Boston Manhunt: How Does This End?

[AtomicDog]

@Meatros

I think he’s going to be caught hiding in someone’s back yard.

You called it.

[robert_columbia]

They got him.

http://www.wtop.com/1326/3291763/Mass-transit-resumes-in-Boston

[Meatros]

@AtomicDog

You called it.

I was going to say someone’s shed in a back yard (there was a COPs episode where a guy hid under a persons kiddie pool that briefly fluttered through my mind), but I thought that he’d actually be seen by the homeowner and that the police would be able to nab him without a gun fight.

[elfkin477]

Do we now bet on whether or not he kills himself in a cell?

[Martini_Enfield]

I am surprised they were still in the Boston area, if it’s the same guys wanted in connection with the bombing. By my reckoning, they had two days where no-one was really certain who the suspects were or what they looked like - more than enough time to make a run for Canada or South America.

[EverwonderWhy]

@elfkin477

Do we now bet on whether or not he kills himself in a cell?

I am surprised he surrendered, though I am glad he did so he can shed some light on his motivations. He had ample time to off himself today (unless in the unlikely event he didn’t have a weapon) and his prosecution is going to be brutle. It will be significantly more difficult to kill himself in custody.

[AtomicDog]

@Martini_Enfield

I am surprised they were still in the Boston area, if it’s the same guys wanted in connection with the bombing. By my reckoning, they had two days where no-one was really certain who the suspects were or what they looked like - more than enough time to make a run for Canada or South America.

I think that they had no intention of running. They had plenty of bombs, and they intended to use them.

[Leaper]

@EverwonderWhy

I am surprised he surrendered, though I am glad he did so he can shed some light on his motivations. He had ample time to off himself today (unless in the unlikely event he didn’t have a weapon) and his prosecution is going to be brutle. It will be significantly more difficult to kill himself in custody.

I wonder if this speaks to his level of commitment to whatever cause he follows. Might be an indication of what his defense attorneys will try, whether at trial or in plea bargaining.

[Gorsnak]

I don’t know that he surrendered so much as succumbed to his injuries. Hard to resist being taken into custody if you’re unconscious.

[DCnDC]

@AtomicDog

I think that they had no intention of running. They had plenty of bombs, and they intended to use them.

That seems to be what some are thinking.

from this article:

@Washington Post

Just after 10:30 p.m. Thursday, the pair walked up to a parked police car at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Sean Collier, a 26-year-old campus officer, was nearing the end of his 3-to-11 p.m. shift.

A security camera would later show two men approaching the car and speaking to the officer. Abruptly, one of the men was seen pulling a gun and shooting Collier multiple times, including once in the head. Some officers concluded that the shooting was an effort to provoke a larger confrontation with police.

“They were looking to start something,” one official said.

Guess they wanted to martyr themselves in a blaze of glory. I suppose Tamerlan got what he wanted (spoilered for mildly graphic description):[spoiler]

@that same article

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, now out of his car, attempted to lob a makeshift bomb at police, but the device exploded in his hand. While Tamerlan Tsarnaev was firing a pistol with the other hand, police tackled and tried to subdue the 200-pound amateur boxer.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, apparently intending to help his brother, tried to ram the officers with the Mercedes. Instead, the officers lunged out of the vehicle’s path and he ran over his brother and dragged him along the street before speeding off with police in pursuit.

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