BOSTON (AP) – A woman who lost a leg in the Boston Marathon bombing described feeling as if she were in a horror movie: wounded people all around her, including someone covered with soot, dazed and “walking around like a zombie.”
At the federal death penalty trial of bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Thursday, Roseann Sdoia told how she’d gone to the race as a spectator on April 15, 2013. She saw two flashes of white light at her feet near the finish line, looked down, and for a split second thought to herself: I’m wearing strappy sandals.
Then, sobbing, she told jurors she quickly realized she was looking at her foot dangling from her mangled leg.
“It was almost like I was starring in a horror movie, as everybody else was around me,” she said.
Sdoia walked to the witness stand on an artificial leg, plainly visible below the hemline of her skirt.