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Michelle Hagopian shares story of watching Boston bombing manhunt
KSDK.com (St. Louis, MO)
Apr 28, 2013
Watertown, MA (KSDK) - Michelle Hagopian is a Granite City, Illinois
native who moved to Watertown, Massachusetts for work last year. As an
editor for a newspaper, she's used to getting the scoop on
stories. But for her safety, she had to sit and watch as the manhunt
for the Boston Bombing suspects played out just down the street from
her home.
"That whole day and that whole week was just unbelievable," said
Hagopian. "It's nothing I've ever experienced before."
Hagopian saw police lights as she went to bed around one am on Friday,
April 19th. She woke up five hours later to find an army of police
officers outside her door.
"It turns out that morning they had shot the first suspect. So, I woke
up to a bunch of calls from my parents and concerned people here."
Hagopian later learned the second suspect, Dzhokar Tsarnaev, was still
on the loose just blocks from her home.
"The entire day I was on lockdown for 15 hours. My neighbors, I could
see them from their porches looking out with binoculars and saying
'what's going on?' From my background being a journalism major it was
torture for me watching and not being able to figure out what was
going on."
Hours later, Tsarnaev was captured by police.
"That was right down my street when people were celebrating. Not that
they were celebrating his capture. It was more just the fact that they
were celebrating that these people helped us and saved us and
protected us.
Hagopian says as the investigation plays out, things in Boston have
calmed down. And this tragedy has brought out the best in most people.
"People have asked me, 'Are you back to normal yet?' And I say I don't
even know what that means right now. After that week I just wanted to
hug everybody that I saw because it was just one of those situations."
KSDK.com (St. Louis, MO)
Apr 28, 2013
Watertown, MA (KSDK) - Michelle Hagopian is a Granite City, Illinois
native who moved to Watertown, Massachusetts for work last year. As an
editor for a newspaper, she's used to getting the scoop on
stories. But for her safety, she had to sit and watch as the manhunt
for the Boston Bombing suspects played out just down the street from
her home.
"That whole day and that whole week was just unbelievable," said
Hagopian. "It's nothing I've ever experienced before."
Hagopian saw police lights as she went to bed around one am on Friday,
April 19th. She woke up five hours later to find an army of police
officers outside her door.
"It turns out that morning they had shot the first suspect. So, I woke
up to a bunch of calls from my parents and concerned people here."
Hagopian later learned the second suspect, Dzhokar Tsarnaev, was still
on the loose just blocks from her home.
"The entire day I was on lockdown for 15 hours. My neighbors, I could
see them from their porches looking out with binoculars and saying
'what's going on?' From my background being a journalism major it was
torture for me watching and not being able to figure out what was
going on."
Hours later, Tsarnaev was captured by police.
"That was right down my street when people were celebrating. Not that
they were celebrating his capture. It was more just the fact that they
were celebrating that these people helped us and saved us and
protected us.
Hagopian says as the investigation plays out, things in Boston have
calmed down. And this tragedy has brought out the best in most people.
"People have asked me, 'Are you back to normal yet?' And I say I don't
even know what that means right now. After that week I just wanted to
hug everybody that I saw because it was just one of those situations."