Visitors, locals reflect on Boston attack, suspect's capture

  • 11 years ago
ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)

an a week after two explosions at the Boston Marathon claimed three lives and injured 176, visitors to a makeshift memorial near the finish line are still trying to comprehend the worst such attack on U.S. soil since September 11, 2001.

"I'm from Massachusetts, and I have strong ties to this area, and I was just shocked," said Scott Worthington.

"It was like, you couldn't turn away from the media coverage, you just really couldn't. You couldn't believe that something like this would happen to the city of Boston."

The bombs in Boston killed an 8-year-old boy, Martin Richard; a 29-year-old woman, Krystle Campbell; and a Boston University graduate student and Chinese citizen, Lu Lingzi.

"We feel very, very bad," said memorial visitor Ruth Pan.

"I think all Chinese feel very bad about that because she comes to study, comes to America to study. I think their family will be very very sad, so...I don't know what to say. I w

Recommended