Carjacking victim describes harrowing night
Source: Boston Globe
The 26-year-old Chinese entrepreneur had just pulled his new Mercedes to the curb on Brighton Avenue to answer a text when an old sedan swerved behind him, slamming to a stop. A man in dark clothes got out and approached the passenger window. It was nearly 11 p.m. last Thursday.
The man rapped on the glass, speaking quickly. Danny, unable to hear him, lowered the window -- and the man reached an arm through, unlocked the door, and climbed in, brandishing a silver handgun.
Dont be stupid, he told Danny. He asked if he had followed the news about Mondays Boston Marathon bombings. Danny had, down to the release of the grainy suspect photos less than six hours earlier.
I did that, said the man, who would later be identified as Tamerlan Tsarnaev. And I just killed a policeman in Cambridge.
http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2013/04/25/carjack-victim-recounts-his-harrowing-night/BhQWGzarWee8MZ6KtMHJNN/story.html
Read more: http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2013/04/25/carjack-victim-recounts-his-harrowing-night/BhQWGzarWee8MZ6KtMHJNN/story.html
Finally! Another important piece of the puzzle from that night.
Another unlikely hero: "Danny" (no last name yet...Danny told the Globe reporter, Eric Moskowitz, that he doesn't want his mother back in China to worry about him!)
Update: The Globe has added a brief interview with the reporter at the link.
trumad
(41,692 posts)or he would have been stuck with these two clowns the whole night.
He deserves major props for bringing this thing to an end.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,020 posts)Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)They couldn't let him go, could they? He would have set off the alarm and the hunt.
They had him tell his roommate he was sleeping somewhere else so that the car would not be flagged by the police.
His courage saved his own life and probably others. I hope he is not put off life in the US by this.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)what is otherwise a very sad and fundamentally incomprehensible crime.
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)Glad he got to make that phone call in the end.
itsrobert
(14,157 posts)A $50,000 car and starting up his own company? I wonder what category of visa, he is here under?
FailureToCommunicate
(14,020 posts)trumad
(41,692 posts)I wouldn't want my name published.
wicket
(14,901 posts)They are attacking anyone and everyone who doesn't support their "theory" that Jahar is innocent. I don't blame "Danny" one bit.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)Right now reporters, like packs of baying wolves, are hunting down anyone they can find with any connection.
Further, even if you assume that the brothers were acting entirely alone, to some people he will be the villain in this story. It is not the safest type of notoriety. He has a real life, and wants to keep it.
harmonicon
(12,008 posts)I mean, whose job did this guy "take," you know? However, it seems I don't have to. Hatred and xenophobia reign on DU these days.
itsrobert
(14,157 posts)Maybe he really is here on a Student Visa and working instead? How much do you want to bet he is not authorized to work in this country?
Dan Ken
(149 posts)after returning to his native country, and came back with that permit.
So I don't think it's fair to make stuff up about him.
itsrobert
(14,157 posts)It says he went back to China to wait for a work permit. It doesn't say he actually got one. Don't say "specifically" when that is not the facts as reported.
harmonicon
(12,008 posts)Umm... he said he told the guys who kidnapped him that he was a student. You know he said that because he told a journalist that. You know that, right? While reading the article did you instead get lost in a dream world where you thought you were remote viewing the experience?
itsrobert
(14,157 posts)"He came back two months ago, leasing a Mercedes and moving into a high-rise with two Chinese friends while diving into a startup."
Is he here on an EB-5? That takes a lot of money.
http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.eb1d4c2a3e5b9ac89243c6a7543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=13ad2f8b69583210VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD&vgnextchannel=13ad2f8b69583210VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD
Does he have exceptional abilities in his field?
harmonicon
(12,008 posts)itsrobert
(14,157 posts)don't add up?
harmonicon
(12,008 posts)You started this quagmire you've gotten yourself into by insinuating that someone would want stay anonymous for nefarious reasons with zero reason.
itsrobert
(14,157 posts)I can take a hint. (you really don't want to know the true story, just a puff piece put out by the press)
thanks
I will shut up now, until the real truth comes out. And it will.
harmonicon
(12,008 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Most Americans can't afford college these days.
treestar
(82,383 posts)Merely being here from a foreign country does not mean one is not wealthy or from a wealthy family.
itsrobert
(14,157 posts)of many.
harmonicon
(12,008 posts)JackN415
(924 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,020 posts)Globe reporter, Eric Moskowitz, being interviewed on WBUR where Moskowitz says "Danny" only wanted to give him his first name...so his mother back in China would not worry. It was nothing more mysterious, or nefarious, than that.
New to the link is now part of the interview with the reporter.
Really?
Historic NY
(37,452 posts)jakeXT
(10,575 posts)Danny is probably not his real name ....
trumad
(41,692 posts)Only on DU would something as inane be discussed.
octothorpe
(962 posts)Something's not right here.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)I teach English abroad and usually most of my students (no all) have an English nickname. It is very possible that is his English nickname that he goes by with his friends.
El Fuego
(6,502 posts)I know someone named Danhui, and he goes by Dan.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)That they pick something that is close to or sounds close to their native name. The other way I've seen people do that is to use half or a part of their name. For example the name Hyunjin may just got be Jin.
Most of the Korean and Chinese names are very hard for me pronounce (I've taught in both countries) and I feel so horrible when I mispronounce them. Thankfully my wife has one of the easiest names to pronounce.
treestar
(82,383 posts)Asian immigrants sometimes pick out a name to use as Americans may mispronounce their actual name.
Wernothelpless
(410 posts)This one man made all the difference ...
He may not want to be a hero, but he is ...
FailureToCommunicate
(14,020 posts)Jeff Bauman and Carlos Arredondo
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Last edited Sat Apr 27, 2013, 09:03 PM - Edit history (1)
To do that requires a level of cold bloodedness and uncaring about hurting others that is shocking. I'm not sure if Bauman saw Jahar, as the story I read said he ID'd Tamerlan. But he may have seen them both.
It was just before the explosion that shredded his legs. Video of the two brothers caused the police to be suspicious, because they seemed so calm in the mayhem. No doubt they showed the images to Jeff as he lay in the hospital. And now here we are, on the verge of a trial that will make history.
Carlos Arredondo's jumping over the barricades to carry Bauman to emergency personnel and the fine doctors of Boston are all part of bringing this horror to an close. When the trial begins and the victims have their say, Jahar will learn how their plans for glory or revenge failed. And maybe, he will even learn the why of it.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,020 posts)next door neighbor.... Your student. We are still reacting at a gut level. And, even though I lost two friends in the Twin Towers attack...this still feels more personal. Weird.
You are so right about the irony. That would make anyone think about believing in karma.
I hadn't thought much about what you pointed out, till now. Thanks.
Victor_c3
(3,557 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,020 posts)Pterodactyl
(1,687 posts)What did Chinese people ever do to them?
SunSeeker
(51,658 posts)As far as I can tell from the media reports, they didn't specifically target Chinese people. Only two Chinese people were reported as victims. It appears the carjacking victim was picked because Ol' Speedbump and Gilligan have a thing for Mercedes and this guy was stopped on the side of the road with his engine running, providing an opportunity. And the Chinese grad student who died happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time, like the over 200 other victims of this senseless act.
Pterodactyl
(1,687 posts)Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Being at work, school, running in the marathon, on their way and living their lives. The ones who shoot, bomb or maim are in the wrong. I know you aren't flippant, but I have thought a lot about his words, when he disputed that common saying at memorial services.
As Will PItt or another said, instead of complaining of rights being endangered by the shelter in place request, the police in Boston restored real freedom. Which the runners and this student had the right to expect.
El Fuego
(6,502 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)Then again they probably didn't have a lot of options. It sounds like beyond the bombings themselves they didn't really think about what they would do after that. Not only that they picked a vehicle that had GPS that could be tracked with an iPhone.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)these two (the other one being the guy who had the boat in his backyard). He was able to help bring justice for the four people and hundreds of injured including someone from his own country who was murdered.
I hope Danny took the second chance and told the gal in NY how he feels.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)uppityperson
(115,678 posts)alive and got to call 911.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,020 posts)Every reporter in the Western Hemishere wanted to talk to this guy. Wonder how Moskowitz got to him...