A woman who lost her legs in the Boston Marathon bombing is the first witness to testify in the penalty phase of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s trial.
Celeste Corcoran on Tuesday recalled being thrown into the air and landing hard on the sidewalk after the first bomb exploded.
She says: “I remember hearing just blood-curdling screams.” She says the pain was so great that she felt like she wanted to die, but she quickly regained her resolve to live when she thought of her family.
Corcoran says she learned only after her legs were amputated that her 17-year-old daughter, Sydney, had also been seriously hurt and almost bled to death. The mother and daughter shared a hospital room for weeks, then had adjoining rooms at a rehabilitation hospital.
