Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 16m 16 minutes ago
Bombing survivor Steve Woolfenden is called to the stand.
#Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 15m 15 minutes ago
Woolfenden is a cancer biologist who moved here from Michigan. He & his wife Amber have a 5yo son Leo @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 14m 14 minutes ago
Woolfenden & his then 3yo son went to the marathon to watch his wife Amber running it @NECN #Tsarnaev
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 15m 15 minutes ago
Woolfenden lost his leg. His son Leo was injured. He was 3 at the time.
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 16m 16 minutes ago
Woolfenden and his son Leo were at the marathon to cheer on his wife, Leo's mom, who was running the race.
#Tsarnaev
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 15m 15 minutes ago
Woolfenden is speaking a soft, measured voice as he recalls getting ready that day, traveling to Boylston Street, Leo in his stroller.
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 14m 14 minutes ago
Woolfenden describes a normal morning getting ready with his son Leo, eating breakfast, brushing teeth @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 15m 15 minutes ago
Woolfenden says he had Leo in a stroller "I'm no longer unfamiliar with Boylston, but at the time I was" @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 14m 14 minutes ago
Woolfenden says he ended up on the wrong side of the street, texted friends, said they would backtrack & see them soon @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 13m 13 minutes ago
Woolfenden: "I sent a text, put the phone in my pocket & proceeded toward the finish line, then the 1st bomb detonated" @NECN #Tsarnaev
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 13m 13 minutes ago
Woolfenden: "I was in shock and disbelief" after the 1st bomb.
He wanted to run away with his son, but the 2nd bomb went off.
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 14m 14 minutes ago
Woolfenden: I was in shock & disbelief then it registered that I needed to get out of there @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 13m 13 minutes ago
Woolfenden: I tried to do a 180 but we didn't get that opportunity @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 13m 13 minutes ago
Woolfenden: "It felt like every part of my body was punched harder than humanly imaginable" @NECN #Tsarnaev
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 13m 13 minutes ago
Woolfenden: I Just remember the intense heat and the feeling that every part of my body was being punched.
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 13m 13 minutes ago
Woolfenden: I thought I was standing, but I was holding onto the stroller. I looked at Leo; he was bleeding from the left side of his head.
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 13m 13 minutes ago
Woolfenden says his 1st instinct was check on Leo "I pulled back the cover...he was bleeding from the left side of his head" @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 13m 13 minutes ago
Woolfenden: "I thought let's get out of here, that's when I discovered my leg had been severed off" @NECN #Tsarnaev
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 13m 13 minutes ago
Woolfenden: I felt Leo's scalp near the bleeding, and I tried to run, but "that's when I discovered my leg had been severed."
#Tsarnaev
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 12m 12 minutes ago
Woolfenden: I looked down and saw my leg sticking out of my boot, but it was no longer connected to my body.
#Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 13m 13 minutes ago
Woolfenden: "I was wearing boots & my left boot was next to my stump" & the bone was sticking out from the boot @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 12m 12 minutes ago
Woolfenden grabbed his belt to tie around his leg, tried to remove Leo from the stroller but his fingers were too numb @NECN #Tsarnaev
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 12m 12 minutes ago
Woolfenden: I took off my belt and tried to put a tourniquet on myself. I tried to get Leo out to comfort him, but my fingers were too numb.
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 12m 12 minutes ago
Woolfenden: I couldn't get my hands to undo Leo's buckle
"It smelled like burning hair, sulfur"
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 12m 12 minutes ago
Woolfenden: it smelled like burning hair, blood, sulfer, it smelled terrible @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 12m 12 minutes ago
Woolfenden: "Leo was crying & screaming uncontrollably, he was screaming Mommy, Daddy, Mommy, Daddy, Mommy Daddy!" @NECN #Tsarnaev
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 12m 12 minutes ago
Leo was crying uncontrollably: "mommy daddy mommy daddy mommy daddy!"
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 11m 11 minutes ago
Woolfenden said someone came over & put a second tourniquet on his leg & grabbed his son @NECN #Tsarnaev
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 12m 12 minutes ago
A stranger runs up, puts a second tourniquet on Woolfenden, and then runs off with Leo to get him help.
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 12m 12 minutes ago
Woolfenden: I was terrified I was never going to see my son again.#Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 12m 12 minutes ago
Woolfenden: "I was completely terrified because I didn't know if I was ever going to see my son again." @NECN #Tsarnaev
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 11m 11 minutes ago
Woolfenden: the good samaritan eventually runs back, with Leo.
"I was just lying on the cement, terrified."
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 10m 10 minutes ago
Woolfenden: "I was lying on the cement, terrified" says someone came up to him & said "you're going to f-ing to make it" @NECN #Tsarnaev
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 13m 13 minutes ago
Someone ran up to me and kept saying, "You're going to fu**ing make it, you're going to fu**ing make it!"
I didn't believe them.
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 13m 13 minutes ago
Woolfenden said he wasn't sure if he believed the man that he would make it @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 12m 12 minutes ago
The jury again sees the photo of Leo being carried away by Officer Barrett, blood on his head, terror in his face @NECN #Tsarnaev
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 13m 13 minutes ago
At some point, Leo is handed off to a police officer; it's the officer we heard from during 1st phase.
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 13m 13 minutes ago
Woolfenden: I felt hands on my body, being placed into ambulance. I felt numb and I felt pain at the same time.
#Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 13m 13 minutes ago
Woolfenden: "my body felt numb but at the same time I felt pain throughout my entire body, I felt hot, cold" @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 12m 12 minutes ago
Woolfenden was in an ambulance with Gina DiMartino, "she was screaming in pain, she was in intense pain" @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 12m 12 minutes ago
Woolfenden: "I turned to her & asked her to give me her hand" @NECN #Tsarnaev
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 12m 12 minutes ago
Woolfenden ends up in ambulance with another victim, Gina DiMartino; she was screaming in pain; I took her hand.
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 11m 11 minutes ago
Woolfenden: I get to hospital, and the first nurse I see, I grabbed. I said I need to find my son Leo, you have to help me.
"OK."
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 12m 12 minutes ago
Woolfenden said to a nurse at the hospital he had no idea where his son was "you have to help me find him" @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 12m 12 minutes ago
Woolfenden says at the hospital, "I recall screams, just screams, people in pain, I was screaming as well" @NECN #Tsarnaev
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 12m 12 minutes ago
"I recall screams, just screams," once I got to the hospital. "I was screaming as well."
#Tsarnaev
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 10m 10 minutes ago
Woolfenden: I didn't see Leo before I went into surgery, but my wife was able to find me. She told me Leo was at Children's and was alive.
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 10m 10 minutes ago
Woolfenden says while being moved he heard his wife's voice, she said "Leo is at Children's Hospital, he's ok, he's alive" @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 9m 9 minutes ago
Woolfenden says when he woke up his wife's former boss & supervisor were there with him, his wife w/their son at Childrens @NECN #Tsarnaev
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 10m 10 minutes ago
Woolfenden went under on Monday night; he woke up Wednesday.
"I found out that I had lost my left leg below the knee."
#Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 9m 9 minutes ago
Woolfenden says Leo had a skull fracture & laceration, minor burns, they were reunited 3 days later @NECN #Tsarnaev
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 9m 9 minutes ago
Leo was hospitalized until Thursday evening; his head was cut, skull fractured, left eardrum perforated, minor burns.
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 8m 8 minutes ago
Woolfenden had injuries to his right leg as well; his right ear drum was perforated too. Burns as well.
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 8m 8 minutes ago
Woolfenden says his left leg had been amputated & his right leg was badly cut up by shrapnel, right eardrum perforated @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 7m 7 minutes ago
Woolfenden says he had burn marks all over his body, discharged from BMC the following Monday, went to Spaulding for 13 days @NECN #Tsarnaev
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 7m 7 minutes ago
He was hospitalized about a week; then moved to Spaulding for rehab for 13 more days.
He has a prosthetic leg now
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 7m 7 minutes ago
Woolfenden says he is wearing his prosthetic leg to court today. @NECN #Tsarnaev
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 6m 6 minutes ago
Woolfenden and Leo are visible in the Forum surveillance video we have seen, and will watch once more.
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 6m 6 minutes ago
Woolfenden now identifies himself in the Forum video @NECN #Tsarnaev
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 6m 6 minutes ago
Woolfenden crossed paths with #Tsarnaev in the video; he says he doesn't recall seeing him that day
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 5m 5 minutes ago
Woolfenden says he didn't notice #Tsarnaev that day, he was walking past him in opposite direction @NECN
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 5m 5 minutes ago
Woolfenden sees video of #Tsarnaev still closer to him, after 1st blast, and Leo right there in front of him in a stroller.
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 5m 5 minutes ago
Woolfenden said he tried to go in the opposite direction but couldn't spin around Leo's stroller fast enough @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 3m 3 minutes ago
Woolfenden explains to the jury he was checking on his son & then tried to grab his blanket to cover his leg @NECN #Tsarnaev
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 4m 4 minutes ago
Post-blast, we can see the front wheel of Leo's jogging stroller. Woolfenden is on the ground behind it.
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 4m 4 minutes ago
We watch him struggle to help Leo - and just feet away, it's the Richard family, unsure what to do with Jane, Martin.
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 3m 3 minutes ago
This video is awful, every time we see it.
Each time we watch, you learn someone else's story.
And now it's all of them at once.
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 3m 3 minutes ago
Woolfenden explains how in the video he's reaching for Leo, trying to get to him thru the back of the stroller.
#Tsarnaev
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 1m 1 minute ago
In another photo, taken from across the street the next day, we see Leo's stroller, left among the debris.
Woolfenden circles it.
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 46s 47 seconds ago
"That's the same stroller the man in the white hat walked by" as you pushed it?
"Yes."
#Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 2m 2 minutes ago
Every so often, Woolfenden glances over at #Tsarnaev while he continues answering questions in a soft spoken voice @NECN
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 26s 26 seconds ago
Woolfenden identifies the stroller from a photo of the scene the next morning, a very chaotic scene @NECN #Tsarnaev
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 38s 39 seconds ago
Woolfenden: When I was on the sidewalk, on my right was a little boy and his mother.
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 11s 12 seconds ago
Woolfenden: "I saw Martin's face & I could see a boy who looked like he was fatally injured" @NECN #Tsarnaev
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 5s 6 seconds ago
Woolfenden: It was Denise and Martin Richard.
"I saw Martin's face and I could see... a boy that looked like he was fatally injured."
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 48s 48 seconds ago
Woolfenden: "I saw his eyes were rolling in the back of his head and his mouth was agape."
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 25s 25 seconds ago
"I saw an immense amount of blood. I was really, really terrified."
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 5s 5 seconds ago
Woolfenden on Martin: "His hair was singed, his eyes were rolled back & his mouth was agape" @NECN #Tsarnaev
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 11s 12 seconds ago
"I heard "Please" and "Martin"...many times"
It was Denise; Martin did not respond.
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 31s 31 seconds ago
Woolfenden says he was terrified "I heard 'please!' & 'Martin!' being uttered by Denise Richard, I didn't see any response" @NECN #Tsarnaev
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 54s 54 seconds ago
"I heard "Please" and "Martin"...many times"
It was Denise; Martin did not respond.
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 1m 1 minute ago
Woolfenden: Denise "was just pleading with her son"
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 1m 1 minute ago
"I placed my hand on her back and Denise turned to me for a moment and asked me if I was ok."
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 55s 55 seconds ago
"I said, yes, I'm fine."
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 41s 41 seconds ago
Woolfenden: "I placed my hand on her back & Denise turned to me for a moment & asked if I was ok, I said yes" @NECN #Tsarnaev
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 1m 1 minute ago
She turned back to Martin.
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 29s 30 seconds ago
We now look at the Forum video again, in a zoomed in view.
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 1m 1 minute ago
Woolfenden says Denise turned back to her son, says she was pleading with him to respond @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 6s 6 seconds ago
Woolfenden says Martin was on the opposite side of the stroller, in the video jurors see an arm go up & down @NECN #Tsarnaev
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 35s 36 seconds ago
Martin is on the opposite side of the stroller.
You can see Martin's arms go up and down, just once. Denise is on top of him.
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 16s 17 seconds ago
This is just horrific video, Denise Richard leaning over her son Martin, Woolfenden next to them with Leo in the stroller @NECN #Tsarnaev
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 26s 26 seconds ago
Defense objects and Woolfenden can't testify as to what's happening, but we see it. It appears to be Martin Richard reaching for his mom.
:anguish::anguish::anguish:
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 3m 3 minutes ago
Denise puts her hands on her head, in agony.
Woolfenden is done; no cross.
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 3m 3 minutes ago
BREAKING: the government rests its case in chief for the penalty phase of the trial @NECN #Tsarnaev
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 3m 3 minutes ago
That ends the government's case.
#Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo retweeted
U.S. Attorney MA @DMAnews1 · 4m 4 minutes ago
Government rests in penalty phase of Tsarnaev trial
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 2m 2 minutes ago
The judge excuses the jury for the day & says they will retur
n Monday when the defense will begin with its opening statement @NECN #Tsarnaev
Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ · 3m 3 minutes ago
Judge tells jurors that they are done for the week; defense case will start on Monday.
#Tsarnaev
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