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 Tsarnaev, 21, is charged with killing three people and injuring
264 with a pair of homemade bombs on April 15, 2013, and with
fatally shooting a university police officer three days later.
FBI Special Agent Brian Corcoran testified on Wednesday that a
pressure-cooker bomb became embedded in a car parked on a Watertown,
Massachusetts, street when Tsarnaev and his older brother, Tamerlan,
threw explosives at police officers during a gunfight as the duo
tried to flee the city on April 19, 2013.
"It's just some person's Honda, parked in the driveway?" Assistant
U.S. Attorney William Weinreb, asked of the car hit by the bomb.
 "It is," said Corcoran, who is expected to return to the witness
stand on Thursday.
The gunfight ended when Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hopped into a black
Mercedes and attempted to run over three police officers who were
trying to arrest Tamerlan. The officers jumped out of the way but
Dzhokhar ran over his brother, who was briefly caught up in the
vehicle's wheels and dragged.
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Tsarnaev's lawyers opened the trial early this month by bluntly
admitting he carried out the bombing and shooting. Their goal is to
convince the jury that the plot was driven by his 26-year-old
brother, Tamerlan, with Dzhokhar a junior partner in the scheme.
Proving that point could persuade the jury to sentence the younger
brother to life in prison without possibility of parole, rather than
death.
The bombing killed restaurant manager Krystle Campbell, 29, graduate
student Lingzi Lu, 23, and 8-year-old Martin Richard. Massachusetts
Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier, 27, was shot
dead three days later.
(Reporting by Elizabeth Barber; Editing by Scott Malone and James
Dalgleish)
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