SWAT Officers on Arresting Bombing Suspect: “We Got Him”

"We got him." That was what patrolman Saro Thompson, the Boston transit cop who cuffed marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, told fellow cop Richard Donahue -- who was seriously injured during a shootout with Tsarnaev and his older brother Friday -- when he visited Donahue in the hospital Monday. Thompson told reporters Monday that he had arrived at the final scene of the manhunt for Tsarnaev Friday after an FBI negotiator convinced the accused bomber to surrender. He and other team members said they were unsure whether the boat was rigged with explosives. They recalled seeing their target lying on his side in the boat, possibly unconscious. The SWAT officers were about 10 to 15 yards away when Tsarnaev suddenly sat up. "At a time like that, training kicks in," Thompson recalled.

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