The owner of the car is still undecided about the experience of the robbery. Even when the suspect Djohar was seriously injured and under close surveillance, he was still worried about his safety and refused to disclose his identity. The owner recalled that at around 11 pm on the 18th, he had learned from the radio that an MIT school policeman had been shot and killed. At this time, a man approached the car he was parked on the side of the road, knocked on the glass of the front passenger seat, and took out a pistol and asked him, "I heard that there was an explosion in Boston? I did it." The
man got in the car. Later, he was forced to drive to another location to pick up the second person. The two then stuffed the self-made bombs and ammunition that the authorities believed were later used in the firefight with the police into the trunk of the car. The two men are brothers Tamerlan and Djohar.
One of the suspects sat in the driver's seat, asked the owner to sit in the passenger seat next to him, and drove all the way. On the way, the two suspects talked to each other in Russian, but they boasted in English how the bombing attack was concocted by the owner of the car, and at the same time asked the driver who he was. The driver replied that he was a Chinese, and asked with trepidation whether the two brothers would harm him. "New York Daily News" reported that the two told the car owner that they would not take him anyway because he was "not an American."
However, even after getting a negative answer, the car owner still firmly believes that he must die. The Sanayev brothers then asked him for cash. He handed over all the 45 dollars he had, but the suspect was still unsatisfied and forced him to hand over his bank card and password. Dzhokhar used the card at an ATM. Withdraw 800 dollars in cash.
However, shortly after being on the road again, the car showed that it was almost out of gasoline, so the three of them drove into a gas station. The smart car owner seized this opportunity, and while the two carjackers were paying at the gas station and the other was filling up the gas, they jumped out of the car and fled across the street. The man who was cheering tried to stop him, but "he ran away quickly." When he fled to the gas station opposite, he asked the clerk to call the police immediately.
The clerk recalled in an interview afterwards that the extremely panicked robbed driver ran into the store and said to him, "Someone wants to kill me, they have guns and bombs!" Ahmed described that the driver was so scared that he could even stand still. Unsteady, he collapsed to the ground. And he himself was too scared to die, worried that the murderer would chase all the way, and his own life would be hard to save.
The owner of the car who was lucky enough to survive the catastrophe became an important witness in the case. Because his English ability is very limited, the authorities asked him to try his best to recall the words and phrases in the conversation between the two suspects during the questioning that night. The driver said that the two brothers spoke in Russian throughout the whole process, but he could hear only one word, that is, "Manhattan."
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