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Strip of brighton avenue outside downtown boston. a week ago thursday night, it began with suspect tamerlan tsarnaev pounding ong the victim s car and demanded a ride. it left the victim shaken. tamerlan tsarnaev wielded a silver handgun when he climbed into the black per sad december suv. the suspect s first words. he said, did you hear about the bombing, the marathon bombing? i said, i did. he said, well, that s me. i did that. and i just killed a cambridge cop. reporter: a krimologist at the university counseled the victim and knows every detail of the story. the victim, a cnese national, did not want to go on camera, but only agreed to be referred to by his american nickname danny. he gave a description of the carjacking to the boston globe which professor fox confirmed to cnn. the victim said when he pulled off the curb with tamerlan in the passenger seat, dzhokhar was following in another vehicle. it was hard to drive at first. ....
Experience, exclusively to the boston globe. boston globe reporter eric muskowitz spoke with cnn s john berman. what stuck out to me is danny really has probably of all the millions of people of greater boston the perfect combination of innocence, poise, and calm. if it had been almost maybe anyone, any one of us or a little different twist here or there danny wouldn t have survived and the brothers would have gotten on to new york. it is really an incredible story. danny is an amazing guy. reporter: 90 minutes he spent in that car with one or both of the brothers at different times. how did he manage to escape? take it back to the beginning. first of all it starts with danny stopping his car to send a text message. if you question if anyone actually does it, it s danny. they pull up behind him. the older brother gets out, raps on the window. he doesn t hear it and lowers the window. tamerlan opens the door, pulls a gun on him. takes what money he has and tells him to drive. the ....
That s just outside of boston. our affiliate continuing to watch this move several days after dzhokhar tsarnaev, the 19-year-old suspect was found underneath a tarp in that boat, a dramatic moment obviously in this entire, entire saga. there are some pictures of what they saw when they discovered him in the boat finally coming out. the person who lived in that home saw some blood, called 911. the police came over. they discovered him hiding out in that boat. now that boat is being moved to a different location. we ll find out where it s going. we ll update you with more as it becomes available. you can see that boat being towed through the streets of watertown right now. for 90 minutes he was allegedly held prisoner in his own car by the bombing suspects and was threatened with death. now a 26-year-old chinese entrepreneur wants to be identified only by his american nickname, danny. has told his harrowing ....
early on in the drive, danny is obviously quite nervous, and driving somewhat erratically because of his nerves. and tamerlan said, oh, relax, calm, drive slowly. reporter: they drove from brighton to watertown, into cambridge, about 90 minutes in all. we retraced the route. at one point, professor fox says, the two vehicles pulled over. the brothers got out and unloaded objects from dzhokhar s vehicle into his trunk. he thought it was luggage. reporter: they ditched dzhokhar s car. they were three in danny s vehicle. he realized at that point, boy, he may not live to see another day. reporter: tamerlan was then driving, the victim in the passenger seat. dzhokhar in back. they stopped at an atm in watertown, withdrew money from danny s card. in the car, the three of them are talking like normal guys. ....
They caught up with the tsarnaev brothers. without danny s cell phone and his poise, without the satellite technology in the car, who knows how long it could have taken them? what does danny say the brothers said about new york? two things. when i spoke to danny they were speaking english. when they spoke to each other it was a language danny didn t understand. he is trying to listen without making it clear he is listening. tamerlan said if you look at me and see my face i ll kill you. danny very wisely said i didn t see you. i don t remember you. he is trying to hear him and hears the word manhattan come out in this language he doesn t otherwise understand. that gives him an indication they might be going to new york. then they ask him can your car go out of state? he doesn t know what to make of that question so he said what do you mean? they mean like new york. so he says, yeah, yeah. my car can go out of state. speaking to our john berman. next hour by the way cnn s brian tod ....