According to the man who was carjacked by the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev planned to travel to New York City after leaving Massachusetts. Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis said that the Tsarnaev brothers' arsenal of weapons was so massive that they could've continued their devastating warpath.
Several bombs and over 250 rounds of ammunition were found at the scene after Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a shootout with police Friday morning. Davis called the collection of weapons "as dangerous as it gets in urban policing," adding that authorities "[had] reason to believe, based upon the evidence that was found at that scene — the explosions, the explosive ordnance that was unexploded and the firepower that they had — that they were going to attack other individuals."
The owner of the Mercedes SUV says the duo spared him because he "wasn't American." After escaping from the vehicle at a gas station in Watertown, he ran to another gas station and told an employee to call 911. According to Boston mayor Thomas Menino, the elder Tsarnaev brother "brainwashed" his younger sibling into joining the deadly mission.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev remains in serious condition after being apprehended by authorities Friday evening.
[via Gothamist]
