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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.

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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.

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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.

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After the second flashbang gets thrown into the boat,

Dzhokhar pokes his head up.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.