879 My car was going down towards them. He didn't know no one was in it. 395 00:24:23,962 --> 00:24:26,339 I was just... You know, it was just goin' down the street. 396 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:29,009 That's when I saw them behind the Mercedes, 397 00:24:29,593 --> 00:24:31,887 I could see him throwin' something. 398 00:24:34,306 --> 00:24:35,746 And I saw it coming through the air, 399 00:24:35,807 --> 00:24:37,851 and it was coming through the air I'm like, 400 00:24:37,934 --> 00:24:40,479 "This kid's throwin' sticks at us." 401 00:24:41,062 --> 00:24:42,731 And when it hit the ground, 402 00:24:42,814 --> 00:24:44,000 it went ting-ting-ting-ting... 403 00:24:44,024 --> 00:24:45,650 And I went... [gasps] 404 00:24:47,068 --> 00:24:48,445 [explosion] 405 00:24:48,528 --> 00:24:50,614 [ominous music] 406 00:25:02,834 --> 00:25:03,919 [police radio squawking] 407 00:25:04,002 --> 00:25:06,421 [MacLellan] Loud explosion! Loud explosion! 408 00:25:06,505 --> 00:25:07,881 Loud explosion! 409 00:25:12,052 --> 00:25:14,721 What? What a friggin' week this has been. 410 00:25:14,804 --> 00:25:16,431 First, the marathon bombing. 411 00:25:16,515 --> 00:25:19,142 An MIT police officer gets murdered. 412 00:25:19,226 --> 00:25:21,394 You know, what else can go wrong this week? 413 00:25:22,270 --> 00:25:25,065 [Martin] At that point, while I'm standing there at MIT, 414 00:25:25,148 --> 00:25:28,985 there was suddenly this commotion that was going on. 415 00:25:29,069 --> 00:25:32,531 And police are listening to their car radio. 416 00:25:32,614 --> 00:25:36,785 We hear on the radio, you know, "Shots fired. Shots fired." 417 00:25:36,868 --> 00:25:38,703 [officer 1] Shots fired! Shots fired! 418 00:25:38,787 --> 00:25:42,207 [officer 2] Units respond to the scene. We need assistance immediately! 419 00:25:42,290 --> 00:25:44,290 [officer 3] Watertown, Newtown has 8 comin' at you. 420 00:25:44,334 --> 00:25:45,835 [officer 4] Eight en route with K9. 421 00:25:45,919 --> 00:25:48,964 [officer 5] Cambridge to Watertown, we also have three units responding. 422 00:25:49,047 --> 00:25:50,465 My mind immediately went to, 423 00:25:50,549 --> 00:25:52,842 "This is all related. This has gotta be them." 424 00:25:52,926 --> 00:25:57,764 I remember immediately hitting lights and sirens and just flying 425 00:25:57,847 --> 00:25:58,847 to Watertown. 426 00:25:58,890 --> 00:26:00,267 [sirens wailing] 427 00:26:01,476 --> 00:26:03,311 I just headed towards Watertown, 428 00:26:03,395 --> 00:26:07,065 and there was a cavalry of police vehicles heading that way. 429 00:26:07,148 --> 00:26:10,443 And I just jumped in it and followed the crowd out there. 430 00:26:10,527 --> 00:26:13,280 And I don't know what's going on, but I decided to rush with them. 431 00:26:13,363 --> 00:26:14,489 Whatever was happening, 432 00:26:14,573 --> 00:26:17,576 it seemed to be connected to something much larger than what's going on. 433 00:26:17,659 --> 00:26:20,412 'Cause they're leaving the scene of a murdered cop. 434 00:26:20,495 --> 00:26:23,790 [officer] We have him pinned down. He's throwing explosives at us. 435 00:26:24,291 --> 00:26:27,085 Overnight, Chief of Department called. 436 00:26:27,711 --> 00:26:28,545 And he said, 437 00:26:28,628 --> 00:26:31,506 "Commissioner, they're throwing bombs at us and shooting." 438 00:26:31,590 --> 00:26:33,008 And I said, "Who's throwing bombs?" 439 00:26:33,091 --> 00:26:35,260 He said, "We got these guys, we're chasing 'em down." 440 00:26:35,343 --> 00:26:38,763 The phone rang, and I answered it, and it was one of my assistants, 441 00:26:38,847 --> 00:26:42,142 and he had told me, "Our suspects are on the run right now, 442 00:26:42,225 --> 00:26:45,061 and they're hurling more bombs at Watertown police officers 443 00:26:45,145 --> 00:26:46,855 in Watertown, Massachusetts." 444 00:26:46,938 --> 00:26:48,898 And as soon as I heard that, I said, "Holy shit." 445 00:26:52,027 --> 00:26:53,028 [sirens wailing] 446 00:26:53,111 --> 00:26:54,831 [officer 1] Can I get that location, please? 447 00:26:54,904 --> 00:26:56,948 [officer 2] Dexter and Laurel. Dexter and Laurel. 448 00:26:57,032 --> 00:26:58,575 [gunfire] 449 00:27:01,369 --> 00:27:03,409 [MacLellan] When you hear those cruisers pullin' up, 450 00:27:03,455 --> 00:27:04,914 it's like it's the best... 451 00:27:04,998 --> 00:27:06,416 It's the best feeling in the world, 452 00:27:06,499 --> 00:27:11,963 because you know we got more ammo coming, we got more guns on these guys. 453 00:27:12,047 --> 00:27:14,758 [man 1] Fucking shooting, right in front of my house. 454 00:27:16,009 --> 00:27:17,009 [man 2] Get outta here. 455 00:27:17,052 --> 00:27:19,763 [man 3] Hey, everybody stop. Look out. Go the other way. 456 00:27:19,846 --> 00:27:21,139 [man 4] Go the other way. 457 00:27:21,222 --> 00:27:22,557 [gunshots] 458 00:27:22,641 --> 00:27:24,309 [man 5] Getting serious, man. 459 00:27:24,392 --> 00:27:26,144 [gunfire continuous] 460 00:27:27,395 --> 00:27:30,315 Bombs goin' off. There's cops shooting everywhere. 461 00:27:30,398 --> 00:27:32,776 It was an absolute war zone. 462 00:27:32,859 --> 00:27:35,904 We did have residents comin' out, and that's what scared me. 463 00:27:35,987 --> 00:27:38,073 [operator] Line's recorded. What is your emergency? 464 00:27:38,156 --> 00:27:39,449 [woman 1] I'm in Watertown. 465 00:27:39,532 --> 00:27:41,743 I'm hearing what sounds like gunshots, and I heard... 466 00:27:41,826 --> 00:27:43,828 [operator] We're aware of the situation. Thank you. 467 00:27:43,912 --> 00:27:46,164 911, this line is recorded. What's your emergency? 468 00:27:46,247 --> 00:27:47,791 [woman 2] Somebody's shootin' a gun... 469 00:27:47,874 --> 00:27:49,501 [operator] 911, this line is recorded. 470 00:27:49,584 --> 00:27:52,295 [woman 3] Hi. I just heard a huge bang. 471 00:27:52,379 --> 00:27:54,339 [operator] Ma'am, we're aware of it. Thank you. 472 00:27:55,215 --> 00:28:00,470 At least one of the residents, he came out three times, 473 00:28:01,096 --> 00:28:03,656 opened his door and said, "You need any help? You need any help?" 474 00:28:03,682 --> 00:28:06,601 And I kept telling him, "Get back in the house!" 475 00:28:06,685 --> 00:28:10,146 "Unless you have any 40 cal ammo, get back in there." 476 00:28:10,230 --> 00:28:11,147 [gunshots] 477 00:28:11,231 --> 00:28:13,858 I pulled up and I start just around the corner from Laurel Street. 478 00:28:15,110 --> 00:28:16,778 Put on my bulletproof vest. 479 00:28:18,905 --> 00:28:20,615 And as I'm walking around the corner, 480 00:28:20,699 --> 00:28:23,952 I see Officer Reynolds and Sergeant MacLellan. 481 00:28:24,035 --> 00:28:28,790 He was behind a tree returning gunfire, and he was giving them commands. 482 00:28:28,873 --> 00:28:30,583 [MacLellan] Give it up! Give it up! 483 00:28:30,667 --> 00:28:33,378 "Give it up. Give it up." You know, trying to get them to surrender. 484 00:28:33,461 --> 00:28:35,755 - [gunshots] - And they just continued to fire. 485 00:28:36,798 --> 00:28:40,802 What we thought at the time was two guns, muzzle flashes. 486 00:28:41,302 --> 00:28:44,514 And ultimately, we found out that they had one handgun, 487 00:28:44,597 --> 00:28:46,975 and the second muzzle flash that we saw, 488 00:28:47,475 --> 00:28:49,477 one of them was lighting the pipe bombs. 489 00:28:51,312 --> 00:28:53,022 That was our second muzzle flash. 490 00:28:53,648 --> 00:28:55,567 [gunfire] 491 00:28:59,529 --> 00:29:01,030 The last bomb that was thrown, 492 00:29:01,781 --> 00:29:05,785 I saw him get out of the vehicle, holding something with two handles, 493 00:29:06,286 --> 00:29:07,996 and I saw him go... 494 00:29:12,584 --> 00:29:14,252 [explosion] 495 00:29:14,335 --> 00:29:15,462 [man 5] God! 496 00:29:15,545 --> 00:29:16,796 [car alarms blaring] 497 00:29:17,964 --> 00:29:20,258 You could feel the percussion, but all's I can remember 498 00:29:20,341 --> 00:29:22,886 was like someone putting a white screen in front of your face. 499 00:29:25,472 --> 00:29:28,975 Gray black smoke, and then you felt stuff raining down on you. 500 00:29:29,058 --> 00:29:30,518 It was all the shrap metal. 501 00:29:30,602 --> 00:29:32,270 It was a pressure cooker. 502 00:29:32,353 --> 00:29:34,564 One of the clips unclipped, 503 00:29:34,647 --> 00:29:38,359 and it didn't come up to as much pressure as it should have. 504 00:29:38,443 --> 00:29:42,030 So if he had placed it instead of throwin' it, 505 00:29:42,113 --> 00:29:43,239 we would've been... 506 00:29:43,740 --> 00:29:46,284 We all would've been hurt. We were in the blast zone. 507 00:29:46,367 --> 00:29:47,494 [explosion] 508 00:29:47,994 --> 00:29:49,370 [Pugliese] It was a standoff. 509 00:29:49,454 --> 00:29:53,124 So, I decided that what I was going to do was cut through some backyards 510 00:29:53,208 --> 00:29:55,293 and come up on their side. Flank them. 511 00:29:55,376 --> 00:29:58,254 I went up a driveway, over a fence, 512 00:29:59,005 --> 00:30:01,341 through that backyard, over another fence. 513 00:30:01,424 --> 00:30:03,635 Went along the house fence line. 514 00:30:04,636 --> 00:30:07,722 That's when I saw them. And they were taking cover there. 515 00:30:08,223 --> 00:30:10,850 But I was a firearms instructor for the department, 516 00:30:10,934 --> 00:30:12,602 so I usually hit my target. 517 00:30:12,685 --> 00:30:15,313 - I took aim. I squeezed off a round. - [gunshot] 518 00:30:15,396 --> 00:30:19,901 I know I hit the guy. No reaction, so I try again. Bang. 519 00:30:20,568 --> 00:30:23,071 I know I hit him, and there's no reaction. 520 00:30:23,154 --> 00:30:25,990 I shot him nine times. It wasn't all torso shots. 521 00:30:26,074 --> 00:30:28,493 I got him in the feet. He just wouldn't go down. 522 00:30:28,993 --> 00:30:31,788 That's when he knew I was there, and he came running out. 523 00:30:32,288 --> 00:30:36,709 He and I were facing each other about six feet apart, exchanging gunfire. 524 00:30:36,793 --> 00:30:38,753 [gunshots] 525 00:30:40,713 --> 00:30:44,884 Fortunately, they just went all around me. It was like a Pulp Fiction moment. 526 00:30:44,968 --> 00:30:47,804 Die, you motherfuckers, die! 527 00:30:47,887 --> 00:30:49,180 [gun clicking empty] 528 00:30:57,021 --> 00:30:59,482 His gun stopped working. 529 00:30:59,566 --> 00:31:02,110 I didn't know if it jammed or ran out of ammunition. 530 00:31:02,193 --> 00:31:05,697 He was almost like in disbelief that he couldn't shoot his gun anymore. 531 00:31:05,780 --> 00:31:08,825 And he stopped, he looked at his gun, looked at me. 532 00:31:08,908 --> 00:31:12,787 We made eye contact, and he threw the gun, hit me on the shoulder. 533 00:31:12,871 --> 00:31:13,872 It dropped to the ground. 534 00:31:13,955 --> 00:31:17,083 And he turns towards us, all the guys shootin' at him, 535 00:31:17,166 --> 00:31:19,460 and just starts chargin' at us. 536 00:31:19,544 --> 00:31:23,631 My slide's back. I have no bullets in my gun, but he doesn't know that. 537 00:31:23,715 --> 00:31:26,435 The slide's back and I said, "I'm gonna kill you. Get on the ground." 538 00:31:26,509 --> 00:31:27,719 "I'm gonna kill you." 539 00:31:27,802 --> 00:31:29,721 And he just keeps... Dead eyes. 540 00:31:29,804 --> 00:31:32,807 Just keeps looking at me and just walkin' right towards me. 541 00:31:32,891 --> 00:31:35,611 [Pugliese] So I holstered up and chased after him, and I tackled him. 542 00:31:36,102 --> 00:31:37,729 [MacLellan] The kid just collapses. 543 00:31:38,396 --> 00:31:40,565 And he's violently resisting us. 544 00:31:41,065 --> 00:31:42,859 Just running on pure adrenaline. 545 00:31:42,942 --> 00:31:47,322 I had an empty gun. No bullets in it, but I had a gun. 546 00:31:47,906 --> 00:31:49,699 So I said, "I'm gonna knock him out." 547 00:31:49,782 --> 00:31:52,660 I tried as hard as I could to knock that kid out. 548 00:31:53,244 --> 00:31:57,206 Sergeant Pugliese got one cuff on him, and I'm just hittin' him as hard as I can. 549 00:31:57,290 --> 00:32:00,043 I'm tryin' to knock this kid out. Tryin' to make it easier. 550 00:32:00,627 --> 00:32:02,629 Tryin' to make sure that we don't die. 551 00:32:02,712 --> 00:32:06,341 Officer Reynolds is looking down the street, and he says, 552 00:32:06,424 --> 00:32:08,927 "Somebody got in the SUV. They turned around." 553 00:32:11,721 --> 00:32:14,182 [MacLellan] Coming towards us! Coming towards us! 554 00:32:15,975 --> 00:32:18,770 I looked again, and the headlights were right in my face. 555 00:32:19,354 --> 00:32:21,522 "Sarge, get off, get off." And I push. 556 00:32:21,606 --> 00:32:26,361 I just let go, and I felt the breeze of the vehicle go by my face. 557 00:32:27,445 --> 00:32:30,365 I watched the front wheels go over to the suspect. 558 00:32:30,448 --> 00:32:33,743 He bounced up between the undercarriage and the pavement three or four times, 559 00:32:33,826 --> 00:32:36,329 and he got dragged about 20, 25 feet. 560 00:32:36,412 --> 00:32:37,830 And it was like whack-a-mole. 561 00:32:37,914 --> 00:32:40,375 I mean, the car was going probably 40 miles an hour, 562 00:32:40,458 --> 00:32:42,752 and it was just so violent. 563 00:32:43,336 --> 00:32:45,171 [officer] Suspect just took off in an SUV! 564 00:32:45,254 --> 00:32:47,423 He ran over his partner! 565 00:32:47,507 --> 00:32:50,718 The car spit the body right out from under the car. 566 00:32:51,511 --> 00:32:53,721 The vehicle collided with one of our police cruisers 567 00:32:53,805 --> 00:32:54,931 that was stopped there. 568 00:32:55,014 --> 00:32:56,641 And you heard an engine racing, 569 00:32:56,724 --> 00:32:59,102 tryin' to break free of the collision. 570 00:32:59,185 --> 00:33:00,603 Then he broke free, 571 00:33:00,687 --> 00:33:02,146 sped off through an intersection. 572 00:33:02,230 --> 00:33:05,233 There was a barrage of gunfire from officers that had arrived on scene. 573 00:33:05,316 --> 00:33:07,610 [gunfire] 574 00:33:15,410 --> 00:33:18,746 [Pugliese] Uh, and he sped through the intersection, and he was gone. 575 00:33:19,247 --> 00:33:21,082 [ominous music] 576 00:33:33,136 --> 00:33:35,430 [police sirens wailing] 577 00:33:38,766 --> 00:33:40,393 [indistinct radio chatter] 578 00:33:41,394 --> 00:33:42,603 Move. Move. Move. Move. 579 00:33:46,232 --> 00:33:47,734 You gotta get outta here. 580 00:33:52,947 --> 00:33:54,615 And I roll up on scene. 581 00:33:54,699 --> 00:33:55,699 It's dark. 582 00:33:55,742 --> 00:33:56,826 It's chaotic. 583 00:33:56,909 --> 00:33:58,870 Officers screaming, yelling. 584 00:34:01,372 --> 00:34:04,584 [Martin] When I first arrived, there were police officers everywhere. 585 00:34:05,084 --> 00:34:08,421 You're hearing that there's a shootout. Bombs thrown at cops. 586 00:34:08,504 --> 00:34:10,298 It was absolutely surreal. 587 00:34:13,551 --> 00:34:15,762 [Foley] All of a sudden, we see police officers 588 00:34:15,845 --> 00:34:17,180 running down the road. 589 00:34:17,847 --> 00:34:19,057 Now we join them. 590 00:34:20,266 --> 00:34:25,521 We find out that we're chasing down to where the Mercedes SUV went. 591 00:34:27,148 --> 00:34:31,235 And we come across the SUV in this street. 592 00:34:33,571 --> 00:34:36,199 The door's open. No one's there. 593 00:34:37,075 --> 00:34:39,660 I said to myself, "I can't be doing this." 594 00:34:39,744 --> 00:34:42,580 "I need to organize this and come up with a plan." 595 00:34:43,456 --> 00:34:48,294 Yeah, it was frustrating that he got away, but I did think that he would be captured 596 00:34:48,377 --> 00:34:49,670 very shortly thereafter. 597 00:34:51,130 --> 00:34:52,465 [distant police sirens] 598 00:34:52,548 --> 00:34:57,637 With many police officers on the scene, and the suspect had gotten away, 599 00:34:57,720 --> 00:35:00,473 I think this was embarrassing, uh, to the police. 600 00:35:01,390 --> 00:35:05,561 [MacLellan] We need an ambulance at Laurel and Dexter for the suspect. 601 00:35:05,645 --> 00:35:08,231 Shot and run over, shot and run over. 602 00:35:08,314 --> 00:35:10,441 And the kid was in such bad shape. 603 00:35:10,525 --> 00:35:14,529 He was ripped from the armpit to his waist, was totally open. 604 00:35:14,612 --> 00:35:15,738 Still alive. 605 00:35:15,822 --> 00:35:17,115 They cut the clothes off 'im 606 00:35:17,198 --> 00:35:18,998 and they put him in the back of the ambulance, 607 00:35:19,033 --> 00:35:21,369 and started working on him, and then off they went. 608 00:35:21,452 --> 00:35:24,705 They took him into a Boston hospital, a major trauma center. 609 00:35:24,789 --> 00:35:26,791 [dramatic music] 610 00:35:31,796 --> 00:35:35,216 I get out of the car, and there was a federal agent there, 611 00:35:35,299 --> 00:35:38,052 and he said, "That's an unexploded ordnance on the ground." 612 00:35:38,136 --> 00:35:41,305 One of the fuse pipe bombs was lying on the ground. 613 00:35:42,056 --> 00:35:43,516 There was bullet holes everywhere. 614 00:35:43,599 --> 00:35:46,394 Through the stop signs, into the side of houses. 615 00:35:46,477 --> 00:35:48,479 Discarded handguns in the street. 616 00:35:49,021 --> 00:35:52,817 The thing that struck home with me was pressure cooker in the side of a car. 617 00:35:52,900 --> 00:35:56,404 You know, exactly the MO for the Marathon bombers. 618 00:35:57,029 --> 00:35:59,031 I'm like, "Oh my God. These are the guys." 619 00:36:00,366 --> 00:36:03,995 SWAT guy came up to me. He said, "Hey, Sarge, you know who you got here?" 620 00:36:04,078 --> 00:36:07,081 "You know who you got here?" And I thought he was asking me, like, who... 621 00:36:07,165 --> 00:36:09,458 I go, "Guys, these aren't Watertown kids." 622 00:36:10,710 --> 00:36:12,270 [Pugliese] Other people are showing up. 623 00:36:12,295 --> 00:36:14,255 They're saying, "You guys know who you got here?" 624 00:36:14,338 --> 00:36:17,884 I said, "A couple of carjackers." "No, you got the Boston Marathon bombers." 625 00:36:18,384 --> 00:36:19,302 Get outta here. 626 00:36:19,385 --> 00:36:20,928 "You got the Boston bombers." 627 00:36:21,012 --> 00:36:24,640 "These are the Marathon bombers." And he goes, "No, it was a stolen car." 628 00:36:25,141 --> 00:36:29,395 The cops involved in the shootout really didn't realize what they had. 629 00:36:29,478 --> 00:36:32,023 Holy shit. And then I'm thinking, "Bombs"? 630 00:36:32,773 --> 00:36:36,402 "You know, all this ammo. Jeez, I probably should have picked up on that earlier." 631 00:36:36,485 --> 00:36:39,322 But, you know, I'm not a detective. I'm a patrolman. 632 00:36:39,405 --> 00:36:40,406 [laughs] 633 00:36:40,489 --> 00:36:44,952 I'm not a cop. I understand that there are inherent dangers 634 00:36:45,036 --> 00:36:46,204 in a lot of situations... 635 00:36:46,287 --> 00:36:47,205 [gunfire] 636 00:36:47,288 --> 00:36:51,792 ...but to just shoot and shoot 210 shots from police alone... 637 00:36:51,876 --> 00:36:53,085 [man 5] This is no bullshit. 638 00:36:53,169 --> 00:36:55,379 [Martin] ...you put innocent lives in danger. 639 00:36:55,463 --> 00:36:56,839 [gunfire] 640 00:36:56,923 --> 00:37:00,885 I interviewed a man whose child was almost killed. 641 00:37:00,968 --> 00:37:02,803 The baby was sleeping in the room 642 00:37:02,887 --> 00:37:05,848 where a bullet came within inches of the baby's head. 643 00:37:07,391 --> 00:37:13,189 The fact that civilians in their homes weren't injured or killed was luck. 644 00:37:13,272 --> 00:37:18,569 What we're looking for is a suspect consistent with the description 645 00:37:19,070 --> 00:37:21,864 of suspect number two, the white-capped individual 646 00:37:22,365 --> 00:37:25,868 who was involved in Monday's bombing of the Boston Marathon. 647 00:37:26,369 --> 00:37:27,787 [reporter 1] Suspect 1 was shot? 648 00:37:27,870 --> 00:37:29,630 - That's correct. - [reporter 2] Is he alive? 649 00:37:29,664 --> 00:37:32,142 - [reporter 3] Is suspect 1... - We don't have names at this point. 650 00:37:32,166 --> 00:37:33,167 [reporter 2] Is he alive? 651 00:37:33,251 --> 00:37:36,295 Listen, this is an ongoing... This is an ongoing investigation. 652 00:37:36,379 --> 00:37:38,547 We can't... We can't get into details 653 00:37:38,631 --> 00:37:41,801 on the, uh... On the descriptions of the suspects or the names. 654 00:37:41,884 --> 00:37:45,137 We're trying to get information out to the people who live here. 655 00:37:45,221 --> 00:37:47,974 That they should stay in their homes and not open their doors 656 00:37:48,057 --> 00:37:49,767 unless police officers are there. 657 00:37:49,850 --> 00:37:51,769 [Davis] We had one suspect in custody. 658 00:37:51,852 --> 00:37:54,188 I was told that he had been taken from the scene. 659 00:37:54,272 --> 00:37:56,041 - [distant sirens] - [indistinct radio chatter] 660 00:37:56,065 --> 00:37:57,984 He was pronounced dead at the hospital. 661 00:37:59,318 --> 00:38:01,570 So we needed to identify the suspect 662 00:38:01,654 --> 00:38:03,489 to find out who these guys are. 663 00:38:03,990 --> 00:38:07,576 We scrambled to the hospital, and we rolled his prints. 664 00:38:08,411 --> 00:38:10,746 We know he's one of the bombers. 665 00:38:10,830 --> 00:38:14,125 We're all thinking, "Hopefully we've got him in the database." 666 00:38:15,293 --> 00:38:17,336 If we can figure out who he was, 667 00:38:17,420 --> 00:38:20,881 then this information could also lead us to the other suspect. 668 00:38:21,590 --> 00:38:24,802 We ran his fingerprints through numerous amount of federal databases 669 00:38:24,885 --> 00:38:26,887 to identify this individual. 670 00:38:26,971 --> 00:38:28,639 [intense music] 671 00:38:35,021 --> 00:38:36,272 [Foley] We got a hit. 672 00:38:38,024 --> 00:38:39,784 [DesLauriers] His name was Tamerlan Tsarnaev. 673 00:38:39,859 --> 00:38:41,099 - Tamerlan Tsarnaev. - Tamerlan. 674 00:38:41,152 --> 00:38:42,236 Tamerlan Tsarnaev. 675 00:38:43,321 --> 00:38:46,032 Immediately, we began the process of database checks 676 00:38:46,115 --> 00:38:48,409 to understand who this individual was. 677 00:38:48,492 --> 00:38:51,454 It's a massive information flow. 678 00:38:51,537 --> 00:38:53,914 We learn he's a Chechen national, 679 00:38:53,998 --> 00:38:56,917 been here for a number of years, right here in Cambridge. 680 00:38:57,418 --> 00:38:59,503 That was a huge break for the investigation. 681 00:38:59,587 --> 00:39:01,589 [ominous music] 682 00:39:04,759 --> 00:39:06,385 [Davis] I was in the command post. 683 00:39:06,469 --> 00:39:08,721 The door opened up, and Rick DesLauriers came in. 684 00:39:09,221 --> 00:39:12,683 He was upset. He was clearly frazzled. 685 00:39:13,517 --> 00:39:16,395 He said, "We know this guy. We've looked at him before." 686 00:39:16,937 --> 00:39:18,689 I was shocked, and I said, 687 00:39:19,273 --> 00:39:20,399 "How do you know him?" 688 00:39:20,483 --> 00:39:23,152 He said, "We received a report from the FSB, 689 00:39:23,235 --> 00:39:27,323 the Russian intelligence service, that this guy is a terrorist." 690 00:39:27,406 --> 00:39:29,867 There was a prior Guardian lead. 691 00:39:29,950 --> 00:39:32,787 The Guardian assessments are the lowest level of investigation 692 00:39:32,870 --> 00:39:35,456 that the FBI will conduct on a national security subject. 693 00:39:35,539 --> 00:39:39,335 That is when you have uncorroborated single-source information that comes in. 694 00:39:39,919 --> 00:39:41,319 [Davis] He said he questioned them, 695 00:39:41,379 --> 00:39:43,923 looked at the information that they provided us, 696 00:39:44,006 --> 00:39:45,591 and we closed the case. 697 00:39:45,674 --> 00:39:48,135 I said, "You guys had access to this information? 698 00:39:48,219 --> 00:39:50,679 "Why didn't you tell us that these guys were out there?" 699 00:39:53,349 --> 00:39:55,893 Nothing in that Guardian assessment would've led us to believe 700 00:39:55,976 --> 00:39:57,728 that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was gonna bomb 701 00:39:57,812 --> 00:39:59,814 the 2013 Boston Marathon. 702 00:40:01,232 --> 00:40:03,317 I was frustrated by that, and surprised. 703 00:40:03,984 --> 00:40:05,986 [foreboding music] 704 00:40:08,072 --> 00:40:10,074 [light bulbs buzzing] 705 00:40:14,078 --> 00:40:16,247 [man] Law enforcement is always trying to find 706 00:40:16,330 --> 00:40:18,249 the people who committed a crime 707 00:40:18,332 --> 00:40:20,000 or were suspected of committing a crime. 708 00:40:21,043 --> 00:40:24,422 I'm not trying to do that. I'm trying to understand the story. 709 00:40:25,631 --> 00:40:28,634 You're not born a monster who blows up a marathon 710 00:40:28,717 --> 00:40:30,177 and kills an eight-year-old. 711 00:40:32,138 --> 00:40:34,348 We need to know how this happens. 712 00:40:35,391 --> 00:40:36,809 How did he get there? 713 00:40:38,519 --> 00:40:40,521 That's why I'm here. I'm here for that. 714 00:40:48,946 --> 00:40:50,322 [explosions] 715 00:40:51,323 --> 00:40:52,533 [reporter] Hour after hour, 716 00:40:52,616 --> 00:40:55,744 the thunder of Russian guns rolls around this border area. 717 00:40:56,245 --> 00:40:57,997 They're aimed at Chechen militants. 718 00:40:58,080 --> 00:40:59,999 [explosions and artillery fire] 719 00:41:01,125 --> 00:41:04,628 In the late 1990s, Chechens were seen as people who were being persecuted, 720 00:41:05,296 --> 00:41:09,550 and the United States was willing to give refugee status 721 00:41:09,633 --> 00:41:11,427 to those fleeing persecution. 722 00:41:13,596 --> 00:41:18,100 Anzor Tsarnaev, Tamerlan's father, saw the American dream on Hollywood movies 723 00:41:18,184 --> 00:41:20,853 and decided that that's what he wanted. 724 00:41:22,188 --> 00:41:25,983 He gets to America with his wife and their four children. 725 00:41:26,484 --> 00:41:29,487 They move into this cramped apartment in the Boston area. 726 00:41:30,946 --> 00:41:33,199 By this point, Tamerlan is a teenager. 727 00:41:34,283 --> 00:41:38,370 He had learned to box in Kyrgyzstan, and he was talented. 728 00:41:38,913 --> 00:41:40,206 And his father saw this, 729 00:41:40,289 --> 00:41:42,750 and he wanted him to become a champion. 730 00:41:43,334 --> 00:41:44,251 Watch this guy. 731 00:41:44,335 --> 00:41:45,336 Very skilled man 732 00:41:45,419 --> 00:41:47,171 who's gonna take the championship for sure. 733 00:41:52,134 --> 00:41:56,764 [Allan] The first time I met Tamerlan was around 2008. 734 00:41:57,431 --> 00:41:58,933 His father had trained him. 735 00:41:59,016 --> 00:42:00,476 Very intense guy. 736 00:42:01,727 --> 00:42:03,395 He rode him to be the best. 737 00:42:04,188 --> 00:42:06,190 So Tamerlan, he was very on point. 738 00:42:06,857 --> 00:42:09,068 I was really impressed with his work ethic. 739 00:42:09,902 --> 00:42:11,904 And he was very effective in the ring. 740 00:42:11,987 --> 00:42:16,951 [boxing announcer] Ladies and gentlemen, Tamerlan Tsarnaev! 741 00:42:17,034 --> 00:42:19,245 He was like a man boxing kids. 742 00:42:19,328 --> 00:42:20,913 [intense music] 743 00:42:26,168 --> 00:42:27,461 [crowd cheering] 744 00:42:33,676 --> 00:42:34,760 Um, ahem... 745 00:42:35,844 --> 00:42:37,054 The year before the Olympics, 746 00:42:37,137 --> 00:42:39,014 he was doing phenomenally well 747 00:42:39,098 --> 00:42:41,183 and he was winning all of his matches. 748 00:42:41,267 --> 00:42:45,604 [boxing announcer] The winner! Tamerlan Tsarnaev! 749 00:42:45,688 --> 00:42:46,522 [applause] 750 00:42:46,605 --> 00:42:48,274 [boxing announcer speaking indistinctly] 751 00:42:51,402 --> 00:42:54,405 [Filipov] Anzor Tsarnaev would brag to his friends: 752 00:42:54,488 --> 00:42:57,116 "My son is gonna be on the US Olympic boxing team." 753 00:42:58,242 --> 00:43:01,328 I not only believed that he could make the Olympics, 754 00:43:01,412 --> 00:43:04,039 but he had a good chance of winning a medal. 755 00:43:04,123 --> 00:43:05,416 You excited? 756 00:43:05,499 --> 00:43:07,209 Yeah. Why not? 757 00:43:08,419 --> 00:43:09,670 You know? 758 00:43:10,754 --> 00:43:12,548 [Allan] But we later found out 759 00:43:12,631 --> 00:43:16,010 that he wasn't gonna be able to go to the Olympic trials. 760 00:43:17,261 --> 00:43:19,179 That right overhand's there all day. 761 00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:21,890 That left hook when he drops his right hand. 762 00:43:24,143 --> 00:43:25,603 The rule change was what did it. 763 00:43:26,270 --> 00:43:29,565 To make it onto the Olympic team, you had to be a US citizen. 764 00:43:29,648 --> 00:43:31,008 And Tamerlan, he wasn't a citizen. 765 00:43:32,151 --> 00:43:35,195 [Allan] The way he presented the Olympic situation to me 766 00:43:35,279 --> 00:43:36,655 boiled down to, 767 00:43:36,739 --> 00:43:40,326 "I'm Muslim, they don't want me to represent the United States." 768 00:43:40,409 --> 00:43:41,827 "So it's not gonna happen." 769 00:43:41,910 --> 00:43:43,746 I said, "You could go professional." 770 00:43:43,829 --> 00:43:45,956 "You know, there are many things we can do and..." 771 00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:47,374 "No, it's all rigged." 772 00:43:47,458 --> 00:43:50,711 "I'm Muslim, and it's not gonna work out for me." 773 00:43:50,794 --> 00:43:51,712 And at this point, 774 00:43:51,795 --> 00:43:55,132 you start to really sense his disillusionment. 775 00:43:55,883 --> 00:43:58,010 He really pushed deeper into religion. 776 00:43:58,093 --> 00:44:00,095 [ominous music] 777 00:44:01,722 --> 00:44:05,934 [man] One time we had a guest speaker, and the subject was Martin Luther King. 778 00:44:06,435 --> 00:44:09,396 And what he stood for. Uh, what kind of person he was. 779 00:44:09,980 --> 00:44:12,483 Tamerlan stood up and shouted. 780 00:44:12,566 --> 00:44:15,402 "Why are we to celebrate Martin Luther King?" 781 00:44:15,486 --> 00:44:16,570 "He's not a Muslim." 782 00:44:17,071 --> 00:44:20,074 "We should be following and celebrating only the Prophet." 783 00:44:20,949 --> 00:44:23,827 For anyone during a sermon to voice discontent 784 00:44:23,911 --> 00:44:26,205 as vehemently as he did, 785 00:44:26,705 --> 00:44:29,708 it was kind of really upsetting for everyone. 786 00:44:29,792 --> 00:44:32,670 Um, and very unusual. 787 00:44:32,753 --> 00:44:36,965 Tamerlan's rhetoric about the Zionist conspiracies 788 00:44:37,049 --> 00:44:38,509 became a lot more animated. 789 00:44:38,592 --> 00:44:41,804 I think Tamerlan used Islam as a tool 790 00:44:41,887 --> 00:44:46,225 to justify his discontent of where his life was going. 791 00:44:46,308 --> 00:44:48,560 The idea that it's not, "We failed." 792 00:44:48,644 --> 00:44:50,312 It's, "This society is built 793 00:44:50,396 --> 00:44:52,648 against Muslims, against us." 794 00:44:53,482 --> 00:44:55,526 [Allan] He would say that the Muslim nations 795 00:44:55,609 --> 00:44:56,735 were being stomped on 796 00:44:56,819 --> 00:44:57,945 by the West, 797 00:44:58,028 --> 00:44:59,530 their oil taken. 798 00:44:59,613 --> 00:45:02,408 Israel and the rich Jews were behind it. 799 00:45:02,491 --> 00:45:04,535 Kind of a global conspiracy. 800 00:45:04,618 --> 00:45:07,871 He's started to overtly associate with his religion. 801 00:45:07,955 --> 00:45:10,916 Was wearing the skull cap with a big beard. 802 00:45:10,999 --> 00:45:13,001 [ominous music] 803 00:45:18,841 --> 00:45:20,676 [man] Approximately 2:30 p.m. today, 804 00:45:20,759 --> 00:45:21,927 the Waltham police responded 805 00:45:22,010 --> 00:45:24,847 to this scene at 12 Harding Avenue. 806 00:45:24,930 --> 00:45:28,767 Uh, there are three dead bodies. Very graphic crime scene. 807 00:45:28,851 --> 00:45:32,563 This is a fluid, ongoing investigation. 808 00:45:32,646 --> 00:45:35,524 [news anchor] Two of the three victims lived nearby in Cambridge, Mass. 809 00:45:35,607 --> 00:45:38,444 The third victim was 25-year-old Brendon Mess. 810 00:45:38,527 --> 00:45:40,946 He was a local mixed martial arts fighter. 811 00:45:41,029 --> 00:45:43,824 Brandon Mess was Tamerlan's best friend at the time. 812 00:45:43,907 --> 00:45:46,910 They always came to the gym together. I know they went out together. 813 00:45:48,495 --> 00:45:51,290 The following day, Tamerlan came into the gym. 814 00:45:52,624 --> 00:45:54,001 I said to him, 815 00:45:54,084 --> 00:45:56,128 "Sorry to hear what happened to Brendan." 816 00:45:56,879 --> 00:46:00,424 His response really, really unsettled me. 817 00:46:00,507 --> 00:46:04,386 He said, "You do bad things, you sell drugs, 818 00:46:04,470 --> 00:46:06,722 that's the type of stuff that happens to you." 819 00:46:09,057 --> 00:46:11,351 Then suddenly, Tamerlan disappeared. 820 00:46:11,435 --> 00:46:12,644 And when he came back, 821 00:46:12,728 --> 00:46:13,937 he was quite different. 822 00:46:16,273 --> 00:46:19,693 [Filipov] Tamerlan goes to Dagestan in the summer of 2012. 823 00:46:22,404 --> 00:46:26,700 The FBI get a memo from the FSB, the Russian Security Service. 824 00:46:26,784 --> 00:46:29,995 Tamerlan had been recorded on a phone call saying the word "jihad." 825 00:46:32,206 --> 00:46:34,374 And that's what led to the Guardians screening. 826 00:46:35,334 --> 00:46:37,795 But the FBI had deduced that he doesn't pose a threat. 827 00:46:39,338 --> 00:46:40,338 They let him go. 828 00:46:40,380 --> 00:46:41,757 [sirens blaring] 829 00:46:44,468 --> 00:46:46,148 [DesLauriers] When we identified Tamerlan, 830 00:46:46,220 --> 00:46:48,222 we didn't know if any of his associates 831 00:46:48,305 --> 00:46:49,785 that might have more bombs out there. 832 00:46:49,848 --> 00:46:51,600 At that point we looked at his background, 833 00:46:51,683 --> 00:46:53,644 his friends, family members. 834 00:46:54,686 --> 00:46:57,856 We quickly learned his younger brother was named Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. 835 00:47:00,734 --> 00:47:02,986 We obtained his driver's license photograph. 836 00:47:03,654 --> 00:47:06,198 We matched that up with the photos from the bombing. 837 00:47:09,701 --> 00:47:10,577 At that point, 838 00:47:10,661 --> 00:47:12,329 we knew he was the second bomber. 839 00:47:13,372 --> 00:47:17,501 Black Hat is Tamerlan Tsarnaev. And Dzhokhar is White Hat. 840 00:47:17,584 --> 00:47:18,836 That's his brother. 841 00:47:19,336 --> 00:47:22,548 [DesLauriers] We needed to find Dzhokhar as quickly as possible. 842 00:47:23,632 --> 00:47:25,217 And we began the search 843 00:47:25,300 --> 00:47:26,844 for the second suspect. 844 00:47:26,927 --> 00:47:29,763 We were activating a grid search of Watertown. 845 00:47:29,847 --> 00:47:31,890 [DesLauriers] They go into a tactical mode, 846 00:47:31,974 --> 00:47:33,392 going 20 blocks out 847 00:47:33,475 --> 00:47:35,060 in every direction from that Mercedes, 848 00:47:35,143 --> 00:47:37,187 the car they dumped after the carjacking. 849 00:47:37,980 --> 00:47:40,023 [Evans] We were searching house by house, 850 00:47:40,107 --> 00:47:41,108 block by block 851 00:47:41,942 --> 00:47:43,151 from the middle out. 852 00:47:43,235 --> 00:47:46,864 Is he in the neighborhood? Did he get out? Is he back home? Where is he? 853 00:47:47,948 --> 00:47:49,988 [Davis] I've been involved in thousands of searches. 854 00:47:50,033 --> 00:47:54,288 You know, sometimes they get out, and other times they just hunker down. 855 00:47:54,371 --> 00:47:56,123 And I was hoping that it was the latter. 856 00:47:56,206 --> 00:47:58,208 [indistinct police radio chatter] 857 00:47:58,292 --> 00:48:01,336 But it had been two to three hours, and we hadn't found anyone. 858 00:48:02,254 --> 00:48:05,299 Every minute that passes is a possibility of him getting away. 859 00:48:05,382 --> 00:48:07,301 That was a scary moment in the investigation. 860 00:48:07,384 --> 00:48:09,428 We don't know how big of a group we're dealing with. 861 00:48:09,511 --> 00:48:13,932 We were anticipating the potential of the activation of a larger cell 862 00:48:14,016 --> 00:48:15,016 who would attack. 863 00:48:15,517 --> 00:48:17,895 This was a massive national manhunt, 864 00:48:17,978 --> 00:48:20,063 unprecedented in US law enforcement history. 865 00:48:20,939 --> 00:48:22,733 We're asking people to shelter in place. 866 00:48:22,816 --> 00:48:25,903 [reporter 1] The city on lockdown. This is unprecedented. 867 00:48:25,986 --> 00:48:27,821 [reporter 2] Several hundred police officers 868 00:48:27,905 --> 00:48:29,615 are scouring these streets 869 00:48:29,698 --> 00:48:31,116 for a man they are convinced 870 00:48:31,199 --> 00:48:32,409 is a terrorist 871 00:48:32,492 --> 00:48:34,620 who has come here to kill people. 872 00:48:37,831 --> 00:48:39,374 [ominous music]