- Handguns, rifle and at least six bombs were at shootout scene, police chief says
- A single officer first encountered the brothers, who were in two cars, the chief says
- They jumped out immediately and started shooting, then threw a bomb, he says
- The device turned out to be a pressure cooker bomb, the chief says
(CNN) -- Handguns, a rifle and at least six bombs -- three of which exploded -- were found
at the scene early Friday after officers first confronted the two Boston Marathon bombing suspects in the darkness of a residential street, the Watertown, Massachusetts, police chief said Saturday in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer.
A single officer was the first to encounter the two cars that Tamerlan and Dzhokar Tsarnaev were driving, just before 1 a.m. Friday, Chief Edward Deveau said. One of the vehicles was a Mercedes sport utility vehicle the brothers carjacked earlier that night, he said.
Before the officer could get backup, the two cars stopped, and the brothers got out.
"They jump out of the car and unload on our police officer," Deveau said "They both came out shooting -- shooting guns, handguns. He's under direct fire, very close by. He has to jam it in reverse and try to get himself a little distance."
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The long night of terror comes to an end
The FBI released photos and video of two men identified as Suspect 1 and Suspect 2 in the deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon. They have been identified as Dzhokar Tsarnaev, 19, and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26.
Authorities say Dzhokar Tsarnaev, identified as Suspect 2, was captured in a Boston suburb on Friday, April 19, after a manhunt that virtually shut down the city.
Police say the dead suspect is the man the FBI identified as Suspect 1. Sources tell CNN he has been identified as Tamerlan Tsarnaev. He was killed during a shootout with police in Watertown, Massachusetts, early April 19. Here, Tamerlan is at the 2010 New England Golden Gloves.
A man identified as Suspect 2 appeared in this photograph by bystander David Green, who took the photo after completing the Boston Marathon. Green submitted the photo to the FBI, he told Piers Morgan in an interview.
The man identified as Suspect 2 appears in a tighter crop of David Green's photo.
The FBI on Thursday, April 18, released photos and video of two men it called suspects in the deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon and pleaded for public help in identifying them. This is Suspect 1, Tamerlan. He and his brother were photographed walking together near the finish line of the marathon before the explosions.
Police are searching for Suspect 2. Several sources tell CNN this suspect at large has been idenified as Dzhokar Tsarnaev, 19.
The FBI tweeted this photo early Friday morning and urged Watertown residents to stay indoors as they searched for the second suspect.
The FBI on Thursday, April 18, released photos and video of two men it called suspects in the deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon and pleaded for public help in identifying them. The two men were photographed walking together near the finish line of the marathon before the explosions that killed three people and wounded about 180.
The FBI on Thursday, April 18, released photos and video of two men it called suspects in the deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon and pleaded for public help in identifying them. The two men were photographed walking together near the finish line of the marathon before the explosions that killed three people and wounded about 180.
The FBI on Thursday, April 18, released photos and video of two men it called suspects in the deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon and pleaded for public help in identifying them. The two men were photographed walking together near the finish line of the marathon before the explosions that killed three people and wounded about 180.
The FBI on Thursday, April 18, released photos and video of two men it called suspects in the deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon and pleaded for public help in identifying them. The two men were photographed walking together near the finish line of the marathon before the explosions that killed three people and wounded about 180.
The FBI on Thursday, April 18, released photos and video of two men it called suspects in the deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon and pleaded for public help in identifying them. The two men were photographed walking together near the finish line of the marathon before the explosions that killed three people and wounded about 180.
The FBI on Thursday, April 18, released photos and video of two men it called suspects in the deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon and pleaded for public help in identifying them. The two men were photographed walking together near the finish line of the marathon before the explosions that killed three people and wounded about 180.
The FBI on Thursday, April 18, released photos and video of two men it called suspects in the deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon and pleaded for public help in identifying them. The two men were photographed walking together near the finish line of the marathon before the explosions that killed three people and wounded about 180.
The FBI on Thursday, April 18, released photos and video of two men it called suspects in the deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon and pleaded for public help in identifying them. The two men were photographed walking together near the finish line of the marathon before the explosions that killed three people and wounded about 180.
The FBI on Thursday, April 18, released photos and video of two men it called suspects in the deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon and pleaded for public help in identifying them. The two men were photographed walking together near the finish line of the marathon before the explosions that killed three people and wounded about 180.
The FBI on Thursday, April 18, released photos and video of two men it called suspects in the deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon and pleaded for public help in identifying them. The two men were photographed walking together near the finish line of the marathon before the explosions that killed three people and wounded about 180.
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An officer carries a child away from an area where a suspect was hiding on Franklin Street on Friday, April 19, in Watertown, Massachusetts. After a car chase and shootout with police, one suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was shot and killed by police early Friday, and his brother and second suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was taken into custody Friday night. The two men are suspects in the bombings at the Boston Marathon on April 15, that killed three people and wounded at least 170.
Residents flee from an area where a suspect was hiding on Franklin Street on April 19.
Officers approach an area where a suspect was hiding on April 19.
People react while watching police respond to reported gunfire on April 19.
An ambulance carries Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, from the scene after he was apprehended in Watertown, Massachusetts, on April 19.
An image posted to the social sharing website Reddit purports to show suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev being detained by law enforcement officers.
Dzhokar Tsarnaev gets out of the boat he was hiding in outside of a home in Watertown, as seen in a surveillance video still.
Police SWAT teams leave the area after apprehending the suspect in a yard where he was hiding in a dry-docked boat on April 19.
Members of a police SWAT team run to the scene where the suspect was hiding on April 19.
Police converge near the scene where the bombing suspect was hiding.
SWAT team members run toward a police assault on a house as gunfire erupts on April 19.
Family members react after police SWAT teams assaulted a house on their street on April 19.
Police officers search house to house for the second suspect in a neighborhood of Watertown, Massachusetts, on Friday.
Members of a family who fled the scene near where the suspect was hiding talk with the authorities on Friday.
Law enforcement officials evacuate people away from the area where the suspect was hiding.
Police move in to the area where the suspect was hiding on Friday in Watertown, Massachusetts.
SWAT team members move down residential streets as they perform door-to-door searches in Watertown, Massachusetts, on April 19.
SWAT team members talk with Watertown, Massachusetts, residents while conducting door-to-door searches on April 19.
A Watertown police vehicle with bullet holes in its body and a shattered windshield is towed out of the search area on April 19 in Watertown, Massachusetts.
SWAT teams prepare to enter a home as they continue the door-to-door search.
SWAT teams continue the ongoing manhunt in Watertown, Massachusetts.
A man watches from the window of a home as a SWAT team member keeps watch on Friday, in Watertown, Massachusetts.
Flags decorate the fence along the length of Dorchester Avenue that runs over the sparsely traveled expressway in South Boston as a memorial to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings.
Beacon Street across from the Boston Common was nearly vacant of vehicle traffic at 10:45 a.m. as the manhunt for the second suspect took place.
An entrance into Fenway Park is closed after the April 19 game between the Kansas City Royals and Boston Red Sox was posptoned.
Police to continue to the door-to-door search on Francis Street in Watertown, Massachusetts, on Friday.
Max Jaffe, a Tufts University student, who lives across the street from slain MIT police officer Sean Collier, looks on from his home on Friday.
SWAT team members line a residential street in Watertown, Massachusetts, as the manhunt continues on Friday.
U.S. President Barack Obama meets with members of his national security team in the Situation Room of the White House on April 19 to discuss developments in the Boston bombings investigation.
A Police SWAT team prepares to make a house-to-house search as residents leave their homes in Watertown, Massachusetts, on April 19.
Law enforcement officers place themselves in an overhead position on Arsenal Street as the search continues on April 19.
Law enforcement officers react to what was initially thought to be a threatening suspect on Arsenal Street on April 19.
Armed Boston Maritime Safety Security team members patrol the Boston Harbor on April 19.
A SWAT team member talks with a resident on April 19 during a house-to-house search.
Anzor Tsarnayev, father of the two suspects, who is currently living in Russia, maintains that his sons are innocent. "Someone framed them," he told the Russian national TV network Zvezda in Dagestan. "I don't know who exactly did it. But someone did. And being cowards, they shot the boy dead. There are cops like this."
The Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Police Department SWAT team participates in the search of houses in Watertown, Massachusetts, on April 19.
A police SWAT team searches houses on April 19 for the second suspect.
SWAT team members continue to search neighborhoods in Watertown on April 19.
SWAT teams searches homes along Winsor Avenue in Watertown on April 19.
A U.S. military helicopter lands behind Watertown Mall as law enforcement agencies continue to search for the 19-year-old bombing suspect on Friday.
A Massachusetts state trooper watches other troopers line up at Watertown Mall as the manhunt for the second suspect continues in Watertown on Friday.
Katia Costa looks out her window as police continue the manhunt on Nichols Avenue in Watertown on Friday.
Police continue the ongoing manhunt for the second suspect on Williow Avenue in Watertown on Friday.
Law enforcement officers search a Watertown neighborhood on Friday.
Watertown residents watch members of law enforcement agencies search their neighborhood for the remaining suspect on Friday.
Ruslan Tsarni, uncle of the Boston terror suspects, told CNN affiliate WBZ that Tamerlan "got what he deserved" in an interview outside his home in Montgomery Village, Maryland, on Friday.
Officers from several agencies search an apartment complex in Watertown on Friday.
Cambridge, Massachusetts, residents look out as law enforcement searches the area on Friday.
Law enforcement officers search an apartment complex as residents are evacuated in Watertown on Friday.
Officers coordinate a search of an apartment complex in Watertown on Friday.
SWAT teams move into position at the intersection of Nichols and Melendy avenues in Watertown, Massachusetts, on Friday.
SWAT teams gather at the intersection of Nichols and Melendy avenues in Watertown while searching for the remaining suspect on Friday.
Residents are evacuated as members of the FBI, state police, Boston Police, Cambridge Police and other law enforcement agencies survey the perimeter near the home of the man identified as Suspect 2 on Norfolk Street on Friday, April 19 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
A state police officer stands ready as the search for the second suspect takes place on Mount Auburn Street near Watertown Square in Watertown, Massachusetts, on Friday.
SWAT officers search an apartment for the remaining suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings in Watertown on Friday, April 19. A resident reported seeing drops of blood in the apartment building.
A member of the SWAT team trains a gun on an apartment building on Friday during the search for the second suspect.
A woman is questioned by Cambridge police and other law enforcement agencies Friday near the home of the second suspect in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus police officer was shot and killed late Thursday night at the school's campus in Cambridge. A short time later, police reported exchanging gunfire with alleged carjackers in nearby Watertown.
Members of the FBI, state police, Boston Police, Cambridge police and other law enforcement agencies put up tape in front of a woman being questioned near the home of the second suspect in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Friday.
A resident watches as police search an apartment complex in Watertown on Friday.
A Massachusetts State Police officer checks the bag of a cyclist amid heightened security on Friday in Watertown.
A man looks out as a SWAT team member knocks on his neighbors' door in Watertown, Massachusetts, on Friday.
Police search for the second suspect at an apartment building where a resident reported finding drops of blood on Friday in Watertown, Massachusetts.
SWAT team members search in Watertown on Friday for the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect.
SWAT team members search for the suspect at a residential building on Friday in Watertown.
Onlookers take pictures while SWAT team members look around on Friday.
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, left, speaks to the media at a shopping mall on the perimeter of a locked-down area during the search on Friday.
SWAT officers check a door with guns ready on Friday.
An FBI SWAT team surrounds a home while following a tracking dog in Watertown on Friday.
Metro SWAT members hang off the back of a truck during the search on Friday.
Military police arrive in armored vehicles at the parking lot of the Arsenal Mall on Friday in Watertown.
Two police officers stand guard at the perimeter of a locked-down area as the search continues on Friday.
Police officers wait in front of the shopping mall on Friday.
Officers patrol Watertown on Friday.
The aftermath of the shootout that police said involved the two suspects in Watertown early Friday.
Police with guns drawn search for a suspect on Friday in Watertown, Massachusetts.
A police officer runs with his gun drawn on Friday.
Police descend on School and Walnut streets on Friday.
Boston Police gather in the parking lot in front of a Best Buy store near the Watertown Mall on Friday.
Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis speaks during a media briefing in the parking lot of the Watertown Mall on Friday.
Boston police gather in front of a Best Buy on Friday.
Police stop cars at School and Walnut streets on Friday.
A police officer and his dog patrol School and Walnut streets on Friday.
A Massachusetts state trooper checks a building along Mount Auburn Street as police search neighborhoods in Watertown.
Police search neighborhoods yard by yard on Friday.
Police with guns drawn search for a suspect on Friday.
Police convene on School and Walnut streets on Friday.
School and Walnut streets had a heavy police presence overnight.
A police officer talks to a driver at a checkpoint in Watertown, Massachusetts.
Police officers keep a man on the ground in Watertown on Friday.
Police investigate the scene where the MIT campus police officer was shot and killed on the night of Thursday, April 18, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Tracing the suspected bombers' roots
Five other police officers, including two who had just finished their shifts, then arrived at what Deveau called a "very tight area" in the middle of an intense shootout.
"We estimate there was over 200 shots fired in a five- to 10-minute period," Deveau said.
One of the brothers threw an explosive at the officers. They later discovered it was a pressure cooker bomb, similar to the ones used at the marathon Monday, the chief said.
Suspect could face charges in hospital
"We find the pressure cooker embedded in the car down the street, so there's a major explosion during this gunfight (with) my officers -- six of my officers that I'm extremely proud of," Deveau said.
The brothers also allegedly threw other explosives at the officers. "They were lighting them and throwing them," Deveau said, adding they were "very rough devices."
Two exploded and two did not. Police later found a sixth explosive in one of the cars.
At one point, the older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, came directly toward police, Deveau said.
"He all of a sudden comes out from under cover and just starts walking down the street, shooting at our police officers, trying to get closer," Deveau said. "Now, my closest officer is five to 10 feet away, and they're exchanging gunfire between them. And he runs out of ammunition -- the bad guy -- and so one of my police officers comes off the side and tackles him in the street.
"We're trying to get him handcuffed. There's two or three police officers handcuffing him in the street -- the older brother. At the same time, at the last minute -- they obviously have tunnel vision, it's a very, very stressful situation -- one of them yells out, 'Look out!' and here comes the black SUV, the carjacked car, directly at them. They dive out of the way, and he (the younger brother) drives over his brother and drags him a short distance down the street."
Tamerlan Tsarnaev was later pronounced dead at the hospital. Officers then saw that a transit police officer who arrived after the first five was shot in the groin during the firefight.
The younger brother drove off amid more gunfire, Deveau said. He got two or three streets away, with officers in pursuit, then dumped the car and ran into the darkness, he said.
Two police officers tended to their wounded colleague, who had serious bleeding.
"They just deserve all kinds of credit for saving that gentleman's life up until this point," said Deveau, who didn't name the wounded officer. "Our prayers are still with him and the family, because he's still in a tough way. He lost a lot of blood at the scene there, but we hope he can make a recovery."
It was the fatal shooting of another officer that kicked off the series of events late Thursday night. Sean Collier, a campus police officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was responding to a loud disturbance call when one of the brothers shot him in his cruiser, Deveau said.
From there, the brothers allegedly carjacked the Mercedes, forcing the driver to withdraw money from an ATM. They eventually let the victim go, but not before telling him they were responsible for both the marathon bombings and the police officer's death, Deveau said.
Luckily for law enforcement, the victim's cell phone remained in the SUV, allowing police to determine the vehicle was in Watertown and eventually catch up to it.
The manhunt for Dzhokar Tsarnaev lasted all day Friday and brought much of Boston to a standstill. Then, in the evening, authorities finally got a tip: A Watertown man told police someone was hiding in his boat in the backyard, bleeding. It turned out to be their suspect, Deveau said.
"At that point, we had a couple of thousand police officers on the scene. The turnout was just incredible," he said.
Officers could see Tsarnaev poking through the tarp covering the boat, and then a gunfire erupted, Deveau said. Police used "flash-bangs," devices meant to stun people with a loud noise, and started 20 to 30 minutes of negotiation with Tsarnaev.
Police had no idea whether he had weapons or explosives with him, so they repeatedly told him to stand up and lift his shirt to show he wasn't wearing a device, Deveau said
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An FBI negotiator was on the second floor of the house looking down at the boat, but he couldn't see Tsarnaev under the tarp. A state police helicopter overhead used a heat sensor to determine that Tsarnaev was alive and moving, Deveau said.
Eventually Tsarnaev stood up and lifted his shirt for the officers.
"At that point, once we saw that, we felt comfortable enough to send some officer tactical equipment to grab him and pull him away from the boat," Deveau said. "He needed first aid, so he was transported by ambulance into a Boston hospital."
Investigators are still combing through all the crime scenes, including the boat, so Deveau said he didn't have details yet on what items Tsarnaev may have had with him when he was captured. And they still don't know where the brothers allegedly got the weapons, explosives and know-how.
Police are confident, however, that there are no other suspects, Deveau said.
"From what I know right now, these two acted together and alone," he said. "As far as this little cell and this little group, I think we got our guys."
