Survivors of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, allegedly carried out by Chechen-American brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, appeared in a Boston federal court Wednesday to deliver chilling testimony detailing the chaotic scene at the finish line.
When the two bombs detonated on April 15, 2013, shrapnel cut an artery in Sydney Corcoran’s leg, leaving blood gushing, while her mother’s legs were sliced off. On the first day of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s trial she described the moment to the courtroom: “I remember thinking, this is it, I’m going to die. I’m not going to make it.”
Read the rest of the survivor testimonies at the Boston Globe
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