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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev— Case Archive
locationlocationMIT campuscrime_sceneMIT campusClarence Henniger testified that Officer Sean Collier was parked in the plaza beside the Koch building on the MIT campus around 10:20 p.m. Dun Meng recalled seeing police cars with blue lights entering the campus that night. In closing arguments, prosecutors alleged that the Tsarnaev brothers approached Collier's cruiser in a planned ambush to obtain his service weapon.
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Clarence Henniger testified that Officer Sean Collier was parked in the plaza beside the Koch building on the MIT campus around 10:20 p.m. Dun Meng recalled seeing police cars with blue lights entering the campus that night. In closing arguments, prosecutors alleged that the Tsarnaev brothers approached Collier's cruiser in a planned ambush to obtain his service weapon.

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The campus was the setting of Collier's killing, which prosecutors cited in arguing joint participation and premeditation. Defense counsel stated that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's presence at the shooting would not be contested.

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