Carjack Victim's Harrowing Night With Boston Jihadis
From Boston.com, Eric Moskowitz writes about the carjacking of the 26-year-old entrepreneur from China:
Danny described 90 harrowing minutes, first with the younger brother following in a second car, then with both brothers in the Mercedes, where they openly discussed driving to New York, though Danny could not make out if they were planning another attack. Throughout the ordeal, he did as they asked while silently analyzing every threatened command, every overheard snatch of dialogue for clues about where and when they might kill him."Death is so close to me," Danny recalled thinking. His life had until that moment seemed ascendant, from a province in central China to graduate school at Northeastern University to a Kendall Square start-up.
"I don't want to die," he thought. "I have a lot of dreams that haven't come true yet."
After a zigzagging trek through Brighton, Watertown, and back to Cambridge, Danny would seize his chance for escape at the Shell Station on Memorial Drive, his break turning on two words -- "cash only" -- that had rarely seemed so welcome.
When the younger brother, Dzhokhar, was forced to go inside the Shell Food Mart to pay, older brother Tamerlan put his gun in the door pocket to fiddle with a navigation device -- letting his guard down briefly after a night on the run. Danny then did what he had been rehearsing in his head. In a flash, he unbuckled his seat belt, opened the door, stepped through, slammed it behind, and sprinted off at an angle that would be a hard shot for any marksman.
"F---!" he heard Tamerlan say, feeling the rush of a near-miss grab at his back, but the man did not follow. Danny reached the haven of a Mobil station across the street, seeking cover in the supply room, shouting for the clerk to call 911.
His quick-thinking escape, authorities say, allowed police to swiftly track down the Mercedes, abating a possible attack by the brothers on New York City and precipitating a wild shootout in Watertown that would seriously wound one officer, kill Tamerlan, and leave a severely injured Dzhokhar hiding in the neighborhood. He was caught the following night, ending a harrowing week across Greater Boston.
via KateC
So let's see.
The Lord & Taylor (privately owned) surveillance camera had the best fixed pictures of these two scumbags.
Other private citizens rushed in, not away, to help the victims. The private citizens also offer up the images and videos to LEOs to allow them the best chance to find the scumbags.
Once the scumbags were identified, they car jacked this guy, who had the guts to get away and alert authorities.
LEOs had a large firefight with the scumbags, but could on kill one of them. Then the LEOs have a large "voluntary" lock down of a major metropolitan area.
The surviving scumbag was in a boat a block and a half outside of the hard target search area. And the searches of homes was in violation of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th amendments.
The hiding place of scumbag #2 was identified by a private citizen to LEOs.
And this all happened in a state with stiff gun control laws.
Now the fallout is that several senators want to deform the constitution to prosecute this scumbag as an enemy combatant, which will affect all of us in the long term.
Boston and other major metropolitan are wanting to implement a "no sparrow may fall" surveillance systems. That includes NYC upgrading theirs because Times Square is a probable target. (Note the propane bomber was caught because of privately owned surveillance cameras as well.)
The left are wanting to further implement further gun control because these criminal scumbags were illegally in possession of firearms.
Bloomberg Says Interpretation of Constitution Has to Change:
I am not ready to shred the Constitution because a couple of scumbags figure out how to mix peroxide with a pressure cooker and make things go boom.
Jim P. at April 27, 2013 5:03 AM
Here's a link to a great interview with Globe writer Eric Moskowitz on the local Fox station in MA.
http://www.myfoxboston.com/video?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=8814506
JFP at April 27, 2013 9:06 AM
What an absolutely frightful ordeal. Let's hope that Danny's Chinese name stays unknown if that is what he wishes. And may he have a long and prosperous life here in the US.
Charles at April 27, 2013 12:21 PM
Inspired to write my Boston Bombing: The AAR post finally.
Jim P. at April 27, 2013 11:39 PM
Not to discount in any way the courage and quick thinking of him, but will he scrape the silly "Coexist" bumper sticker off his car now?
DrCos at April 28, 2013 5:37 AM
Does this look like a Mercedes?
Jim P. at April 28, 2013 9:13 AM
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