Boston Marathon bombing suspects spared carjacking victim because 'he wasn't American,' police report shows

Published April 22, 2013
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The two brothers suspected in the Boston Marathon bombing told the man they carjacked late Thursday that they only decided not to kill him because he “wasn’t an American,” according to a police report.

The victim, according to an excerpt from the Cambridge Police Department report filed by the driver and reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, told police he was driven to a Shell gas station on Memorial Drive in Watertown, Mass.

Once there, while still inside the vehicle, the brothers “declared to [the victim] that they were the Boston Marathon bombers and would not kill him because he wasn’t an American,” the report said.

The victim then saw an opportunity to flee and ran to a nearby gas station, where he asked the owner to call 911, the report continues.

About 40 minutes after they allegedly killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev crossed the Charles River into Boston and stole a Mercedes SUV at gunpoint and briefly held the unidentified driver hostage. The alleged carjacking occurred in Boston’s Brighton section, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was killed during a shootout with police in Watertown early Friday. Dzhokhar Tsarneav, 19, was arrested later than night following a 20-hour manhunt. The motive for the bombings remains unclear.

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