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On that particular day, I was running my 18th Boston Marathon.

I'm a runner first and a policeman second.

That final stretch where I see all my officers along the route

coming into Boston, your adrenaline starts to flow.

My husband John and myself were there to watch

our daughter cross the finish line.

We were so excited. She had trained for months for this.

So we, we were there to support her.

It was just a party atmosphere.

I just remember looking up at the sky.

It was really blue and it was a beautiful day.

Jim was coming to meet me.

Jim and I had been on four dates before this and I remember

feeling nervous, so I texted him and said,

we're right in front of Marathon Sports when you get here.

I remember coming down the finish line and seeing

the excitement, the joy.

There's nothing better here in the City of Boston.

I remember waving to my wife and then crossing the finish line

in three hours and 34 minutes.

At about 2.45, we were in front of Marathon Sports

and the finish line was about 25 feet to our left.

John and I were standing side by side, watching for Nicole,

so we could see her coming and we could actually watch her

cross the finish line.

I could only hear ringing in my ear.

I saw people screaming, but I couldn't hear anything.

And then, it was all of a sudden, you know, snap,

and I could start to hear things.

We were laying in glass and soot

and I still hadn't made sense of what had happened.

I kind of took inventory of myself and knew that I was okay.

John instantly said, "Oh God, Karen, my leg, my leg."

There were just body parts on the ground around me and blood.

I looked down at my own legs.

My jeans were shredded and bloody and I could see the bone.

I remember thinking, I'm gonna lose my leg.

I remember having kind of a moment of tunnel vision.

I was trying to take in what was going on,

and the reality of it was overwhelming.

I looked down and that's when I saw how badly injured John was.

There was a huge gaping hole in his leg.

The muscle was sticking out, and with every heartbeat,

the blood was spurting out.

It was obvious that we were in terrible trouble.

And at that moment...

...the second bomb went off.

Oh, God. Oh, my God.

CPT. I was trying to break down the,

the fences, the barriers, to get to people.

The victims themselves really weren't doing the screaming

and crying. It was more the, the onlookers.

The people who were really hurt were almost in shock.

Help me.

John was saying, "I'm tired.

"I just wanna go to sleep." I said, "John, don't go to sleep.

"Don't close your eyes, keep talking to us."

Because we were afraid if he closed his eyes,

he'd never open them again.

Get out the zone. Get out the zone.

I was running late to get to the Marathon's finish line.

I had got a text from Michele saying that she was in front of

Marathon Sports and I remember calling her

and getting her voicemail.

That was pretty scary, because I didn't know what had happened,

so I just left her a voicemail to give me a phone call

and let me know that she was okay.

I can confirm that two devices just went off

at Boylston and Exeter.

All units, extreme caution.

All units be advised about explosive devices.

Guys, everyone use caution, please.

- UCC, did I hear that correctly? - Yeah, CH, can confirm that,

It was clear that two bombs had gone off in rapid

succession and that we had been attacked by what I thought to be terrorists.

We believed that there may be a third device.

Al-Qaeda often hits in threes and we thought we'd have another

bomb on scene.

So I called the head of the FBI.

Commissioner Davis?

He said, Rick, send your SWAT teams and send your bomb technicians

as soon as possible. Well, I turned on the TV.

I was sick to my stomach.

I knew that from that moment on that we were gonna do everything

we possibly could to solve this crime as quickly as we possibly could.

Why would anybody do this thing to us?

What was going through their mind?

Why would they do it?

Why? Why are these people doing this?

They hurt individuals that they don't even know,

have no reason to do it.

How... What's, how sick can they be?

Heavy trauma. Exeter and Boylston intersection.

Exeter and Boylston, heavy trauma. Exeter and Boylston,

It worried me enormously and it worried all of us.

We didn't know what we were dealing with.

There was a very, very important conversation that I convened.

And I had the FBI and the ATF and the whole alphabet soup

of law enforcement entities. State, local and federal.

And I said, "Look, we need one agency in charge of the investigative

"part of this, and who's it gonna be?

"I don't care who it is, but let's all decide now

"who it's gonna be.

Everyone said, "We think it should be the FBI."

It was an enormous responsibility.

I felt like the weight of the world was on my shoulders.

I immediately called my assistant special agents in charge.

Rick.

So I get a call from Rick DesLauriers saying,

"You need to get back as soon as possible."

I was in Arizona, with my family and I said, I will, just the next flight.

We were under attack, this was war.

You know, words didn't do it justice.

I mean, Boston doesn't deserve this.

It was devastating, it truly was.

My wife actually turned to me, she said, "You go get them."

Often times in international terrorism cases,

an international terrorism groups

such as Al-Qaeda, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Tehrik-i-Taliban

will claim responsibility very shortly after an attack is launched.

We didn't have that in this instance.

Nobody claimed responsibility for the attack.

We didn't know if they were intent upon setting

more bombs off.

We had to do everything we possibly could do get them identified

and arrested as quickly as possible.

They took John through the doors to the OR.

I kissed him and told him I loved him,

then I watched him as far as I could until he disappeared.

I was in shock. It didn't really seem like it had happened.

We were standing on the sidewalk

to watch the end of a marathon.

And now, we're in a hospital and John's dying.

I was essentially a civilian surgeon

dealing with a military wound.

I was praying to God that he would save John

and I didn't let myself truly believe

that this is how our life together was going to end.

A tremendous number of bags of blood

had already been given to the patient.

And then, Mr. Odom's heart stopped.

We still do not know who did this or why,

and people shouldn't jump to conclusions before we have all the facts.

But make no mistake, we will get to the bottom of this

and we will find out who did this, we'll find out

why they did this.

Any responsible individuals, any responsible groups,

will feel the full weight of justice.

We brought in hundreds and hundreds of FBI agents

from across the country, primarily to assist

in our evidence collection process.

From the Command Post in Boston we were delegating leads,

ferrying up officers, troopers, agents,

just dispatching them to interview people at the hospitals,

down at the marathon scene,

and this was all being tracked on the computer.

What have we got?

People were going through any possible suspects,

any sort of technical surveillance coverage

that they may have at the time, anything that cryptically

or not that would be, mentioned Boston, the marathon,

and it was being done across the country.

State Department, CIA, everyone was looking at what they had.

There were a multitude of national

and international media organizations that were filming

the Boston Marathon.

You had buildings in that area that had cameras deployed

on them anyway, and so it was one of the most photographed spots

in Boston that day.

We had FBI agents scouring the streets,

acquiring all the video evidence that could possibly contain

relevant information.

I turned the corner to head to the finish line

to see my daughter.

Penetrating wounds, people that were impaled.

The first patient rolled in.

He was near death and then it was just one after another

after another.

I had to believe that John was going to be fine.

I couldn't let myself believe that he could actually die.

Dr. Kalish came out...

Mrs. Odom.

...and he couldn't make good eye contact with me.

He's had severe injuries to his legs.

And that was worrisome to me

because I was afraid of what he was gonna say next.

I said, Your husband's alive.

Thankfully his heart started again,

but I don't know where this is going yet.

We're gonna take it hour by hour.

I couldn't promise them that he was gonna make it out

of the hospital alive.

We just didn't know how many terrorists we had out there,

so a slow, methodical search for evidence was underway.

I think we all realized we had a job to do,

and that was to get whoever was responsible for blowing up our city.

We were on our hands and knees

recovering physical evidence and we'd come across a hand

or a leg, and that was really tragic.

Fellow citizens' legs and arms and hands, you know?

Nothing can train you for that.

Of course we're also learning more

about the victims now.

At least three people have died, including an eight-year-old boy.

More than 140 other people were wounded.

Witnesses are describing horrific injuries.

CPT. There were two bodies

that were left at the scene.

We had a young boy, later determined to be about

eight-years-old, and a young woman, about 21 or 22.

So one of my officers went into the restaurant and took

tablecloths off the restaurant tables and brought them out

and out of respect for the bodies, put tablecloths over the kids'.

Most of the men there were fathers and they could only

empathize with the victims' parents and siblings,

so the decision was made that we would just stand by regardless,

taking turns to stand vigil over these two young people

until they could be properly removed.

Tuning in right now...

I remember the news being very specific,

that the bomb had gone off in front of Marathon Sports.

The scene must have been complete pandemonium,

people just running...

Looking at my phone, I finally put it together.

Literally her text message was, "I am in front of Marathon Sports."

I distinctly remember realizing that she probably was killed in the blast.

And I think at that point I really was taken back that I had

just met this girl and that she had just been taken from my life.

Everybody's in shock.

Literally unbelievable, you just can't imagine

that somebody would wanna...

You could see the terror that was created here

in the city by this bombing.

I was haunted by the possibility

that more bombs could go off.

That was a potential possibility until we arrested the subjects.

We didn't know who the perpetrators were,

what their reasons were, no-one had taken responsibility.

Frankly, we didn't know whether it was over.

What's next? You know, what's next for Boston?

What's next for somewhere else in the country?

I mean, it was unknown.

You can do that in the Boston Marathon, you can do that anywhere.

A great deal of effort went into building

this crime scene starting that Tuesday morning.

The main thing we were looking for was parts

of the bomb.

Anything possible that could lead us to, number one,

what was the device used

and who could possibly make this type of device?

From the device, you can find how sophisticated the bombs are,

so that was a key piece of our evidence.

The next morning, I got a phone call.

This phone call actually woke me up.

Hello?

It was Michele on the phone.

I just had this overwhelming feeling

that I needed to connect with him and talk to him and it was kind of,

you know, like an, almost an out-of-body experience,

just having this feeling.

Like, that was the person that I needed to talk to.

I was a little surprised to hear from her

because, you know, just the night before, I'd thought she was dead.

And I just said, Can you come today?

and he said, "Yeah, I can come today."

It was really overwhelming.

We were finding evidence quite quickly.

We were finding stuff at every step,

especially the closer we got to the scene of the blast

where the bombs actually exploded.

We found so many pieces of ball bearings,

individually and then chunks of them together that were held

together by Vaseline.

Ball bearings are a classic item

that terrorists would use to injure and maim.

They disperse and devastate.

It's like little mini bullets, shrapnel that go everywhere.

A lid from a pressure cooker had blown up onto a lower roof

of a local hotel,

so we now knew this was a pressure cooker bomb.

We were dealing with some serious people who had done

some research.

Still did not know who it would be.

I called my mom and I said,

I need you to bring me my brush, 'cause I knew Jim was coming

and I wanted to brush my hair.

I don't think so.

And there were these just pieces of, you know,

debris and stuff all in my hair and my mom said,

"This is nylon, you know, what could this be?"

and that was, the nurse kind of said,

I think we need to go let somebody know about this.

So we were finding tiny shreds of fabric.

If the bomb was in a backpack, it would shred

and that is what we were finding, is the shreds.

So those were some early signs that, you know,

the bomb was likely placed into a backpack.

I had only gone out with Michele about

four times and I was nervous about going to see her.

I didn't know her family or really even know her friends.

But she invited me right in.

I just remember him coming in with flowers and thinking,

"Oh he's such a good guy, he brought me flowers."

I think I was surprised at the extent of her injuries.

Thanks for stopping by.

And I was a little taken back.

She was going into a surgery just, you know,

in the next hour, and I don't think I expected that at all.

Time was very much of the essence.

We needed to find them to stop them,

and there was a great deal of pressure to get it right

and to do it fast.

Who are they, where are they and is this gonna go on again?

At this point, we had hundreds of thousands of photographs

from viewers, media and the retail stores.

We received packages of photographs.

People would download pictures off their phones

and they would send them in.

We were just looking for something that stuck out.

The most important videos early on

were going to be the ones that were directed at the crime scenes,

so that we could identify who put the devices down,

'cause somebody had to put the device down.

We were looking for signs of anomalous activity.

Individuals who didn't look like they were there

to watch the marathon.

Individuals who might have been pacing back and forth.

Individuals who might have been carrying something

that could have contained an explosive device.

Individuals placing such a container down at a particular moment

in time near the bombings.

There was an awful lot of video and, you know,

that in itself took time.

There's this impression from CSI

that you solve everything in ten minutes with video forensics.

But it's just tenacious labor of looking at the video,

over and over and over again.

Each time you watch a video, you see different things.

It's perception. What you perceive and what you can pull

from a video changes over time.

I think we all felt pressure.

We didn't want anything to be lost, to miss something,

so we'd watch it over and over and over and the pressure was extreme.

I think you just go on adrenaline. They're out there

on the street and we just wanted to find them

as soon as possible.

Michele went in for her second surgery.

I think at that point I just needed kind of a break

from everything, and I hadn't eaten yet,

so I stopped at a little Chinese food restaurant.

I didn't have anyone to talk to, really, I didn't feel like it at the time,

and I think emotionally, at that point, everything finally caught up to me.

And I was eating my food and I was completely crying

into my meal and I just remember there was only one other person

in the restaurant, it was a Boston police officer.

You know, I think everyone knew what was going on in the city that day

and I think they... Nobody questioned me or looked at me at all.

Hours of the same video,

hours of watching the bombing over and over and over again.

You know, I would be lying if I said that it didn't take a toll on us.

It's very difficult to watch that.

I saw the bomb actually go off so many times,

it will stick in my head forever.

Oh, my.

You gotta see this.

Watch this.

There.

Backpack.

No backpack.

My supervisor,

who was leading the effort to review the video evidence,

called me and said, "Boss, I believe we have at least

"one of the bombers identified."

It was a dramatic and tragic video.

It was disturbing.

It brought tears to our eyes.

It brought tears to our eyes each time we watched it.

It was a video that showed the crowd that was watching

the marathon, and we identified one individual in that crowd.

He was wearing a white hat and he was walking back and forth,

talking on his cell phone.

It was just the slightest movement

that you end up seeing a backpack, and you actually see

the individual put it down.

He was walking away from the scene

of the explosion about 15 seconds or so before

the second bomb went off.

This was an enormous breakthrough.

One thing that was very distinctive for us was

the white hat, and so from that point on he was known to us

as "White Hat".

That's my mission, that's my guy, that's who we're going after.

That image, well, it was chilling because it's one thing to

have someone describe that a homemade explosive device

was placed at this point, that point, and set off this way and that way.

It's another thing to associate that with a human being,

with a face, and to try to imagine

what kind of person does that.

What kind of person enables that kind of destruction of innocence?

He was considered armed and extremely dangerous,

but we did not know where he was.

There is no magic bullet to get the identity of this man.

The image that we have is extremely grainy.

Not even a great photo of this individual.

So now our team objective is to identify where that individual

and when that individual came onto the crime scene itself,

and was that individual with anybody else when they came onto the crime scene?

The citizens of Massachusetts

and the City of Boston should expect to see the FBI and its JTTF partners

conducting investigative activity in the greater Eastern Massachusetts

and Boston area.

We all had that uncertainty of not knowing when the next bomb

would go off, and that drove the urgency of finding

this individual.

When I woke up from surgery, that's where the smell came back.

You kind of just roll on your side and you get a whiff of the explosion.

It smells like sulfur, and maybe like metal

and then I remembered everything.

I couldn't really move my left leg at all and I remember

looking at the nurse and saying, I'm not gonna lose anything?

and she said...

No, honey, you're not gonna lose anything.

Michele was just coming out of her surgery.

You know, she was tired from being under the anesthesia,

but she was just still smiling.

Every time you saw her, in as much pain that she was in,

she was always smiling and happy.

That was the first night that I spent with her there

and I don't think I left her for more than a day

for, you know, her whole stay at the hospital.

And he held my hand every single night that he was there.

So we could tell from the video footage

that White Hat had made a phone call, so, you know,

we knew there was a phone in play.

Had he made a call while he was at the crime scene,

he was calling somebody else,

in our belief that was our hunch that was involved.

But it also gave us another known point,

a time and a location where a telephone call had been made.

Everyone who carries a phone is emitting a signal

and so what we're doing is we're looking for phones

that are giving off signals in that area at that time,

and that's easier said than done.

Remember, you have a scene where there's

hundreds of thousands of people making telephone calls.

You are looking for a needle in a haystack.

Time was very much of the essence.

We have to stop any future bombing,

because there was a great deal of pressure.

It was trickling from the White House back.

It was non-stop, the pressure was enormous.

I'm at the command post and my phone goes off

and it's my mother. She never calls.

Hey, mom, what's going on?

She goes, "I just wanna congratulate you.

You did a great job, you captured him."

- Who? - "The suspect."

I'm going to interrupt Diana to bring John King back.

John, you're working your sources,

you're getting more information, what else are you learning?

Wolf, we have information.

One of our sources is a Boston law enforcement source

who tells me that an arrest has been made in this investigation.

A dramatic shift. We're waiting for the...

It was reported on CNN that we had had someone under arrest,

when we clearly had not arrested anybody at that time.

According to this official,

an arrest has been made and it is based not on one,

but on two different video images of the suspect at the bomb site.

There was a frenzy going on where the media

was looking for any information they possibly could.

There are various media reports that an arrest has been made.

They knew that we were racing to find

those responsible before more bombs went off.

We are just not comfortable,

based on our sources at this hour, reporting that.

We used to talk about a 24 hour

news cycle, now it's the ten second news cycle.

Everybody wants to be first and it's very difficult

to verify the information if speed is your only consideration.

...CNN is now reporting that a suspect has been arrested,

they are expected in court, so do stay with us.

It did frustrate us.

Inaccurate or speculative media reporting,

especially that claiming that we had somebody under arrest,

it requires us to provide some kind of media response which

takes up my time, it distracts me from the investigation.

It was detrimental to the investigation, there's no question.

I went on the radio to all the cars

and all the officers on the street and announced.

There's been no arrest.

Continue to do what you're doing and watch for your safety.

We knew we still had a terrorist out there, armed and dangerous.

John was in the ICU.

He was on a ventilator.

He had tubes and machines all around him.

I asked the doctors, "Just tell me he's going to make it."

I can live with anything, and they said, "We can't do that."

We don't know yet.

The evening of Wednesday, April 17th...

You gotta see this.

...Massachusetts State Police Lieutenant Colonel Frank Matthews

came up to the eighth floor of the FBI building

and he said...

I think we have an accomplice.

"I think we have another subject."

Hey, Rick. Get it up on here.

LT. This is a security camera at the corner

of Gloucester and Boylston at around 2:37.

They have a video with our individual

walking with the white hat, with another individual,

a larger person, with a similar backpack.

And they make their way along Boylston.

They were walking in stride together,

they clearly were together, and that gentleman, you know,

had a black hat on.

LT. And then they walk away from camera

toward the bomb site.

So at this point, we now had two subjects,

White Hat and Black Hat.

And we were calling them White Hat and Black Hat

from that point on.

Black Hat had put down the first bomb

and then White Hat had put down the second.

Our biggest concern right now was that

there were multiple people out there that could do harm.

We were afraid that, you know, this could be a bigger cell of terrorists

that they could be operating in the city.

You know, this was one target. What might they hit next?

There was some debate about whether to release

the photographs of Black Hat and White Hat.

It's a complicated call.

Well, obviously the pros of releasing the pictures

would be someone would recognize the terrorists.

There was a real possibility that someone would say,

"Hey, I know that guy."

My perspective was one of a local police chief

that's concerned with public safety,

so I was very adamantly attempting to get the photos put out.

But some investigators would much rather keep the photo to themselves

and attempt to run them, run the individuals down very quietly.

It was the belief of many executive managers

in both the FBI, the Massachusetts State Police

and other agencies that the release of these photos

was the last thing we wanted to do.

We believed that if we had 12 to 24 more hours,

that our phone analysis would have yielded a result.

These individuals think that they got away with it.

We're letting them play out their hand,

thinking that we don't know who they are.

But yet we're kind of, we're zeroing in on them,

so if you're releasing a photo when you're trying to determine

if it's them, do they take off?

You know, does it cause them to then act?

I got up early on Thursday.

Since Monday I hadn't run,

and usually I take two days after a marathon,

but I needed it mentally.

So I ran about four miles that day, got my legs moving again.

Emotionally, that was key for me.

Thursday morning we had the privilege of when President Obama came in.

I'm here today on behalf of the American people

with a simple message.

Every one of us has been touched by this attack

on your beloved city.

For millions of us, what happened on Monday is personal.

People were still in fear,

and I think it brought a sense of security to people.

Even when it hurts,

even when our heart aches,

we summon the strength that maybe we didn't even know we had,

and we carry on, we finish the race.

It was very important to have that

because that was a healing service, really.

People came together and it was to get through this together.

It was quite emotional for me because I've run 44 marathons,

and my wife and child have stood

in those same situations that these victims were,

but for the grace of God that could've been,

could've been my wife and kids.

I know I took it personal, I know our officers took it personal.

I couldn't believe that they bombed our marathon

and they bombed our city.

That day we debated in my conference room

as to whether we display the video evidence that we had,

or whether we continued with our behind the scenes investigation.

There was some debate.

There were... There were good points on both sides.

But we did not want to have more bombs go off in Boston

or anywhere else,

and the quickest way that we could identify these individuals

was to share that video evidence with the American public,

so we were planning to display it that same evening,

so about 20 after five.

Hello?

Later on that day,

our media coordinator was contacted by a media outlet

who informed him, "We have a photograph of White Hat."

Well, send it over. I'll take a look.

And they said, "We are going to release it at 4:30 today."

Right, I'll get back to you.

We were furious and, at my level,

what I knew was our timeframe to conduct our covert investigation

was limited at best.

Okay, listen up.

We know someone in this office is leaking information to the media.

And I said, We will investigate it and we will charge you

if we can figure out that you did it.

Hello?

I had a conversation with the producers from that organization.

I asked them to hold off on releasing the photos

by an hour or two.

We wanted to display those photos on our terms and our conditions.

We wanted to be able to describe the photos.

We didn't wanna have somebody else describe those photos for us.

You can understand what we're up against here.

Our concern was that if we released these photographs,

that the individuals responsible

for the terrorist acts could become desperate

and cause additional acts of violence.

It's frustrating because the media was driving the investigation

and our hand was forced.

Today, we are enlisting the public's help to identify the two suspects.

After a very detailed analysis of photo, video and other evidence,

we are releasing photos of these two suspects.

They are identified as Suspect One and Suspect Two.

Suspect one is wearing a dark hat.

Suspect Two is wearing a white hat.

With the media's help, in an instant,

these images will be delivered directly into the hands

of millions around the world.

We know the public will play a critical role in identifying

and locating these individuals.

I'd left campus at 9:30 and, um,

as I was coming up the ramp to Vesa Street,

over to the right was a marked MIT cruiser,

so any time I see one of the vehicles,

I always stop or wave or acknowledge them.

So I pulled up next to him, rolled my passenger window down,

and it was Officer Sean Collier.

I asked him what he was doing and he said,

"I'm just keeping the campus safe",

and I said, "Okay, just be careful."

Will do, sir.

I'll talk to you later.

And I drove away.

It was a very brief, probably less than a minute conversation.

Investigators decided today to ask for public help

in identifying two men agents are now the most

interested in running down.

We consider them to be armed and extremely dangerous.

No-one should approach them.

No-one should attempt to apprehend them except law enforcement.

Photos of the suspects are on the website

fbi. gov.

You don't know what's going to result

from the release of those pictures.

You're hoping that the release of those photos is going to

result in the identification and capture of the individuals.

But the problem was the release of these photos could cause

the subjects to essentially become desperate

and commit more violent acts.

I seldomly answer the phone at my house.

With two teenagers, it's never for me.

But for some reason, I answered the phone that night.

Hey, Jay.

And on the other end of the line was Deputy Chief Jay Perrault

and he said to me, Chief, Sean Collier's been shot.

So I said, "Jay, I'm heading in."

Sean Collier is a very, very engaging young man.

He's 27 years old.

In one sense, he's wise beyond his years, but in another sense,

he's a young kid that wants to have a good time.

He absolutely lives life to the fullest.

I stopped at the scene.

Sean was not there, they had taken Sean to the hospital.

Jay.

I called Jay again.

He answered the phone and he said,

"Chief, I was just gonna call you. Sean's dead."

It was unbelievable.

Absolutely unbelievable.

This just can't be.

Breaking news from the Boston area,

that shooting at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

- Andrew Griffin... - My wife, who is very sharp

on such things, she said, "I bet those are your subjects.

I bet releasing the video evidence flushed them out

and they're on the run right now, and I bet that they're the ones

that murdered that police officer."

And at the time I didn't believe her.

This is becoming a much, much bigger story,

the scope of which we're not quite clear on.

P. There's no doubt that this team

went active again after the photos, because they felt pushed to do that.

It was impossible to foresee that they would attack

a university police officer,

but I think he was a target of opportunity.

I regret that Sean Collier was killed.

I wish there was something else that we could have done,

but I'm happy that at least those pictures were out there.

I think it was a terrible choice we had to make,

but I can see very, very bad ramifications if we hadn't made it.

SGT.- I arrived into roll call at- 30 p.m.

on the 18th.

We were told that we had a very serious incident happen

in the bordering town, which is Cambridge.

They told us that an officer at MIT

had been shot and killed.

The hairs stick up on the back of your neck a little bit

and you kind of prepare yourself mentally.

Be safe. Be on the lookout.

You kind of get ready for, you know, tonight,

something might happen.

Officer at MIT was shot several times

around 10:48 this evening.

They say a suspect is still at large.

A man knocks on the window.

I rolled down the window a little bit.

Suddenly he put his hands in, opened the door from inside,

jumping in the car.

- Drive! - Okay.

- Drive! - Okay, okay. Okay, I'll drive.

I thought this just a robbery,

you know, that what I was thinking.

You know what happened at the marathon on Monday?

Yes.

I did that.

I just drove for four or five miles,

Then he said, "Stop here, right behind the car."

All right, don't freak out, then I won't kill you.

He told me to get out of the car

and to sit on the passenger seat.

That's when I saw another guy.

He opened the trunk and they moved, like,

four or five packages from the other car to my car.

They have some conversation in their own language.

I only heard one word, "Manhattan."

So I think they are trying to go to New York.

Can your car go out of state?

Yes.

There's no gas.

We need to find a gas station.

We just kept driving for three or four miles

and finally found a gas station in Cambridge.

I already had a plan in my mind.

The gun was in the pocket of the door.

If I didn't make it, he will kill me right away,

But if I didn't do anything, he would kill me later.

So I think this is my last opportunity.

This is my chance to run.

So I took a deep breath.

This was my last chance to run. I prayed.

In my mind, I said, "One,

two,

three,

four."

I was just run as fast as I can, I never look back.

There was another gas station across the street.

I pray, please the store is open.

Please, call 911, there's two men with guns,

two men with guns tried to kill me.

80-14 clear.

When I started my patrol,

it was a regular night. Actually, a very nice night.

I was patrolling for less than 10 minutes

when the dispatcher told us to be on the lookout

for a black Mercedes that was taken at gunpoint.

I was on Dexter Ave and I saw two vehicles.

I first saw a Honda Civic and then behind the Honda Civic

was a black Mercedes SUV that we were looking for.

And I looked in the vehicle, I made eye contact

with the operator of that vehicle and knew that this was

the exact vehicle that we were looking for.

The hairs stuck up on the back of my neck and I knew, you know,

we're gonna have something.

SGT. As I was coming down Dexter

I could see Officer Reynolds' vehicle.

He takes a U-turn and gets in behind the vehicle,

and I'm about a 100 yards behind him.

SGT. And I said...

Okay, Joey, light them up.

SGT. At that point

I thought it was just a regular carjacking.

Turned out to be very different.

He turned left onto Laurel Street,

and the vehicle started travelling slowly.

The vehicle then stopped.

And I started to get a little bit nervous, trying to figure out what's he gonna do.

I was about to get out to confront him.

The suspect opened his driver's side door.

He jumped out, he started walking towards me...

And I could feel my heart, like, really start pumping.

That's the point where I got scared.

I first heard what I thought were firecrackers

and I said to him, "They're starting so early,

it's not even 4th of July yet."

You know, "What the hell is going on?"

I opened the window and I said,

"Get outta here." I said, you know,

"Go to your own neighborhood."

And then I saw a police car.

I see the guy shooting with a gun

and then I realized something's going on, you know?

As I turned onto Laurel Street, I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

Officer Reynolds is in reverse and he's coming back

right past me.

I see the suspect wheel over towards me and he fires one round at me.

I couldn't believe it, I was like,

"These guys are shooting at us." This is, you know, this is it.

I emptied my first magazine, 13 bullets,

in eight seconds.

Before this moment, I've never had to fire my gun.

And I got on the air and I said...

Shots fired, shots fired!

So I jump up into the driver's seat and put it in drive.

I jumped out and tried to use the vehicle as cover.

But again, the rounds were hitting off my cruiser.

He's gonna get me with one of these shots.

So I made the decision. I jumped out.

Officer Reynolds sees me and he jumps over.

I can't believe that this is happening.

I could see a second suspect

lighting what I thought was a wick or something,

and then throwing it towards us.

It almost looked like a branch,

a big heavy branch, but when it hit,

ping, ping, ping...

...and I'm looking at it.

The house shook.

This house actually shook.

I said, We're gonna die here tonight.

It shook my eyeballs sideways.

I had to shake my head to try to clear my head.

One-eleven, one-eleven, control.

Uh, we have reports that they have explosives here at the scene.

There are explosives here at the scene.

Are you responding there, five four?

I stepped on the gas.

I think I travelled a mile and a quarter in under a minute.

I turned onto Laurel Street.

I could hear gun fire the entire time I was approaching.

And that's when the pressure cooker bomb went off.

SGT. The second bomb comes at us.

I get a hand on my shoulder and it was Officer Reynolds.

He's like, Sarge, run!

I thought it would be best to

try to flank the suspects.

I started cutting through two houses

towards where the suspects were.

One of the individuals realized I was there.

He left his position of cover,

came up the sidewalk and was firing at me.

I thought my bullets were hitting him,

but he didn't seem to be reacting like they were.

You know, you watch the movies.

You know, somebody gets shot, they fly back 10 ft

and collapse, one bullet. That's not reality.

You know, reality is people can take bullets

and continue to fight.

I was firing back and then I pulled the trigger

and nothing happened.

And then his gun jammed

and he looked down at the gun in, like, disbelief

that, like, "What's wrong with my gun?"

And then he threw that gun and took off.

SGT. He's in the dead center of the street

coming towards the police officers,

and he doesn't have a gun in his hand?

Then he probably has a device on him or wearing it

and he's gonna wait for us to get him and then he's gonna blow us up.

That's what I was thinking in my head.

I chased right after him

and tackled him to the ground.

He just kind of crumbled underneath me.

SGT. I'm like, Sarge, bombs, get off him,

get off him, get off him!

He's like, No, we gotta cuff him, we have to cuff him.

Had his right hand behind his back

just that left arm was just moving around like crazy.

At this point, you know, we didn't know if he had another explosive device,

a detonator switch and he could have blown himself up or us with him.

And I heard just the roar of an engine and I looked up and I saw the Mercedes.

Sarge, this is it.

I yelled to Sergeant Pugliese,

Sarge, disengage, get off him, here comes the car.

I grabbed the suspect

and I was trying to drag him out of the street.

The next thing I knew was the headlights were right beside my head.

The suspect got hung up on the rear wheels of the vehicle,

he got dragged about 20, 25 feet.

I got up, got on top of the suspect again,

got his right hand behind his back.

Officer Reynolds came up and the two of us handcuffed him.

Somebody said, you know, "Do you know who these guys are?"

and, you know, myself and the other officers are like,

"No, just a couple of carjackers, you know, that kind of went crazy here,"

and, "No, these are the Boston bombers."

You know, we were, like, "What?"

Officer down! We need help!

SGT. At that point I'm hearing Officer down.

Sarge, one of ours is down.

I grab my oxygen mask and my medic bag

and I, you know, I sprinted over to where they were.

It was Officer Dic Donohue from the transit police.

I could see the blood that was, you know,

pooling around us. He was bleeding out pretty profusely.

You know, I was looking into his eyes and telling him,

You're gonna be okay, you're gonna be all right.

Breathe.

SGT. It was seconds as that point, you know,

we have to get this kid to the hospital, we have to get him there.

The gurney never even came out, they just picked the officer up

and threw him into the back of the ambulance.

I didn't think he was gonna live and I thought that night

that they were lying to us that they said he was still alive.

As I'm pulling up onto the scene,

literally the smoke is just still wafting down the street.

Every hair on the back of your neck went up and it's like,

what is going on?

Carjacking, shootouts, IEDs.

It felt like we were under attack.

P. The captured suspect had been hit

by a car and shot.

He died from his injuries.

The team went to the hospital

for the body identification of the dead individual.

They brought what's called our quick print capture platform.

Essentially what that does is you can fingerprint somebody.

It immediately goes electronically into our fingerprint database

and attempts to identify a match.

I recall the information coming back that we had a name

and the name was,

Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

T-S-A-R-N-A-E-V.

Once you have a name,

you're going to search it through every one

of your intelligence databases.

One of the databases yields a hit.

Born 1986, originally a citizen of Kyrgyzstan.

Arrived in the USA 2003.

We interviewed him in 2011 about his radical Islamic sympathies,

but we found no evidence of terrorist activity.

He was somebody who had a prior history with the FBI.

He had been the subject of what we call a guardian lead,

and merely it's an assessment.

Our intelligence analyst ran Tamerlan Tsarnaev's information.

There was information about other family members,

- I've got it. Get it up here.

And they pulled up the DMV photo of Tamerlan's brother.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Born in 1993,

became a naturalized citizen of the USA in 2012.

Pull up our photos.

That picture was compared to the pictures we had of White Hat.

Stop.

And the facial recognition expert concluded

that this was likely the same person.

Based on our investigation, we have identified Black Hat

as Tamerlan Tsarnaev,

and we have likely identified White Hat as

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

We come upon the vehicle that White Hat had escaped in.

The door was open,

but we're not sure.

Is it booby-trapped? Did he leave something in there?

When dealing with the subject, anything could have been a bomb.

It's like, where is this person?

And at that point I realized, okay,

we need to come up with an action plan here.

We made the decision to lock down the 20 block area around the incident,

and then methodically search it until we got him.

So a decision was made to have people shelter in place.

They weren't to go to work, they were to stay in their residences,

lock the door and be vigilant of what was around them.

At that point in my mind, there was just no doubt

what we had here.

We wanted the streets and the airspace to ourselves.

It was game on.

I'm Michael Barr.

The quiet of the night was shattered on a street

in Watertown, Massachusetts,

One suspect dead, the other still at large,

and the subject of a massive manhunt,

It's possible that this suspect is not only heavily armed

but is himself a walking bomb.

Beth answered the phone in the middle of the night.

Hello?

It was a call from the police, a automated call.

Hello, this is Detective Connors

with the Watertown Police Department.

There is an active incident in Watertown right now.

Chief Deveau is advising all Watertown east end residents

to remain in their homes.

We were in lockdown.

We got up and looked out the front window

and the first thing that greeted us on the street

was a SWAT team walking up and down the street.

Oh, wow! Whoa!

Right here, in Watertown?

What are they doing? You know, Watertown? Come on!

House to house, shed to shed, basements.

We literally just fanned the streets with anything we had,

every agency just literally lining the streets.

We didn't let anyone travel anywhere. You couldn't come and go.

Breaking news related to the Boston Marathon bombing.

Police say that one of the two suspects

has been killed in a shootout with law enforcement,

the second suspect remains at large and is armed and dangerous.

They are warning the public to use...

I thought he would be happy to know what we had just seen on the news,

so I leaned over and I said, "John, do you want some good news?"

They got the bastard that put you in this bed.

This is a special report from ABC News.

Police in Boston are new reporting that one of the suspects

in the Boston Marathon bombing is at large and considered armed and dangerous.

As dawn broke on the morning of Friday April 19th,

Dzokhar Tsarnaev was still out there

and so it was still a very, very stressful period.

P. We didn't know what he was armed with.

They had clearly made more explosives after the bombing,

which led me to believe they had plans to hurt more people.

This was as dangerous as it gets.

The Governor listened to all of us, listened to what our concerns were,

and ultimately made the decision to shut down the whole city.

That was a big decision.

We did not wanna turn into a police state,

but we did want people to help us help them.

I'm Aaron Katerski.

Boston and surrounding communities are locked down.

Mass transit has stopped.

People have been warned to stay indoors while police hunt for a bomber.

Streets empty, businesses closed,

over a million people behind locked doors and on edge

as investigators follow every possible lead.

So you're in lockdown and you're pacing back and forth,

and you have a little stoop out in your back

that you wanna sneak out to, and that was as far as I'd go.

So I'm not gonna go out in the backyard with helicopters flying overhead.

I wouldn't think that would be a smart thing for me to do.

Do not answer your door, do not come out,

there's just no reason for it,

because they know there's somebody out there,

somebody who has a death wish.

That day, it was a ghost town.

Let me tell you, everyone cooperated, even the little coffee shops.

They weren't open, you couldn't get a cup of coffee

in the City of Boston.

People were anxious of trying to get the end of it.

At this moment, we had a name

and identity of our fugitive, a good photo.

Coming from there was, where were they living?

We were talking to family members, talking to neighbors,

looking through our databanks.

There were numerous leads that were coming in feverishly.

All right, he's a student at Dartmouth.

Okay, he is a student at UMass Dartmouth.

Hey, Rick.

There was some technical information

that indicated he may have been.

Somewhere in North Dartmouth.

Intelligence led us to an address in Carriage Street.

Maybe he's there.

The Director of the FBI said, "Just hit it. Let's just do this."

We brought the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team to participate in a search and arrest.

I went to our command post to direct that.

Everyone was there, every agency, whether it was federal, state, local.

We're all in on this one.

Are we gonna come up with him, or we're not gonna come up with him?

There was a tremendous sense of excitement and anticipation

as the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team entered the residence.

Team one, ready to make entry.

Everything came through on the radio.

We're not watching video footage of that.

- Open door. Open door. - Open door. Open door.

We're hearing radio communications from the SWAT team.

They're very military in the way that they operate,

so the communication is very terse and short.

FBI, don't move!

FBI! Small room.

Don't move.

- Room clear. - Room clear.

It was just tense.

There's no conversation, you didn't need to speak.

FBI, don't move! FBI! Small room.

- Small room. - Room clear.

Room clear.

FBI! Don't move! FBI!

Hands up! Hands up!

There were individuals inside this residence.

FBI! Don't move! FBI!

Hands up! Hands up!

You don't move.

And there was a period of about five or ten minutes

when they were identifying these individuals.

We have three subjects.

Checking IDs now.

FBI! Don't move!

FBI! Don't move!

We thought we might have Dzhokhar Tsarnaev located.

There's these long, pregnant pauses.

We're hanging on this.

Your adrenaline's pumping and your heart's beating.

You knew what we were all thinking, you know,

this has gotta be him.

We're clear here.

The final transmission is like, you know, "We're clear here."

He's not here.

P. There was a palpable sense

of disappointment in the room.

People felt crushed.

It was like, I can't believe we don't have him,

and it really was, you know, it was quite devastating to all of us.

It was like, wow, this is, we're coming up dry.

They are not certain where he is,

they are confident they're going to get him one way or the other very soon,

but as of this moment they really do not know where he is.

I was tired, and I lay down for a little while

on that sofa over there, and the President called

and he said to me, "You know, you can't keep

that shelter request in place for very much longer, Deval,"

and I said, "No, we'll have to take it down,

once we've finished the house to house,"

and he said, "Well, suppose you don't find him?"

and I said, "If we don't find him,

then I'll probably have to take the heat for asking people to stay in."

And not long thereafter, they finished the house to house

and it was time to make the call.

Developments in the course of the day,

the stay indoors request is lifted. The team...

We announced that the shelter in place request was withdrawn.

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

Basically, we were back where we were on Tuesday morning.

Every agency had people at this point

who were exhausted.

Everyone's just wiped out.

We're not giving up, but we need to scale back

and get some rest, some food, and then let's reset.

We don't have really any other options.

Emotions, the exhaustion were going through my mind.

Well, what else is there?

There weren't a lot more immediately viable options.

The lockdown was lifted, I believe, around six o'clock.

I wasn't in any hurry to go anywhere, except out to the boat.

That's what I wanted to do.

Now, I always think of that boat.

It's my passion.

So I went out to the garage, got the ladder,

and it's quiet.

It's quiet, 'cause nobody had... No cars, no nothing yet.

And I just put the ladder nice and quiet up against the boat.

I pulled the strap on the boat to put them back,

and it was a little loose.

Why did this main strap get loose?

Something's, something's not right, but, it could be a lot of things.

I just started looking in the boat.

I saw blood on the deck.

I'm thinking, what the heck is going on?

And somebody was lying in the boat.

I just looked and I looked a couple of times to...

Yeah, I'm seeing what I'm seeing, I'm... You know.

I'm outta here.

I'm outta here.

My car happened to be right there at that time.

All of a sudden, they came.

The only way I can explain it, it was like a NASCAR pit stop of police.

All directions down the street, vroom, vroom, vroom.

It was chaos.

- Some were yelling. - Get over here!

- Some were yelling. - Don't move!

I don't know what's going on, but one officer came running out.

Come over here!

She grabbed me.

Come over here!

And my friend George was there and he's, "Dave, what's going on?"

And I'm yelling at him, "He's in the boat, George.

"He's in the boat."

Move further up.

Move further up, please team, get on a little further, a little further.

My biggest fear at that time was trying to control the scene.

And I said, "We have the suspect covered.

I don't need any more help. Just bring me a tactical team."

We have the suspect cornered in the boat.

This fella could have suicide vest,

he could have bombs, he could have had anything.

I don't need regular officers moving in on someone as dangerous as this guy.

Phone rings, he's there, they've got him, 911 call.

And I just thought, "Oh, my God, let's do this."

Holy mackerel! Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had been located.

He was surrounded by law enforcement personnel.

We knew that he had more bombs, we knew he had the capacity

to kill innocent members of the American public,

or the law enforcement officers that were responding there.

There's definitely movement in the boat.

Guy three, I got a good copy.

Then all of a sudden we clearly could see his hand

poking at the wrap on the boat.

So we need any police officers

that are in the rear of that garage behind this house,

need to get out of the line of fire there.

Anybody that's on perimeter,

be aware of crossfire situations, all right?

We didn't know whether that was a gun

he was trying to break through.

We didn't know what he had.

They asked me if there was any gas on the boat

and I said, "Yeah, there's about 40 to 45 gallons of gas in the boat."

Then all of a sudden I heard the shots.

I didn't know if the suspect had fired first,

I didn't know what happened,

but all of a sudden the shots started ringing.

This is bad. There goes the boat.

Hold your fire!

And I clearly was screaming, "Hold your fire, hold your fire!"

Arlington, Arsenal, Waverley,

Main and Belmont Street, assume a perimeter.

The FBI's HRT team were able to establish a hard perimeter.

State Police had a helicopter with a great, you know,

bird's eye view of the scene.

Thank you, Charlie Two.

Tactical squads are in the area at this time.

Only tactical units only.

HRT is moving into position to execute an assault plan.

We had an infrared camera on a helicopter

that was hovering up above to watch for movement.

Unit three to CP, we have eyes on.

Negative movement, negative movement.

So from those infrared pictures,

we've got a good idea of what we were dealing with.

You know, it was a very open boat.

It didn't appear to have a cabin,

so the person would have been all exposed.

All units. If they get that top off that boat,

be aware of crossfire situations.

The decision was, we want him alive.

Let's try and negotiate, let's talk to him.

We want him alive, we can get him alive.

They were, you know, seeking our permission to use flash bangs.

Permission to use flash bangs.

It's a shrapnel-less grenade and it's really loud.

There might be a flash bang.

The FBI are shooting one off. All units, don't return fire.

No movement from the...

That was an effort to drive him out.

Zero three, another flash bang. Negative...

We got movement, he is moving.

We have movement in the boat. He just sat up.

Then I realized the media had tapped into the feed through the helicopter.

The media's tapped the feed.

Not only was I watching it on our monitor but, you know,

the world was watching this live.

We want him alive,

but if my tactical team had to take his life,

I could not have that play out live on TV.

What do you wanna do about it?

You know, I had the United States Attorney in there,

I had the Governor, senior members of Boston State.

That was a unique environment to be making these tactical decisions.

I said, "Okay, kill the feed."

Once we killed the feed, everything came through the radio.

We weren't quite getting a blow by blow from that point on.

Zero three, another flash bang.

Everybody's adrenaline was pumping,

you know, people were just very on edge.

It was just a, very tense, kind of heavily laden atmosphere.

CP, it looks like he's sitting up again.

There is movement.

He's on the fence side, center of the boat.

We have movement. An arm's moving.

That was the first thing I heard is, "We can see a hand."

We've got communication.

We just knew that we had the communication,

we had a hand, you know, it looks like he's gonna give up,

and then it was just tense, tense, tense, tense, waiting.

I need to know right away if there's any movement in the boat,

'cause the HRT, they're gonna cross the danger area.

They need to know that information ASAP.

Clear the air, let's clear the air.

I want everybody to stay off the air until this happens.

Suspect in custody.

We got him.

Whoo!

I heard, "Suspect in custody",

and I've never had such a better feeling in my life.

Suspects in custody but nobody inside the perimeter.

Put that out on channel one.

It just seemed like everything ran out of my body at that time.

It went kind of silent for a minute.

They had him. He was on the ground. You knew that.

He was out of the boat and they, they had him.

Unbelievable, unbelievable.

Words can't describe it. It was just, to this day, wow!

And it was just more than anyone can handle.

Ultimately I remember the next day,

you know, talking to my wife and I was upset.

Finally at that time to kind of like, wow, let it all go.

It's like, wow.

How did I get here?

How did I get here in this dark room?

I did not recognize anything at all,

so I had no idea where I was.

I was hooked up to some kind of machines,

I couldn't move.

I was scared to death.

Was I dead? I don't know.

I could see the people walk by and I had to get their attention somehow,

'cause I had to find out where I was.

And I started screaming and finally someone heard me

and then he began to tell me why I was there.

John had 11 surgeries in 28 days.

They wheeled him up to parallel bars

and it was really her only intent to get him to stand.

I took five steps that day.

I took those five steps

and I knew from then on.

There was nothing gonna stop me

from walking.

I feel guilty that, you know, I for one got so much out of that day.

I ended up with another family, I ended up with a beautiful girlfriend,

whereas so many people lost all that.

Running helped me get through these difficult days.

It helped me to deal with the emotional impact.

I think it's made me realize

how it's so important, you know, to keep going.

I think those five days

demonstrated to all of us that we are a community

and that there is, there is power in a crisis

in turning to each other rather than on each other.

Somebody struck at the heart of our great event.

They were striking at the heart of Boston

and you also knew that

they ain't gonna win.

Not here.

Captured. The hunt is over.

A sigh of relief as police apprehended

the second Boston Marathon bombing suspect, 19 year old...

He is alive, he is in custody.

Unbelievable, as one said who's been following this...

I don't know that I've ever seen anything like this...

Police and law enforcement just cheered like this one by one

as they drive through here with their lights flashing.

Police officers shaking hands with each other, smiling.

Clearly it's over and people here are very happy

that they will be able to go back to their lives.