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Who Really Killed Sean Collier?  It Weren’t the Tsarnaevs

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Sean CollierRed Sox baseball team pays tribute to a slain cop, Photo: dailymail.co.uk 

by Mary W Maxwell, LLB

There is a 2019 book called The Marathon Bombing:  Running for Their Lives, by Blake HOENA, published by Capstone Press.  I have only read it today and found a few bits I had never heard, such as that Officer Sean Collier received five gunshot wounds. I am going to write to the Middlesex County DA, Marian Ryan and ask her to investigate the death, which occurred just 8 years ago on April 18, 2013, three days after the Marathon bombing.

The story provided at the trial of Jahar Tsarnaev is that Jahar, age 19, and his brother Tamerlan, age 26, were of a mind to skip town as fugitives from justice, so they went over to MIT to steal a gun.

Seriously did you fall for that nonsense? The campus of MIT is quite formidable, believe me. It is huge. The very idea of the brothers going somewhere to obtain a weapon is absurd, as they already had – according to the official story — a gun and a pipe bomb.  And maybe some shoulder-held missiles, after all they are MUSLIMS.

At Jahar’s trial, it was said that there were two “witnesses” to Collier’s murder. A student, Nathan Harman, riding his bike after study in the Math building, after 10pm, “saw” Jahar leaning into the cruise car of Sean Collier. That’s the extent of his marvelous witness testimony.  The other witness, Dun Meng, testified, equally marvelously, that when Tamerlan carjacked him, Tamerlan volunteered the information – as no criminal on the lam would do – that he had killed a cop at MIT.

Thanks to my recent little victory of finding the CNN transcript of the “naked-man Tamerlan video,” I have sorted out the Laurel St shootout between two gunmen and cops. I know confidently that the Tsarnaevs were not present at the Laurel St shootout. The famous Ruger gun, supposedly borrowed by Jahar from a friend by Jahar, was found it that scene, so I am guessing it was planted there.

A best buddy of Jahar, Stephen Silva, poor thing, gave “testimony” at the trial about having lent his Ruger to Jahar. I ask you: if cops were leaning on you (or on your mother or your child) would you cave in and give false testimony?  I think I would. Ratting on Jahar got Silva immunity from drug-sale crime.

So really we have no candidates for the role of murderer of Sean Collier that night. Even the bike-riding Nathan Harman did not hear gunshots.  And the supervisor of campus police rode past, Sgt Henniger, was making his rounds at the alleged moment of Sean’s death, 10:24pm, without seeing or hearing any trouble.

Makes ya wunda, doesn’t it?  Oh, and that afternoon, hours before the killing, the MIT campus was supposedly swarming with FBI.  No explanation given. Fine I’ll go with my imagination.

Doesn’t Sean deserve to have his real killer named?  Is it some sort of “honor” that he died in connection with the Marathon bombing?  I mean in the mythological story?  And would Sean really want the Red Sox to worship him as a hero for – supposedly – just sitting in his cruise car and taking five bullets?  Would he be pleased to know that a fellow 26-year-old, Tamerlan, or the 19 year old apprentice killer (I’m kidding) got wrongly blamed? I don’t think so.

Ah, I’ve just looked up the address of DA Ryan. Her website says “The true essence of what we do is to protect and serve.”  Excellent.  Also, she has just appointed a Director of Racial Justice Initiatives, Ms Antonia Soares Thompson.  I will point out that the racial slurs against the Tsarnaevs never stop.

Tidbits

Back to the book by Blake Hoena, who “has written more than 100 books for children.” This one is mostly a story of the Marathon event itself, a pleasant read.  The race begins outside Boston in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. It is 26.2 miles long.  Houena says over 1,000 uniformed police were instructed to mingle with the crowd.

Among the surprises as to who’s who among the runners: William Evans wasn’t simply the police chief that day, he’s a runner, having done 18 Boston Marathons.  He finished this one in 3 hours 20 minutes, then went to the Athletic Club and was in a hot tub when informed of the blast on Boylston St.  Evans had to return to the scene and did not get to bed till 10pm the next night.

Another surprise (to me) was that a pediatrician from Boston Children’s Hospital, Dr Natalie Stavas, ran the Marathon, coming to the finish line just around the time of the bombing and so was able to administer CPR resuscitation to Lingzi Lu, who nevertheless died. Dr Stavas mentioned that she was told by police to leave the premises as there might still be more bombs.

The manager of the race, David McGillivray, organized the whole route, the cement block barriers against car traffic, the porto-potties, and the delivering to the finish line of all the little bags which the runners had yielded up at Hopkinton, with their cell phone, money, etc.

McGillivray could not allow all 30,000 runners to start off together, so he lets the wheelchair ones go first, then the bike-bound, then the Elite Women at 9.32am and the Elite Men at 10:00am.  You always expect an African to win the Elites.  In 2013 it was a girl from Kenya and a guy from Ethiopia.

Another surprise.  Thomas Menino had already been mayor of Boston for 18 years before the bombing. On the day, he was in hospital following surgery on his leg. His son, a cop, was stationed at the finish line.

And I had not known that the president got into the act at 6pm that day, April 15, 2013.  That is to say, Obama went on TV.  He announced ‘We still do not know who did this or why.”  (He should have phoned me in Adelaide.  I knew immediately.)

Obama promised that “Any responsible individuals, any responsible groups will feel the full weight of justice.”  Yes, good. It’s taking some time. But whenever I get into a taxi in Boston the drivers seem to be aware. Won’t be long now.

One more thing from the 2019 Hoena book. As you may have heard, the double amputee Jeff Bauman, when in the ambulance, tried to tell the paramedic that he thought he had spotted the bomber. (That much is in Bauman’s book, Stronger.) But now we learn from page 67 of The Boston Marathon Bombing: Running for Their Lives.

“Just two days after Bauman nearly lost his life, an FBI sketch artist walked into his [hospital] room. Over the next couple of hours, Bauman did his best to describe the suspicious figure he had seen at the Marathon. To his surprise, the artist’s final result was an incredible likeness of the man he remembered.”

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  1. I saw a tweet on twitter today, some fella saying how, and this is not verbatim, that if the cops did their job, everyone would trust them.

    to further his point he simply added, again, Im paraphrasing….

    aint no song called fuck the firemen!

  2. Mary, I think I am going to start training piegon. I will send Jahar, one piegon a day, with a piece of paper with a question and a pen, hoping that the FBI, or the CIA won’t kill the pigeon. It seems it is the only way we will get the real story. By the way I just checked pathologist Jennifer Robinson’s testimony and Collier was shot 3 times in the head and 2 to 3 times in the hand.

    I heard a story a few years back that Obama called Collier’s mother to let her know that he son would be o.k.

    However I have a copy of a court document filed by Collier complaining about police hiring practice (off hand I cannot remember the name of the town). Look maybe they killed him because they wanted to silence him. There was money involved, you pay a certain amount of money and you got hired! As funny as it is that town gave him a post-death police badge.

    • I think it was the town of Somerville, Josee. I wonder if there is anything to the Obama story.

      As for “hoping that the CIA won’t kill the pigeon,” well….

      if pigs could fly….

  3. Excuse me, Gumshoers. I have to tell you that I made a mistake in my article about the Gabe Ramirez remarks on the CNN transcript. I will ask Dee to publish an UPDATE there, but for now here is the correction. Let me quote:

    “GRIFFIN: I just want to clarify a couple of things. Gabe Ramirez, the photojournalist… I had him walk back to our satellite truck and take a good look at the video he shot. We now believe that the naked person, the person who was taken into custody naked, which we showed earlier and the second quote-unquote “suspect,” whom Gabe had described being arrested but we have not shown. We believe that’s the same person.”

    Because the CNN coordinatorJake Tapper was also chatting about the FBI’s release of photos — and he was showing them on CNN — I thought the phrase “We believe that’s the same person” meant “We’ve got a match between the FBI photo of suspect and the naked man video’d by Gabe walking towards the police car.” [By the way, and in the original video on Youtube we actually saw that naked man step into the cop car).

    On closer reading, I see that Drew Griffin was answering Tapper’s question as to whether a “second suspect” had been caught. It seems that Gabe told Drew that a man (whom I call “Billy”) had also been stripped — as Gabe learned from shouts rather than from seeing the strip occur.

    I now repeat as above: “GRIFFIN: We now believe that the naked person, the person who was taken into custody naked [I say Tamerlan], which we showed earlier and the second quote-unquote “suspect,” whom Gabe had described being arrested but we have not shown. We believe that’s the same person.”

    Unfortunately that is not as portentous as having Gabe say “I looked at the FBI photo and I reviewed my naked man video and declare them to be the same.”

    Gabe was mainly indicating to Tapper that he, Gabe, knew of two naked men, one whom he actually saw and another being interrogated whom he did not see, but only heard a cop yelling about.. He deduced that they are the same. It was a guess by Gabe. Drat.

    I apologize for misreading it. And I will talk about Billy in a future article, dv.

  4. I was always curious about all of the tagged evidence on Vassar St.—as the shooting supposedly occurred inside Sean Collier’s police cruiser(which was disposed of).

    https://abcnews.go.com/US/images-show-sean-collier-murder-scene-boston-marathon/story?id=29556597

    Ofc Clarence Henniger found Collier in police cruiser—appeared shot in temple, neck and hand.

    ‘ Within 45 seconds, another officer arrived at the scene and helped Henniger pull Collier out of his vehicle. Henniger said it was tough to get a grip on Collier, who was covered in blood…
    [concern about Collier’s possibly missing Smith and Wesson .45]
    …Cambridge Police Detective Brendan O’Hearn said he responded to the “officer down” report on the radio and began performing chest compressions on Collier.
    “His face and his neck were covered in blood,” O’Hearn said. “He had some type of a wound to his head. There was blood coming from his mouth. Sounded almost like a gurgling from his mouth.” ‘

    https://dailyfreepress.com/2015/03/12/tsarnaev-trial-testimony-focuses-on-death-of-mit-police-officer-sean-collier/

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