Video Shows Carjacking Victim Escaping Boston Marathon Bombers
BOSTON (CBS) - In the newly-released surveillance video, you can see the horror written all over Dun Meng's face. He explained to jurors in the Boston Marathon bombing trial that he was terrified he was being followed, literally begging the gas station attendant to call 911 just seconds after he ran for his life.
Meng has spent part of that night - April 18, 2013- captive in his own Mercedes SUV, having been carjacked at gunpoint by the Tsarnaev brothers.
Meng testified that Tamerlan Tsarnaev had jumped into his vehicle, pointed a gun at his head, and told him to drive.
Meng said Dzhokhar followed in the brothers' Honda Civic; a short time later, the younger brother jumped in the carjacked vehicle's backseat, Tamerlan behind the wheel and Meng riding shotgun.
Meng told jurors that Tamerlan explained he was the Boston marathon bomber and had just killed officer Sean Collier earlier that night.
Meng says Dzhokhar took his ATM card and demanded his PIN code.
Bank of America surveillance video shows him taking $800 from this Watertown ATM.
He is seen later trying to take out another $800 but getting denied.
Tamerlan gets behind the wheel, driving to a Memorial Drive shell station. In more video never publicly released until trial, jurors today watched Dzhokhar go into the convenience store and calmly, slowly, deliberately shop for drinks and snacks.
That is when Meng says he counted to four, held his breath, and made what he called the scariest decision of his life. He bolted out of the car and sprinted to the Mobil station across the street, where he pleaded with the clerk to call 911.
Next, jurors watched Tamerlan run out of the SUV himself, heading to retrieve his slowly-shopping brother, who drops his items and dashes back out. Both hop into their stolen SUV and are last seen in that video speeding away.
We now know they were bound for Watertown, where a brutal firefight with police was about to begin.
