Tamerlan Tsarnaev

Quotes[edit]

So what if a kid dies? God will take care of him.
- In April 2013, as quoted in "Boston Bombing Day 1: The Stunning Stop the Killers Made After the Attack" (18 April 2016), by Brian Ross, ABC News

Do you know the Boston Marathon explosion? I did it.
- To Dun Meng (April 2013), as quoted in "Boston Bombing Day 4: The Firefight: 'I Thought We Were Gonna Die'" (21 April 2016), by Brian Ross, ABC News

These two mass murders were not the tip of the spear of a new invasion of al-Qaeda terrorists. These were two dysfunctional angry young men.
- Douglas Fields, Why We Snap: Understanding the Rage Circuit in Your Brain (2016), p. 220

Had about eight bullets in him and he was still fighting us... The only thing I had was my empty gun and I pistol-whipped him. I was trying to knock him out. I hit him as hard as I could, 10 or 12 times, couldn't knock him out... I only did it because I thought we were gonna die. I mean, truly, thought we were gonna die.
- John MacLellan, as quoted in "Boston Bombing Day 4: The Firefight: 'I Thought We Were Gonna Die'" (21 April 2016), by Brian Ross, ABC News

He came charging up the street, shooting at me... So we're about six feet apart when he ran up that driveway, and he was shooting at me and I was exchanging gunfire with him... I'm lying there and I saw the front wheels go over Tamerlan. I saw him bounce up underneath the carriage a couple of times. I saw him get hung up in the rear wheels and get dragged 20, 25 feet... All we saw was taillights at that point.
- Jeff Pugliese, as quoted in "Boston Bombing Day 4: The Firefight: 'I Thought We Were Gonna Die'" (21 April 2016), by Brian Ross, ABC News

He put a shame; he put a shame on our family. The Tsarni family! He put a shame on the entire Chechen ethnicity!
- Ruslan Tsarni, as quoted in Why We Snap: Understanding the Rage Circuit in Your Brain (2016), by Douglas Fields, p. 220