Boston Bombing Penalty Phase Live Blog
A Boston jury has found Dzhkohar Tsarnaev guilty on all 30 counts related to the deadly 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, meaning Tsarnaev could face the death penalty. Follow ABC News station WCVB's live blog for the latest news.
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Earlier this morning, FBI Special Agent Sarah DeLair opened evidence cans containing a shredded black backpack, twisted remnants of a pressure cooker and other items collected outside the Forum restaurant.
"It's pieces of metal," she told the jury as she reviewed the contents of one can. "You have BBs encased in some kind of paper. You have shards of metal. A zipper. Pieces of black material. Small nails. And some duct tape. And lots of BBs at the bottom."
Courtroom sketch by Jane Flavell Collins. -
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In the indictment filed 6-27-13, prosecutors outlined the murder of MIT Police Officer Sean Collier this way:
"On April 18, 2013, at approximately 10:00 p.m., Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev armed themselves with five IEDs, a Ruger P95 9mm semiautomatic handgun, ammunition for the Ruger, a machete, and a hunting knife, and drove in their Honda Civic to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ("MIT") in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
"On April 18, 2013, at approximately 11:00 p.m., in the vicinity of 32 Vassar Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev murdered Sean Collier, an MIT police officer, by shooting him in the head at close range with a Ruger P95 9mm semiautomatic handgun, and attempted to steal his service weapon."
The photo above shows the scene at MIT after the shooting. -
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henniger walked over. i looked inside and that's when i discovered Officer Collier had been shot. i observed a wound to the head, temple, neck, right hand. there was blood all over the car. he was leaning to the right. I backed away and did a security check to make sure the area was safe and called for help. officers and medical
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Sgt. Henniger was the first officer to respond to the scene. He says it appeared the same as when he had seen Officer Collier parked there earlier.
"Lights on, vehicle running. The only exception was the door --- the driver's side door was open," he testifies. "When I arrived at the cruiser, I looked inside and that's when I discovered Officer Collier had been shot."
Sgt. Henniger says there was blood everywhere. "All over the car, his body," he tells jurors. -
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Again, prosecutors are using different maps to describe Officer Collier's location to the jury.
However the one above is from the MIT website and appears to use the same numbers to identify buildings.
The Koch Institute is #76. There's a surveillance camera installed on the roof of #54. It's pointing toward North Court.
Surveillance video shows Collier's police cruiser parked to the left of the Koch Institute. -
10:24 pm they reach the back of the cruiser. brake lights of the car go on. off. then on again. circle shows two men leaving the way they came. at 10:26 pm I did not see any sparks of gun fire. I did see a man bike by the scene. he will testify later.
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