Currently, Tsarnaev is not in good shape and lost a lot of blood, explained CBS News correspondent John Miller. The suspect has a bullet wound to what appears to be the back of his neck and another to his leg. But it's bullet wound to the neck that is actually pretty intriguing to investigators.
Of course, he and his brother were in a big shoot-out," said Miller. "But [investigators are] saying that wound to the back of the neck is very possibly a suicide attempt. They say it appears from the wound that he might have stuck a gun in his mouth, and fired and actually just went out the back of his neck without killing him. That's one of the reasons he's unable to communicate, but he can understand what they're saying. And they believe there will be a point where he will be able to talk to him.
As for what investigators hope to learn when Tsarnaev is able to recover and communicate with them, Miller said it will be to know three primary things: 'Did you do this alone? Is there anyone else out there? Is there another plot?'
One can hear sounds of the gun battle that, it is said, lasted for hours, on the video located at the link here.
The video here was taken via a police helicopter and shows Tsarnaev in the same position in the boat throughout the ordeal (laying down flat on the side of the boat that happened to be facing away from the police) yet somehow he apparently managed to engage in an hour long firefight with police...
Even more curious is the statement quoted in Miller's report above: "They (FBI) say it appears from the wound that he might have stuck a gun in his mouth and fired and actually just went out the back of his neck without killing him. That's one of the reasons he's unable to communicate.''
So - you are to believe Tsarnaev, already bleeding and injured before police were called (the boat owner, it is said, saw blood outside his boat and that piqued his curiosity) - then engaged police in an hour long shootout while laying prone in the boat - and then exited the boat under his own power without first being handcuffed and stripped of weapons....
1) I don't believe for a second the police and FBI and Homeland Security agents on the scene would have simply allowed this murdering terrorist, the most wanted man in America, the freedom to stand up and walk himself out of the boat.
2) I find it stretches credulity to think a gravely injured and exhausted Tsarnaev managed to climb out of that boat under his own power and then, moments later, looked like this:
and this:
Governor Duval Patrick says: "I hope he survives because we have a million questions."
Yes, gov, we do have a million questions.
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