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The officers are on the side of the dead end with no outlet. police decide its too risky for ems to cross in front of colliers home with the shooter still active. as slocumb moans in pain, one of the residents who helped carry him to safety, david lemke, officers a prayer. >> dear heavenly father, please bless this man and heal him. hes a police officer trying to do good. please god, please. help this man. i ask in your name, jesus, amen. >> mcfarland, too, does his best to reassure his partner....

Injury. as he provides cover, the wounded officer tries to run across the street. but slocumb veers to the right, losing his balance and collapsing into a chain link fence. mcfarland, knowing every second counts, runs across the street to get to his partner, putting himself directly in the cross hairs of colliers rifle. >> i might get shot but its a chance ive got to take. >> he must holster his gun in order to pick up the officer, leaving the rookie officer defenseless. >> he proceeded to do wh...

Ems to cross in front of colliers home with the shooter still active. as slocumb moans in pain, one of the residents who helped carry him to safety, david lemke, offers a prayer. >> dear heavenly father, please bless this man and heal him. hes a police officer trying to do good. please god, please. help this man. i ask in your name, jesus, amen. >> mcfarland, too, does his best to reassure his partner. >> weve got people on the way for you, jared. weve got medics on the way. medics are on the wa...

>> i saw officers had their guns drawn. i pulled up on the curb, got the camera out and moments after all hell broke loose. >> collier is shooting at the officers in the street. rookie officer tim mcfarland seen in the foreground uses gregs car for cover. >> i see an officer across the street from me. i zoom in on him and i think im going to get a shot of him with his gun drawn, and i see he has his hands up to his throat and he has blood coming down his hands. >> its mcfarlands partner officer ...

Count 6. 16 17 and 18 youve mentioned some of the testimony that the jury has seen in this particular case, they saw the actual video from the mit prison campus, two figures as prosecutors dzhokhar tsarnaev going up to that police cruiser and then moving away in the dark of night. some of the most interesting testimony came from the student that -- when someone came up and stood up quickly out of that cruiser, sort of surprised by the bike rider as he went by. he made eye contact with that indiv...

How it was in the trial. they really went in a timeline of the event. beginning with the carnage of the boston marathon finish line and then the man hunt, when they went up to the police cruiser and they tried to get officer colliers gun. and he testified that tamerlan held that gun to his head multiple times. and then count 20, this is the possession charge, as i mentioned, one charge referring back to another charge. this regards specifically that ruger .9 mill meeter gun. now were looking at ...

Jurors listened to police transmissions and watched this video never seen by the public of how if the want down. watch as two figures allegedly, the tsaranevs walk through the campus they approach colliers car from behind. prosecutors stay they shot the 27-year-old officer multiple times in the head because they wanted his gun. as this image shows they couldnt get the blood soaked firearm out of the holster. >> hours earlier, the fbi held a news conference and showed the world these images. sayi...

Didnt respond and the sergeant was sent to the scene discovering him slumped over. >> oh, my goodness. all units respond. officer down, officer down. all units. get me. loekdz. officer down. >> that was the sergeant calling for help. and an ambulance arrived but colliers life could not be saved, jon. >> the young kidnapping vehicle as well testified today? >> absolutely. riveting testimony. he talked about how terrifying the ordeal. tamerlan came up to the the window and told him he had done the...

Police still gathering evidence as the search continues for that shooter. >> this latest protest comes after the police chief thomas jackson handed in his resignation just wednesday, just yesterday. he is one of six who were either fired or who resigned in the past week after a pattern of discrimination was discovered by the department of justice. that discrimination happening within the city there. >> a dramatic shift in the boston marathon bombing trial. the jury seeing unreleased surveillance...

Chase and a carjacking that followed. so were expecting testimony to finish this morning about officer colliers death and then theyll go into the testimony and evidence surrounding that carjacking. next week there is no court tomorrow, but next week they expect it to start the testimony into that shooting the showdown in watertown, where tamerlan tsarnaev was ultimately killed in a shoot-out with police and many hours later they found dzhokhar, his brother hiding in that boat. we also mentioned ...