Officials: Boston suspect had no firearm when barrage of bullets hit hiding place

The Washington Post ^ | April 24 | Sari Horwitz and Peter Finn

[CMB_polarization]

Although police feared he was heavily armed, the suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings had no firearms when he came under a barrage of police gunfire that struck the boat where he was hiding, according to multiple federal law enforcement officials.

[dinodino]

So how’d he shoot himself in the throat?

[3Fingas]

I guess they were not taking any chances. But, I notice how the story keeps changing.

[Alberta's Child]

Oops. LOL.

Maybe that's why the Dept. of Homeland Security has been buying millions of rounds of ammunition. Their plan for enhancing security involves shooting hundreds of rounds at unarmed people -- but never actually hitting anyone.

[Sirius Lee]

So how’d he shoot himself in the throat?

Maybe he didn't. Maybe obongo is "telling the truth, slowly" like the clintoons.

[ptsal]

Where was the budget line-item for those purchases???

[molson209]

I hope you’re not believing the bull coming from these so called Officials

[EDINVA]

That was my first thought. Seems some of the ‘actors’ should get their act together and decide what did and did not happen. Just sounds like they made stuff up as they went along.

[VeniVidiVici]

So much for the throat wound being self-inflicted.

[dforest]

I figured he didn’t, otherwise he would have shot the homeowner.

[Alberta's Child]

QE3 ... it’s a “stimulus” measure, don’t you know that?

[ptsal]

note to operator....rotate weapon 90 degrees repeat test...

[C210N]

There could be an easy and innocent explanation for all the discrepancies. Frinstance, can be sure there were multiple authors to the script they used... and some of them were/are on different pages.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

So did they recover any guns from his dead brother? I’ve been wondering about this all along. You can bet they didn’t get an assault rifle. That would have been the headline.

[BenLurkin]

He was already bleeding when he got to the boat.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

The way I’m getting it they killed the cop to steal his gun for Baby Bomber because he didn’t have one, but couldn’t figure how to unlock his holster. Got to wonder about the claims of several pistols and a rifle.

[Erik Latranyi]

This e,plains why the boat-owner was not killed when he looked inside the tarp over the boat.

[mass55th]

"I hope you’re not believing the bull coming from these so called Officials."

They're probably changing the story so the kid won't be charged with illegal weapons possession because the weapons were provided to him and his brother by Eric Holder.

[Bravo six]

Police were told to capture him alive. They intentionally shot up the boat including a machine gun on an armored vehicle.....I would have had 3 or4 cops sneak up on the boat and toss in tear gas grenades and it would ha been over

[tet68]

90 degrees???