Tsarnaev Case: A Fodder Person in the Watertown Shoot-out?

by Mary W Maxwell, LLB

Dear Dr Mindy Hull, Massachusetts Medical Examiner

I mailed you a letter (copy enclosed) back in August of this year, 2018, in which I requested an Inquest into the April 19, 2013 death of Tamerlan Tsarnaev. I am writing to you now to demand an inquest into the death of another person whom we will have to call “John Doe.”

At famous shootout took place on Laurel St, Watertown, in the wee hours of April 19, 2013, allegedly in connection with the Boston Marathon bombing that occurred four days earlier.

Officer Ric Donohue was injured in that shootout, and “two terrorists” – who were said to be the instigators of the shootout, the Tsarnaev brothers — were wounded, one fatally.

During the 2015 trial of young Dzhokhar “Jahar” Tsarnaev, it was said, without any questioning, that it was Tamerlan and Jahar Tsarnaev, who were there on Laurel Street causing the trouble.

We later found out that Tamerlan could not have been there as he was arrested on Mt Auburn St and placed into a cop car, naked, without any apparent injuries. Gabe Ramirez of CNN knows the story well as he reported it live on TV.

Fodder

The reason I ask you to hold an inquest into the death of John Doe is that I now think that a man did die on Laurel St and that he was what is known in the CIA trade as “fodder” – a disposable human being.

I speculate that he, John Doe (along with a smaller-built man, not necessarily a brother or kin), was instructed to go to Laurel St and create the rumpus that night.

The official story is that the two men had at least one gun and also had explosive devices that they hurled at police. In my earlier letter to you, Dr Hull, I quoted the testimony that Officer Reynolds gave at Jahar’s trial. He described what he did and what Officer Pugliese did. Both are officers of the Watertown Police.

Now I am going to quote from testimony at that same trial, given by prosecution witness Sgt John MacLellan of the Watertown Police. He was the supervisor on duty that night.

As his testimony occurred two years later than the shootout, MacLellan – along with all Massachusetts folks – had had time to be told that the name of the shooters on Laurel St were Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Thus the sergeant was not asked to say how he determined the identity of his arrestee. “Everybody knew.”

I consider it certain that it was not Tamerlan Tsarnaev – for reasons laid out in my earlier letter.  Tamerlan was taken into custody, naked and uninjured, at 1:05am on Mt Auburn St, Watertown.

Therefore, the man in the shootout on Laurel St is unidentified. He is also dead.

I ask you to determine the man’s identity.  Supposedly he died right there on the street – Sgt MacLellan says he saw the man bleed to death — or else he died on the way to a hospital.

Now please listen to MacLellan’s sworn testimony at Jahar’s trial, in which the questions are being asked by the prosecutor.

Testimony at Jahar’s Trial by Sgt John MacLellan

A. The older brother. Q. What happened? A. I was standing in the middle of the street. I had an empty weapon at the time but the suspect didn’t know that. I was giving him commands, “Get on the ground.” He had nothing in his hands. My thought was he was strapped with explosives. I was telling him to get on the ground; I didn’t want him to get near me. He was coming closer. Sergeant Pugliese put his hand on his shoulder, and he collapsed in the middle of the ground — in the middle of the street.

… Pugliese] said “We have got to cuff him. We have got to cuff him.” And I jumped on top and tried to help him. Q. Did he turn out to be strapped with any explosives? A. No. Q. What happened to prevent you from cuffing?

A. As we were trying to ascertain if he had anything on him and trying to get his hands, I was yelling out, “You still got someone down range. Watch down range. Watch down range.” And almost immediately I heard, “Sarge, here he comes. Here he comes.” Q. Who are you referring to? A. The defendant. [Jahar] Q. What was he doing?

A. He was in the Mercedes now. You could hear the grinding of gears. You could hear that the vehicle was turning around. I looked up and it was coming towards us. Q. How fast was it coming? A. Very fast. Q. What happened? A. I told Sergeant Pugliese to disengage. I told him, “Get off him [Tamerlan]. Get off him. Here he comes.” I pushed off and the vehicle struck the suspect and what I thought struck Sergeant Pugliese.

It was a very violent — the car was jumping back and forth. [Tamerlan] got stuck up under the wheels. And as it passed, I saw Sergeant Pugliese there, I asked him, “Are you all right?” He said, “I’m okay.” The vehicle continued on …  it was bouncing back and forth. It struck the front of Officer Reynolds’ vehicle. Q. What happened to — the suspect who was caught up under the Mercedes, was that Tamerlan Tsarnaev? A. Yes, it was. [Notice the Defense didn’t ask “Hey, how did you know that?”]

How To Deal with This

Dr Hull, I do not by any means accuse MacLellan of making the whole thing up. So please try to imagine that the guy being discussed here is not Tamerlan. Therefore it is “John Doe.” If my conspiracy-theory explanation of the Marathon bombing is correct (I have written a serious book on the subject), then two men on Laurel St were “assigned” to go there and fight with cops.

This is a terrible thing, completely apart from the Marathon event, or the fate of Jahar who is now on Death Row.

Dr Hull, I imagine you are familiar, as the Medical Examiner of Massachusetts, with all manner of sordid goings-on. But maybe you don’t know about persons being under complete control (like kamikaze pilots?) where they will carry out instructions that could well cause their own death.

If my belief is correct that two non-Tsarnaev persons were on Laurel St “attacking police,” it may be that they did not know why they were sent there.  Yet they must have been sent there. The upshot of their “shootout” was that the scripted story about the Tsarnaev’s would have physical proof. Bostonians could rest easy knowing that justice was served.

Please look the enclosed photo of the shootout, which was taken by Andrew Kitzenberg who lived just at that part of Laurel St in an upstairs apartment. See the two men near the headlights in the photo.

It is preposterous that two men, guilty of bombing a Marathon and of having shot a cop two hours earlier at MIT, would walk into the headlights of a vehicle.  No one would do that. This supports my hypothesis that the men in the photo are stooges, or whatever you call it.  We citizens need to get this sorted out.

I recommend you start by learning about the ambulance that carried the man, allegedly, to Beth Israel Hospital.  Do you realize that the Mt Auburn hospital is within cooee of the shoot-out?  So why drive to Brookline?

My Questions

Do police records for that night talk about the disposal of the Mercedes?  As you see from the police testimony, the younger man hopped into the Mercedes and ran over John Doe.

Does the autopsy of John Doe (mis-identified as Tamerlan) show run-over type injuries?  Another neighbor on Laurel St, a Mr Floyd, says he watched from his 3rd-floor apartment and saw the tail lights bounce up when the man got run over.

Please interview the former Police Commissioner of Watertown, Ed Deveau, who went on radio shortly after the episode and said that “Tamerlan” had been dragged 40 feet.  That is not compatible with being actually under the car.  What was Deveau’s source for the 40-feet story?

I also note that Officer Reynolds said in his testimony that Tamerlan (read: John Doe) was “combative” even after being injured by the car. That is too much of a stretch for my imagination.

Please also question Officer St Onge.  He chased after the boy (“Jahar” but not really Jahar) when the boy got out of the car and ran away.  By the way, that boy supposedly had bullet wounds at this point.  Would he go to a hospital? And how does St Onge explain his own inability to catch the boy?  Didn’t he try to immobilize his quarry by shooting him in the leg?  (Or earlier by shooting the tires of the car he was driving? What are the rules for getting a person who is trying to escape?

Jahar Is Your Best Witness

Madame Medical Examiner, the best person for you to interview is, of course, Jahar.  He is in Supermax Prison, Florence Colorado. Once you open an Inquest for John Doe you will have all the subpoena power you need.

Perhaps Officer Ric Donohue, who was wounded in the shootout, could give insight. He is not Watertown police but MBTA Transit police, which houses a special operations group.

Please also summon Ed Deveau as a witness, chief of Watertown police.  He contributed to the colorful story, as quoted at boston.com in an article on April 21, 2-1 by Mark Arsenault and Sean Murphy.

“Quickly we had six Watertown police officers and two bad guys in a gunfight,’’ said Deveau. At least 200 shots were fired; maybe as many as 300, he said.

The shots, around 12:50 a.m., woke resident Jennings Aske, at 66 Laurel Ave. When he looked out his window he saw a green Honda Civic sedan stopped in the street, with its lights on and the driver’s side windows blown out. A husky man – apparently Tamerlan Tsarnaev — stood nearby firing a gun.

“I saw him standing there shooting at police,’’ Aske said. “When he fired, there was a little flash of light. I could hear the gun firing. It was terrifying.’’

As a taxpayer I’d be interested to know how 6 cops could shoot 200 bullets at 2 men standing nearby and not capture them.

Speaking of “husky man,” the man in Kitzenberg’s photo does look bigger than Tamerlan.

I also ask you to contact photographer Andrew Kitzenberg to see if he can supply any more information. Did he see “the baddies” on his street before the cops showed up?  The narrative says that police had learned from Dun Meng that the brothers were driving his Mercedes SUV, and because it was a rental car it could be tracked, so the cops then tracked it to Watertown.

Here is part of an article about Andrew Kitzenberg, published 4 days after the shootout:

“Watertown Man Captures Photos of Violent Shootout From His Bedroom Window.”  Boston.CBSlocal.com dated April 23, 2013.

“When Andrew Kitzenberg heard gunshots early Friday morning, he immediately went to a third floor bedroom and began snapping photographs of the terrifying action. He didn’t know what he was capturing in the photographs were the two brothers accused of planting two bombs at the Boston Marathon finish line last week.

“’I could see the suspects taking cover behind their black Mercedes,’ Kitzenberg told WBZ-TV. ‘I originally thought it was related to the MIT shooting but when I started taking pictures and witnessing it and I saw the explosives, I knew we were dealing with something bigger.’

“In the photos, the two men are seen with what police later confirmed, was a pressure cooker bomb. ‘From my vantage point, I could see very clearly a small metal device that resembled the pressure cooker bombs from images I’d seen earlier that week,’ he said. ‘I saw them throwing explosives toward officers down our street’.”

“Kitzenberg also captured Tamerlan Tsarnaev on the ground as his brother Dzhokhar drove toward police. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev ran over his brother as he drove away from the scene. Tamerlan Tsarnaev later died.

“’I witnessed him (Tamerlan Tsarnaev) running down the street, shooting at officers before he was ultimately taken down just before he reached officers,’ Kitzenberg said. Kitzenberg is a Babson College graduate and owner of onHand, a company that makes USB drive wristbands. He has created a Boston Strong bracelet now on sale for $19.95 with 100-percent of proceeds going toward One Fund Boston.”

I would appreciate your asking Kitzenberg why he used still photos instead of video.

Thank you.

Yours sincerely,

Mary Maxwell [address supplied]