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A lone small-town police officer confronted the two Boston Marathon suspects on a dark street after they got out of their cars and started shooting at him, the Watertown, Mass., police chief said Saturday.
In the ensuing firefight, the suspects hurled a pressure-cooker bomb similar to the two that went off near the marathon finish line, said Chief Edward Deveau. They also tossed four homemade grenade-like devices, Deveau said, with two of them exploding.
The two men were in separate cars when they were confronted, he said apparently one of their own and another that they had carjacked.
Deveau said police tracked one of the cars because the carjack victims phone was still inside. The lone officer, whom he identified as Joe Reynolds, was told not to engage the suspects, but the suspects fired on him from separate locations, Deveau said.
Under fire, the officer put his cruiser in reverse to back away while other officers arrived, he said. Six Watertown police officers were involved in the fight, plus a transit officer who was shot in the groin and bled heavily, he said.
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Lone officer confronted marathon bombing suspects in firefight, chief says (Original Post)
malaise
Apr 2013
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uppityperson
(115,677 posts)1. Link? Thanks
malaise
(268,957 posts)2. Oops
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JackN415
(924 posts)3. Very brave of him