CBS News: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev May Have Attempted Suicide Before Capture

[Tx4obama]

CBS News: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev May Have Attempted Suicide Before Capture
April 20, 2013 9:29 PM

BOSTON (CBS) — Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bombings suspect captured alive Friday, may have tried to commit suicide before he was apprehended, according to CBS News.

Tsarnaev suffered at least two bullet wounds — including one to his neck — before he was arrested in Watertown, CBS News security analyst John Miller said Saturday night.

The bullet wound to the neck, which has an exit wound in the back of the 19-year-old’s neck, “is very possibly a suicide attempt,” said Miller, a former assistant director at the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Miller also said the neck wound is the primary reason why Tsarnaev is unable to speak with investigators, who are hoping to interrogate the suspect to find out, among other factors, whether he and his older brother acted alone in the bombing attack on the Boston Marathon.

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http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/04/20/cbs-news-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-may-have-attempted-suicide-before-capture/#.UXNKeqCfBOc.twitter

[warrior1]

1. He's pulling it out of his ass

He's only speculating

[Cali_Democrat]

5. Amazing how everyone behind a keyboard is now a terrorism expert

This guy is now also a forensic pathologist because he has concluded the trajectory of the bullet leads him to believe it was a suicide attempt.

Amazing.

[pinboy3niner]

16. Highly speculative

Unfortunately, even the eventual release of the official autopsy report probably won't stop this shit.

[Cha]

2. I guess we'll find out. you'd think he'd

want to finish the job when he was laid up in the boat? Seeing that link that said he might not of lived had he not been found.

Good Alert citizen who notified the Police!

thanks Tx

[defacto7]

3. Or maybe he shot himself in the

throat on purpose so he wouldn't be able to talk. Stupid idea, I know. But they both were pretty stupid in all of this, why not If he had the idea that not being able to speak would eliminate some level of communication. Oh who knows.

[Union Scribe]

4. That strikes me as odd.

Can't say I've ever heard of suicide by neck shot.

[LisaL]

7. He might have put a gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger.

But instead of shooting himself in the head he shot himself in the neck.

[Skittles]

11. some people are afraid of surviving a head shot, all fucked up

so they go for carotid or heart

[Raine]

15. The theory is that he put the gun in his mouth, shot the gun and the bullet exited thru

the back of his neck. I guess we'll find out what happened eventually.

[BeyondGeography]

6. Whatever

Smug little asshole is still here. So glad he will feel the hate he has so richly earned.

[Fawke Em]

14. I don't hate him.

I feel sorry for him. AND I feel sorry for the families he destroyed. Something's totally fucked up in our being.

[RedCappedBandit]

8. All he would have had to do is approach the police in a threatening manner and he'd be dead.

[FarCenter]

9. You've got to get the angle right

Woman in a dorm attempted a shot to the temple -- managed to blow an eye out, but survived.

[global1]

10. Weren't They In A Fire Fight Thursday Night?.....

If somebody was shooting at him - isn't it likely that the shot would come from his front and exit out the backside. So the entry and exit wound would be consistent with this fire fight - wouldn't it or am I missing something here?

[ReRe]

12. This has got to be bogus...

... did anyone see that photo of him sitting up on the front of the boat? I would think that he wouldn't be able to sit up like that had he shot himself in the throat. And how could he sit up like that if he had lost so much blood? That photo just defies all credulity.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

13. There was a final standoff at the boat...

The Watertown, Mass., resident became a hero when he discovered suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hiding in his backyard boat. Henneberry quickly called the cops and in a final standoff, his boat was riddled with bullet holes.

http://gma.yahoo.com/support-replace-boat-ruined-bomber-standoff-165345489--abc-news-topstories.html

He probably took some lead during this...