Hero who found America's most wanted WILL get a new boat: Donations flood in for man who stumbled on suspect in his yard
- David Henneberry, a resident of the suburb of Watertown, had been at home under curfew since early hours
- At 5.30pm went outside for cigarette and noticed tarpaulin on his 24ft pleasure cruiser had been disturbed
- Saw blood on it and thought he could see a body underneath, went inside and called police
- Hundreds of police officers, FBI and SWAT teams descended on quiet neighborhood riddling countless holes in his beloved boat
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Donations toward buying Watertown hero David Henneberry a new boat are already pouring in from around the country.
The 66-year-old man who came face-to-face with suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hiding inside his boat is the man credited for ending a nightmarish manhunt for the most wanted man in America.
The after effect was a sacrifice, however was countless holes in his boat that neighbors would describe as his 'baby.'
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Dramatic ending: An aerial view over David Henneberry's home in Watertown, Massachusetts reveals his covered boat that would become the hideout by Boston bombing suspect #2, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19
'That boat's his baby. He takes care of it like you wouldn't believe. And they told him it's all shot up,' Henneberry's friend and neighbor George Pizzuto told ABC News. 'He's going to be heartbroken.'
Doborah Newberry of Orlando Florida, so moved by Mr Henneberry's heroism and sacrifice, says she's already mailed a $25 check to Mr Henneberry's home marked, 'towards a new boat.'
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Share'I just want him to know that people care about him because I know he's probably the guy that would say, "Well, that's okay," Newberry, 66, told ABC. 'But I just would like him to know that we're all thinking about him and appreciate his spirit.'
She's not alone.
Jacksonville attorney John Phillips says he also plans to send Mr Henneberry a check for $1,000 toward a new boat.
'[The boat] is fairly insignificant in the grand scheme of things, but that's what's significant to him,' Phillips told ABCNews.com. 'If that's what the guy's passion is, I have no problem whatsoever chipping in and helping out.'
This image obtained April 19, 2013 courtesy CBS News shows Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing who was captured Friday night, April 19, 2013 after he was found hiding in a boat in a Boston suburb
He suspects the boat, believed to be a 22-foot Seahawk cruiser featuring a fiberglass hull that retails for around $50,000, will be held as evidence for a while anyway leaving Mr Henneberry well beyond empty handed.
Not that he thinks he'd want that boat back.
'He just had his boat shot up and had a terrorist live in it for a day,' Mr Phillips said. 'If the dude wants an upgraded boat, let's get the guy a boat without terrorist blood in it.'
If that weren’t enough, Watertown Police Chief Edward Deveau adds that someone in Detroit, Michigan has emailed asking to fully replace Mr Henneberry's boat as well.
'It's just incredible,' Deveau said of the outpouring of support which comes toward his police department as well. ‘I'm getting emails and things from all over the world.’
Like thousands of other residents of Watertown, a sleepy middle-class suburb of Boston, Mr Henneberry had been cooped up in his home, at 67 Franklin Street, since police imposed a curfew in the early hours of Friday.
The curfew followed a 2am gun battle just a few streets away that left Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, dead and his 19-year-old brother Dzhokhar on the run.
A thousand police, SWAT teams, dog units and explosive experts had been going door-to-door as frightened residents were ordered to shelter inside their homes.
But by 5.30pm, Dzhokhar still hadn’t been found and the curfew was lifted.
Hero: David Henneberry had no idea he would find America's most wanted man hiding in his boat
Despite cool temperatures and intermittent rain, residents – many of whom had been locked inside their homes all day – began emerging on to the streets. Some jogged, others walked their dogs while most stood chatting to neighbours.
Mr Henneberry, whose ‘passion’ is his 24-ft white fibreglass Seahawk pleasure cruiser, strolled into his garden at 6.05pm – and immediately noticed the tarpaulin covering his prized boat had been disturbed.
Neighbour George Pizzuto said: ‘He got his ladder and put it up against the side of the boat and climbed up. He saw blood on it and what he thought was a body lying at the back. He immediately ran inside and called the police.
‘David was totally distraught and in shock. That boat’s his baby. He takes care of it like you won’t believe.’
Robert Duffy, Mr Henneberry’s stepson, added: ‘As soon as he saw the tarp on the boat he knew something wasn’t right. It was flapping in the wind and, when he got the ladder he realised one of the straps had been cut – not chafed, or unhooked but cut.'
‘He stuck his head under it and noticed a pool of blood and what he thought was a man’s leg. He saw someone crumpled up in a ball.’
Minutes later and all hell broke loose as around 300 police officers, FBI and SWAT teams descended on the quiet neighbourhood.
At 6.15pm police had cordoned off a three-block, area, erecting barricades and sending sharpshooters to ‘cover’ street corners and take positions on rooftops. A police helicopter with heat sensors flew over the garden to verify there was a body inside the boat.
Assisted: This striking picture shows Dzhokhar Tsarnaev lying on the ground of the property of 67 Franklin Street in Watertown after authorities apprehended him. He had to have medical assistance to breathe
Seriously Injured: This still frame from video shows Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev visible through an ambulance after he was captured in Watertown, on Friday, April 19, 2013
Neighbors use cameras to record images of the boat (left) at 67 Franklin St. where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, was hiding inside in Watertown, Massachusetts on Friday as a SWAT member stands guard (right)
Just before 7pm, an FBI negotiating team rushed past the barricades at high speed. A police spokesman later said: ‘They were on stand-by all day to talk to the suspect. We always wanted to bring him out alive if possible.’
At 7.25pm there was a burst of gunfire as Dzhokhar and police exchanged more than 40 shots, quickly followed by a series of bangs as flash bombs were thrown into the boat to ‘smoke him out’.
A bomb squad robot was also sent in to peel back the tarpaulin, while FBI negotiators using megaphones attempted to talk Dzhokhar down. Police footage later showed the suspect surrendering.
A source said: ‘The suspect waved his arms and officers made him lift up his shirt and lower his trousers to show he had no explosives strapped to his body. There was a very genuine fear that he might be wearing a suicide vest.’
AT 8.43pm, a SWAT team stormed in, dragging Dzhokhar out and to the ground. Watertown police chief Edward Deveau said that, at that stage, ‘he put up no resistance. He knew it was over.’
In this neighbor's view from across the street, law enforcement agents look around the corner of a house where Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was believed to be hiding in Watertown, Massachusetts on Friday
Police officers guard the entrance to Franklin street where there is an active crime scene search for suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, Friday, April 19, 2013, in Watertown
As the news filtered down to the terrified residents, cheers and applause could be heard as a man in the crowd began to chant: ‘USA! USA!’ The massed rank of police were seen grinning and high-fiving each other.
At 8.45pm the tweet that everyone had been waiting for came when the Boston Police Department announced: ‘Suspect in custody.’ They later added: ‘CAPTURED!!! The hunt is over. The search is done. The terror is over. And justice has won. Suspect in custody.’
Shortly afterwards an ambulance was driven away carrying a badly injured Dzhokhar to the Beth Israel Medical Center in Boston – the same hospital where surgeons had battled to save his brother.
Tamerlan had suffered multiple injuries, including gunshot wounds and ‘crush wounds’ caused after his brother drove over him during his escape.
Yesterday, one police officer, who declined to be named, told me: ‘It looks like the guy had suffered wounds the night before. Tonight he fired first and officers on the scene returned fire. I heard on the radio that he’s been hit in the neck and leg.’
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April 18 5.30pm - The FBI releases CCTV footage and stills of two suspects from surveillance cameras near the explosion sites filmed shortly before the blasts. FBI agent Richard DesLauriers asks for the public's help in identifying the men who are both wearing baseball caps and carrying backpacks. 'We consider them to be armed and extremely dangerous,' Mr DesLauriers said, warning that they should not be approached.
10.30pm - A campus police officer is shot and killed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, near Boston, after responding to a report of a disturbance.
Shortly afterwards, police get a report of a carjacking nearby. The two men are suspected of killing the MIT police officer, then stealing the car at gunpoint and later releasing its driver unharmed. The suspects threw explosives from the car as police followed it to the Boston suburb of Watertown.
April 19 1am - Witnesses report hearing multiple gunshots and explosions in Watertown. Residents are advised to keep their doors locked and not let anyone in. TV footage shows armed officers surrounding a suspect lying on the ground.
Police later say one of the two suspects in the MIT officer shooting is dead but the other, who is tied to the Boston marathon bombing, remains at large.
Public transport is suspended in the Boston area as the hunt for the remaining suspect continues.
A new photo of him on the loose is released showing him in a grey hoodie sweatshirt at a 7-Eleven store in Cambridge.
5pm - Police admit at a press conference they don't know where 19-year-old Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev is. Authorities lift 'shelter in place' orders and allow residents to venture outside.
5.45pm - David Henneberry finds a body in his boat on Franklin Street in Watertown, less than three quarters of a mile from where Tsarnaev ditched his stolen Mercedes SUV.
6pm - Officers surround Mr Hennerberry's boat and exchange fire with him.
7.05pm - Flash grenades are reportedly tossed into the boat to stun Tsarnaev.
8.43pm - Tsarnaev surrenders and it taken into custody. He is rushed to the hospital by ambulance
At 9.30pm, as the police and FBI began to leave, a party atmosphere descended on the town. Hundreds lined the main route to applaud officers as they drove away. Spontaneous celebrations also broke out throughout the night, including in Harvard Square, centrepiece of the Ivy League university, in neighbouring Cambridge.
One of those celebrating, retired businessman David Holway, spoke of Krystle Campbell, one of the three people killed in Monday’s Boston Marathon bombings.
‘She worked at a place called the Summer Shack and I knew her well,’ he said. ‘She was full of life, a real fire-cracker. She had everything to live for. This is a small community and everyone knows everyone.
‘It’s been like living in an episode of the TV show 24. So much has happened in such a short period. If you wrote this in a Hollywood script no one would believe it. The police did a magnificent job.’
Sarah Baker, who lives a street away from where Dzhokhar was discovered, said: ‘Things like this don’t happen in Watertown. It was like being in a disaster movie. It’s surreal.’
Another resident Neal Fay said: ‘We’ve had enough drama and excitement to last a lifetime. Everyone here is very grateful it’s over but now we want our quiet town to get back to normal.’
Applause: A police officer breaks into a smile as the crowd applaud him on the news of the arrest of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, Friday, April 19, 2013, in Boston
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Defiant: Joseph Eli Libby, 20, of Boston, carries a flag near a makeshift memorial on Boylston Street, near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, Friday, April 19, 2013, in Boston
High Five Flying Flag: A policeman (left) celebrates with a woman after one of the Boston bombers was apprehended on Friday while Frank McGillin, who has ran three Boston Marathons, waves a U.S. flag
Student: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (left) graduated from his Cambridge high school and was in college studying medicine. He is on the run after his brother Tamerlan (right) was killed after they were named terror suspects
Clearer shot: David Green, 49, captured this picture with his iPhone likely of the man identified by the FBI as Suspect Number Two, as Green faced east on the corner of Fairfield and Boylston Streets, shortly after the Boston Marathon blasts
Comparison: Suspect Number Two is seen in surveillance footage from the FBI released on Thursday (left). The man closely resembling that suspect is seen (right) in a clearer image released by a man who had competed in the Boston Marathon and captured the picture as he ran toward the site of the blast
This combination of Associated Press file images released by the FBI on Thursday show two images taken from surveillance video of what the FBI are calling suspect number 1, (left), in black cap,and suspect number 2, (right), in a white cap
Horrific Scene: The aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing on Monday evening in the city
Injured people and debris lie on the sidewalk near the Boston Marathon finish line following an explosion in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013
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