Carjack victim testifies in Tsarnaev trial

BOSTON (MyFoxBoston.com) - Jurors in the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were shown a dramatic video of a carjacking victim escaping from Tsarnaev and his brother days after the attacks.

Dun Meng said he was "terrified" as Tamerlan Tsarnaev

"The whole world, everybody is looking for them. I can't believe I just met them," Meng, a Chinese national who works as an entrepreneur in Boston, said on the stand Thursday.

On the night of April 18, 2013, less than an hour after the murder of MIT Police Officer Sean Collier, Meng was carjacked in his Mercedes SUV, allegedly by Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

Meng told the jury that he pulled his SUV over to the side of the road in Cambridge to send a text, when Tamerlan Tsarnaev pulled a gun on him, and got in the car.

According to Meng, Tamerlan said "You know I'm serious. So don't be stupid."

Meng said Tamerlan went on to ask him, "Do you know the Boston Marathon explosion? Do you know who did it? I did. And I just killed a policeman."
 
At first, Meng said it was just Tamerlan in the car, but a short time later, a second man, who Meng identified in court as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, got into the backseat, after Meng was forced to pull the SUV over in Watertown and get into the passenger seat. The brothers then transferred some items from the car Dzhokhar was allegedly driving  to the trunk of Meng's Mercedes.

Then, they continued driving.

Meng thought about escape, but felt he could not at that moment, not with both brothers in the car.

"I didn't think about running. Both of them have guns. I don't know if just him [Tamerlan]," Meng said in court Thursday.
"The other [Dzhokhar] is right behind me. Nobody was on the street. No place to run."

In Watertown, Meng said, Dzhokhar took Meng's ATM card, demanded his PIN number, and withdrew $800 from his checking account.

The ATM surveillance camera captured Dzhokhar making the withdrawal.

Meng said Tamerlan next asked how much gas was in the car and if it was enough to go out of state, to New York.

It was not, Meng said, so they went to a gas station, The first gas station was closed, so they tried a Shell station in Cambridge.

When Dzhokhar went inside to pay cash, Meng decided it was time to make his move when he saw Tamerlan preoccupied working his GPS with both hands.

He recalled it was the most horrific moment in his life.

"I count down, one, two, three, four," Meng testified. "I unbuckled seatbelt, open car door successfully. I jump out, dart into street. I could feel he was trying to grab me."

Video surveillance shows Meng runnning for his life from the SUV.

He bolted for a Mobil station across the street. Inside, he pleaded with the clerk to call 911.

Before he finished the call, police were on the scene. The GPS locator in the Mercedes was soon activated.

Testimony for the day ended with a Cambridge police dispatcher testifying about how police tracked the Mercedes  to Dexter Street in Watertown.

The trial will resume on Monday morning at 9 a.m.

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