TORONTO – “I thought it was just a robbery, you know?” said the man whose hijacked car became a further vehicle of destruction for two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings last month.
In an interview with CBS News, “Danny”, described by CBS’ Jon Miller as a 26-year-old Chinese entrepreneur, described how he came face-to-face with Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev during their alleged terror spree.
“You know I am serious. Don’t be stupid,” he recalled Tamerlan saying as he brandished a gun and commandeered his vehicle.
Danny said the brothers spoke in Russian as they loaded bombs and weapons into Danny’s brand-new Mercedes, although he was able to make out one word.
“Manhattan.”
He said that it seemed as though the two were planning to travel to New York, as they asked him “a lot of questions.”
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The situation became even more tense when Danny’s roommate called his cellphone, asking why he wasn’t home.
Danny said Tamerlan told him to answer the phone, but warned,”If you speak one word in Chinese I will kill you right now.”
Danny made his escape while the brothers stopped at a gas station.
When Dzhokar went in to the store and Tamerlan was distracted with the GPS, Danny fled across the street to another station.
He told the clerk to call 9-1-1.
Danny refuted Miller’s claims that his actions, which put police on the suspects’ trail, made him a hero.
He said that it was the police that were the real heroes.
“They exchanged gunfire with those bad guys. I think they are the heroes.”
With files from CBS News
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