Wednesday, March 11 2015 10:07 PM EDT2015-03-12 02:07:42 GMT
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Jurors in the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have been shown the tattered pieces of the backpack he used to carry a bomb in the deadly 2013 attack. An FBI agent held up pieces of the black and white backpack Wednesday.
Jurors in the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have been shown the tattered pieces of the backpack he used to carry a bomb in the deadly 2013 attack. An FBI agent held up pieces of the black and white backpack Wednesday.
By Denise Lavoie, AP Legal Affairs Writer
BOSTON (AP) - The chief of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Police Department has testified that he told Officer Sean Collier to "be safe" about an hour before prosecutors say he was killed by the Boston Marathon bombers.
John DiFava testified Wednesday about his last words to Collier in the federal death penalty trial of bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. DiFava says he briefly spoke to Collier when he saw him in his cruiser the night he was killed.
Prosecutors say Tsarnaev and his brother, Tamerlan, shot Collier while trying to steal his gun during a getaway attempt hours after the FBI publicly released images of them as suspects in the bombings.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's lawyer told the jury that Tamerlan shot Collier.
More testimony on Collier's death is expected Wednesday afternoon.
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