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A City in Shock | National Geographic


we just didn’t know how many terrorists
we had out there so a slow methodical
search for evidence was underway I think
we all realized we had a job to do and
that was to get whoever was responsible
for blowing up a city the Aurora hands
and knees were covering physical
evidence and we’d come across a hand or
a or a lake and that was really tragic
fellow-citizens legs and arms and hands
you know I can train you for that at
least three people have died including
an eight-year-old boy more than a
hundred 40 other people there were two
bodies that were left at the scene we
had a young boy later determined to be
about eight years old and a young woman
about 21 or 22 so one of my officers
went into the restaurant and took
tablecloths off the restaurant tables
and brought them out and finally respect
for the bodies with tablecloths over the
kids
most of the men mayor fathers and they
could only empathize with the victims
parents and siblings so the decision was
made that we would just stand by the
guide ‘less taking turns to stand vigil
all of these two young people until they
could be properly removed
I remember the news being very specific
that the bomb had gone off in front of
marathon sports looking at my phone I
finally put it together literally her
text message was I am in front of
marathon sports
I distinctly remember realizing that she
probably was killed in the blast
and I think at that point I really was
taken back that I had just met this girl
and that she had just been taken from my
life everybody’s in shock you could see
the terror that was created here in the
city by this bomb I was haunted by the
possibility the more bombs could go on
that was a potential possibility until
we arrested the subjects we didn’t know
who the perpetrators were what their
reasons were no one had taken
responsibility frankly we didn’t know
whether it was over what’s next you know
what’s next for Boston and what’s next
for somewhere else in the country I mean
it was unknown you can do that in the
Boston Marathon you can do
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