Government prosecutors in Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's capital murder trial continued to bring victims of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing before the jury Monday morning, the first a nurse who was escorted into the courtroom in a wheelchair with her service dog beside her.
Jessica Kensky, originally from Sacramento, worked her last shift at Massachusetts General Hospital on April 14, 2013, caring for cancer patients.
The next afternoon she and her husband were watching the marathon when two explosions ripped through the finish line area. She lost her left leg below the knee that day; the second was amputated this year on Jan. 21 because of further complications.
She and her husband, Patrick, were at the finish line for about 20 minutes; she stood on her tip-toes for a better view. "I remember being happy," she said. "I remember feeling the sun on my face. I remember feeling very free."
Then the bombs exploded. "I don't remember feeling anything. I just felt like I was on a rocket."
Being a nurse, she tried to put a tourniquet on her husband's foot; then she realized her back was on fire and from the waist down. She was in shock, but "my body didn't allow me to feel pain. That was later." When the pain did hit, "it was absolutely horrendous."
At a medical tent, "it was terror. Just sheer terror," she said.
Later she was transferred to her husband's hospital, and placed in a bed next to him. He had lost his left leg, and was hoping to save his knee. He also was fighting infections.
The couple later was hospitalized in Baltimore, next to a soldier injured in Iraq. All their injures were comparable. "These were war wounds," she said.
She misses her legs terribly, she said. "I want to paint my toenails. I want to put my feet in the sands. To lose my second leg was devastating."
Prosecutors showed her a photo of the couple in the crowd moments before the bombing; to identify her husband, she drew a squiggly heart around him. Prosecutor Steven D. Mellin called it a "broken heart." Behind them in a black cap is Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the defendant's older brother.
When she was done testifying, court security wheeled her out of the courtroom. She craned her neck and took a long look at Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. He sat between his lawyers, his hand on his cheek, looking away.
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