Boston boat-owner's stepson : He found second bombing suspect crumpled and bloody in boat then calmly called 911
A brave Boston man who discovered 19-year-old marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev cowering, bloodied, in his beloved boat 'didn't try to be a hero,' his stepson revealed today.
David Henneberry had stepped outside with his wife for some fresh air at around 5:45 p.m. yesterday afternoon when he noticed that a tarp had lifted off his boat and a strap had been cut. He climbed in for a closer look, which is when he saw a pool of blood and what he thought was a crumpled body.
'He saw something hunched down toward the forward of the boat, and his mind instantly did the right thing,' Robert Duffy said. 'He didn't try to be a hero, he didn't yell.'
Instead, he dropped off his stepladder, ran inside his house and called 911, Duffy told the Today show.
Having followed the rolling news coverage of the manhunt, and with SWAT teams already in his street, Henneberry knew almost instantly what, or who, he had uncovered in the boat - and the danger that entailed, Duffy said.
'He probably just peeked his head up into his boat, his beloved prize, and saw the pool of blood and with what has taken place all day via the media 24 hours of non-stop it was just probably was one, two, three - he knew exactly what was going on,' Duffy told Fox News.
'He dropped out of the boat and his first instinct was 911. Knowing gunshots had been fired, he probably just dropped off the ladder and walked away for 911.'
Duffy said he was terrified when he first saw SWAT teams had surrounded his parents' house on the news.
'Horror just swept through me. I broke down crying,' he said. 'We tried to call. The phone was busy for almost 30 straight minutes. We tried cell phones, neither one of David or my mother were picking the phone up. My sister was static. It was absolute horror because we were seeing the bullets you know gunfire erupts on Franklin St as everything was unfurling.'
He said he was about to go check on the elderly couple when his sister called to tell him they were both safe and had been evacuated.
According to CBS, the suspect, who was forced out of the boat by 'flash-bangs,' had been shot in the neck and in the leg.
Based on the amount of blood Henneberry saw in the boat, investigators believe Dzhokhar was probably wounded as long as 20 hours before he was discovered, in the Thursday morning battle that left the other bombing suspect, his 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan, dead.
The nightmarish 24 hours came to an end in Boston at around 8:45 p.m. yesterday as the 19-year-old suspect Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev was taken into custody alive but injured after a gun battle with police and federal agents.
The final chapter in the drama began shortly after 5pm on Friday, when Boston police told the nation that the second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings was still on the loose. Authorities had leads, but they didn't know where he was.
Three hours and 45 minutes later, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev was found and captured alive after Henneberry went outside for a breath of fresh air and to check on his boat.
About 5.45pm, Henneberry stepped outside his house on Franklin Street in Watertown, less than three quarters of a mile from the center of police search in the town.
Neighbor George Pizzuto told ABC News that Mr Henneberry found the canvass tarp that covered his 25-foot boat appeared to be askew.
'He looked and noticed something was off about his boat, so he got his ladder, and he put his ladder up on the side of the boat and climbed up, and then he saw blood on it,' Mr Pizzuto said.
Mr Henneberry fled to the home of his neighbor, Mr Pizzuto with his ill wife, while officers fired on his beloved boat.
'That boat's his baby. He takes care of it like you wouldn't believe. And they told him it's all shot up,' Mr Pizzuto said. 'He's going to be heartbroken.'
'He got out of the boat fast and called police,' he said.
By 6 pm cavalcades of police began arriving at Mr Henneberry's house.
Authorities re-issued their orders for residents to stay inside as dozens of heavily-armed Boston police and federal agents surrounded the house.
Neighbors reported hearing dozens of rounds of automatic weapons fire as police closed on the house.
Officers said Tsarnaev fired at them and that they returned fire.
Tsarnaev, a 19-year-old American citizen from Chechnya, was wounded by police at some point during a gun battle on Thursday night, authorities say.
Officers then backed off, hoping to take the suspect alive. Orders went out on Boston police radio that Tsarnaev was to be taken alive and that officers should not fire first and not return fire.
David Henneberry had stepped outside with his wife for some fresh air at around 5:45 p.m. yesterday afternoon when he noticed that a tarp had lifted off his boat and a strap had been cut. He climbed in for a closer look, which is when he saw a pool of blood and what he thought was a crumpled body.
'He saw something hunched down toward the forward of the boat, and his mind instantly did the right thing,' Robert Duffy said. 'He didn't try to be a hero, he didn't yell.'
Instead, he dropped off his stepladder, ran inside his house and called 911, Duffy told the Today show.
Having followed the rolling news coverage of the manhunt, and with SWAT teams already in his street, Henneberry knew almost instantly what, or who, he had uncovered in the boat - and the danger that entailed, Duffy said.
'He probably just peeked his head up into his boat, his beloved prize, and saw the pool of blood and with what has taken place all day via the media 24 hours of non-stop it was just probably was one, two, three - he knew exactly what was going on,' Duffy told Fox News.
'He dropped out of the boat and his first instinct was 911. Knowing gunshots had been fired, he probably just dropped off the ladder and walked away for 911.'
Duffy said he was terrified when he first saw SWAT teams had surrounded his parents' house on the news.
'Horror just swept through me. I broke down crying,' he said. 'We tried to call. The phone was busy for almost 30 straight minutes. We tried cell phones, neither one of David or my mother were picking the phone up. My sister was static. It was absolute horror because we were seeing the bullets you know gunfire erupts on Franklin St as everything was unfurling.'
He said he was about to go check on the elderly couple when his sister called to tell him they were both safe and had been evacuated.
According to CBS, the suspect, who was forced out of the boat by 'flash-bangs,' had been shot in the neck and in the leg.
Based on the amount of blood Henneberry saw in the boat, investigators believe Dzhokhar was probably wounded as long as 20 hours before he was discovered, in the Thursday morning battle that left the other bombing suspect, his 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan, dead.
The nightmarish 24 hours came to an end in Boston at around 8:45 p.m. yesterday as the 19-year-old suspect Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev was taken into custody alive but injured after a gun battle with police and federal agents.
The final chapter in the drama began shortly after 5pm on Friday, when Boston police told the nation that the second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings was still on the loose. Authorities had leads, but they didn't know where he was.
Three hours and 45 minutes later, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev was found and captured alive after Henneberry went outside for a breath of fresh air and to check on his boat.
About 5.45pm, Henneberry stepped outside his house on Franklin Street in Watertown, less than three quarters of a mile from the center of police search in the town.
Neighbor George Pizzuto told ABC News that Mr Henneberry found the canvass tarp that covered his 25-foot boat appeared to be askew.
'He looked and noticed something was off about his boat, so he got his ladder, and he put his ladder up on the side of the boat and climbed up, and then he saw blood on it,' Mr Pizzuto said.
Mr Henneberry fled to the home of his neighbor, Mr Pizzuto with his ill wife, while officers fired on his beloved boat.
'That boat's his baby. He takes care of it like you wouldn't believe. And they told him it's all shot up,' Mr Pizzuto said. 'He's going to be heartbroken.'
'He got out of the boat fast and called police,' he said.
By 6 pm cavalcades of police began arriving at Mr Henneberry's house.
Authorities re-issued their orders for residents to stay inside as dozens of heavily-armed Boston police and federal agents surrounded the house.
Neighbors reported hearing dozens of rounds of automatic weapons fire as police closed on the house.
Officers said Tsarnaev fired at them and that they returned fire.
Tsarnaev, a 19-year-old American citizen from Chechnya, was wounded by police at some point during a gun battle on Thursday night, authorities say.
Officers then backed off, hoping to take the suspect alive. Orders went out on Boston police radio that Tsarnaev was to be taken alive and that officers should not fire first and not return fire.
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