Deja Vu For Boston
Shelby Golonka
April 16,2014
Boston- Kevin Edson was arrested Tuesday after the marathon when bystanders told an officer they saw him acting weird, walking barefoot in the middle of the street, and wearing all black.
"All of a sudden you hear this guy go, 'Boston Strong, Boston Strong,'" a photographer told MyFoxBoston.com. "So I turned around, he's right next to me walking by, and there's two Boston cops standing on the corner ... so they turn around, they caught wind of it, and they go 'Hey, you come here.' And he goes 'Get away from me.' So another cop came around him, grabbed him, started struggling with him over the backpack, they pulled the bag off him and then they tackled him and took him down," he said.
Boston Police issued an all-clear for an area of Boylston Street near the finish line shortly after 10:30 p.m. Tuesday after two backpacks were detonated by a bomb squad as a precautionary measure. Officers determined the backpack contained a rice cooker and it had been left behind by a media outlet. It was not dangerous, but it was destroyed.
The mother of the suspect told police that her son suffers from bipolar disorder and did not mean any harm but Police Chief Halstead declared that, “the safety of the public [was] the utmost responsibility.”
April 16,2014
Boston- Kevin Edson was arrested Tuesday after the marathon when bystanders told an officer they saw him acting weird, walking barefoot in the middle of the street, and wearing all black.
"All of a sudden you hear this guy go, 'Boston Strong, Boston Strong,'" a photographer told MyFoxBoston.com. "So I turned around, he's right next to me walking by, and there's two Boston cops standing on the corner ... so they turn around, they caught wind of it, and they go 'Hey, you come here.' And he goes 'Get away from me.' So another cop came around him, grabbed him, started struggling with him over the backpack, they pulled the bag off him and then they tackled him and took him down," he said.
Boston Police issued an all-clear for an area of Boylston Street near the finish line shortly after 10:30 p.m. Tuesday after two backpacks were detonated by a bomb squad as a precautionary measure. Officers determined the backpack contained a rice cooker and it had been left behind by a media outlet. It was not dangerous, but it was destroyed.
The mother of the suspect told police that her son suffers from bipolar disorder and did not mean any harm but Police Chief Halstead declared that, “the safety of the public [was] the utmost responsibility.”