The driver of a Mercedes SUV carjacked by the Boston bombers, as they evaded police last week, has spoken publicly about his ordeal for the first time.
The victim - a 26-year-old Chinese entrepreneur - was interviewed by the Boston Globe newspaper.
He was identified only as Danny and told the paper he did not want his real name to be used.
"I don't want to be a famous person talking on the TV," he said. "I don't feel like a hero. I was trying to save myself."
His nightmare encounter with the Tsarnaev brothers began at around 11pm last Thursday with the older of the two, Tamerlan, rapping on the car window.
As Danny opened it, the armed man reached inside and warned: "Don't be stupid".
Boston bomb suspects Tamerlan Tsarnaev (L) and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Tamerlan, 26, told him he was responsible for the marathon bombings and that he had just killed a police officer in Cambridge.
He climbed into the Mercedes and ordered him to drive to another neighbourhood, where they met up with his brother, 19-year-old Dzhokhar.
Throughout the harrowing 90-minute journey, Danny said the Tsarnaev brothers talked about the bombings but also mundane things like iPhones, girls, and whether people listened to compact discs anymore.
He said they also talked about going to New York, but he was unable to make out what they were intending to do.
US intelligence sources now believe the brothers could have been planning an atrocity in Times Square.
"Death is so close to me," Danny recalled thinking. "I have a lot of dreams that haven't come true yet."
He thought of trying to escape more than once, but his best chance came when they were forced to pull into a service station to get fuel.
"I was thinking I must do two things: unfasten my seatbelt and open the door and jump out as quick as I can," Danny said.
"If I didn't make it, he would kill me right out, he would kill me right away."
He seized the moment and managed to make it to the safety of another service station.
He spent the rest of the night filling in police and FBI agents with as much detail as he could remember.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the boat in a Boston back garden That included the key fact that the SUV the Tsarnaev brothers had taken off in was equipped with two trackers. One was in Danny's iPhone and the other was part of a Mercedes two-way satellite device.
The car was soon cornered in the Watertown district. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed during a shootout with police.
His younger brother escaped but was found hours later hiding in a boat in a nearby street.
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