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Police Chief Describes "DRAMATIC FIREFIGHT" With Boston Marathon Suspects
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The seemingly quiet overnight shift suddenly turned into a warzone… Police officers were attacked with guns and bombs and it happened on a quiet backstreet in my community.”
That’s how Watertown Chief of Police Edward Deveau described the early hours of April 19, four days after three people were killed in a dual bombing at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. A few hours before, the FBI had released images of two men they suspected were behind the bombing, later identified as brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Authorities say after their photos were splashed across news outlets worldwide, the Tsarnaevs panicked. The brothers had already allegedly murdered MIT police officer Sean Collier, but now they hijacked a car, keeping the driver hostage for a time and made their way to Watertown, a suburb to Boston’s west.
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Watertown Sgt. Jeffrey Pugliese said he first realized there was trouble when he heard over the radio that his fellow officers were on the trail of a carjacking. A few minutes later, he learned from a radio call that the first shots had been fired at officers pursuing the stolen car.
Deveau said that another one of his officers, Joseph Reynolds, was the first to confront the carjackers. No one in the Watertown police department – all 65 officers total -- knew the call they were answering was linked to the Boston bombing.
Reynolds, Deveau said, “had no i
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