Posted on 04/21/2013 7:51:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The alleged Boston Marathon bomber is awake and responding to questions in his hospital bed.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is responding sporadically in writing to questions from investigators regarding other cell members and other unexploded bombs, law enforcement sources told ABC News.
The 19-year-old shoved his pistol in his own mouth and pulled the trigger as SWAT officers and federal agents closed in on the boat where he was hiding on Friday night. However, instead of killing him, the bullet simply tore through his neck.
Authorities initially said they couldn't question him because of the throat wound. CNN reports earlier today that Tsarnaev was 'intubated and sedated' at a Boston hospital.
The Boston police commissioner said Tsarnaev is in 'critical but stable' condition on Sunday - which appears to be a downgrade from reports earlier this weekend that his condition was only 'serious.'
Boston Mayor Tom Menino had earlier feared that federal agents would never be able to interview Tsarnaev but it seems that investigators may already be making progress.
Police sources told MailOnline that investigators are looking into the possibility that Tsarnaev and his older brother Tamerlan had a suicide pact so that neither of them could be taken alive and put on trial. Authorities believe Dzhokhar likely killed him brother, who was handcuffed, when he ran over him....
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He shot himself in the head/neck-when? after he pulled himself up from being in the boat or after-was that before the police grabbed him. What a story of events to follow.
On our dime.
They should’ve just stuck a garden hose over the gunnel and let him flounder out.
A faux Indian Senator, a dunce for a mayor and a squishy governor. Make it in Massachusetts!
Nobody has mentioned those intimidating SS Caps all the Massachusetts cops wear.
Thank goodness there’s an ammo shortage or this could have really been bad.
The tube down his throat? I think that actually came out of his throat. It went up his rectum.
“Why does almost every article on the Boston Marathon bombings feature an inane quote by Boston mayor Tom Menino?”
Because there are no other kinds of Menino quotes except inane ones?
Charge him with having an unlicensed weapon. How DARE he not register that gun!!!
it is possible. Had a friend that shot himself in the jaw with a .40 cal and then walked into the kitchen and called the ambulance. Bullet bounced off his jaw...so bullets can do weird things...and so can people.
That's how my baby half sister wound up marrying a Moroccan muslim.
Nope. Not a chance.
"In war, the first casualty is the truth."
Should’ve asked me!
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