Day 2 of the Boston Marathon bombing trial put two of the more notable victims before the jury.
Among the witnesses testifying Thursday were Bill Richard, whose 8-year-old son Martin was one of three people killed in the April 15, 2013 blast; and Jeff Bauman, who lost both legs that day.
Defendant Dzhokhar Tsarnaev looked on as those two and others who were at the scene recounted that day for the jury. Trial is being conducted in U.S. District Court in Boston.
Tsarnaev, 21, faces 30 charges, 17 of which carry the possibility of the death penalty. The bombing was the worst terrorist act in the United States since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Richard's testimony was perhaps the most gut-wrenching. He was standing behind a barrier along Boylston Street with wife Denise and children Martin, Henry and Jane. Richard heard the first explosion go off near the finish line and told his wife the family should move.
That's when the second bomb went off, behind where the family was standing. Bill Richard said he was "blown into the street" and left with shrapnel wounds, burns and perforated eardrums.
Other members of his family were in far worse shape.
As his wife knelt over Martin, Bill and Henry, 11, tried to find Jane. Henry finally saw his 6-year-old sister and pointed her out. As Bill walked toward her, he testified, "She tried to get up and she fell."
"It was then that I noticed her leg and I picked her up…She didn't have it. It was blown off." #Tsarnaev
— Kevin Cullen (@GlobeCullen) March 5, 2015
Bill Richard got medical attention for Jane and went back toward his wife and Martin. He covered Henry's eyes and sat him down on the side of the street with a stranger before getting his first good look at Martin.
"When I saw Martin's condition I knew he wasn't going to make it. It was then I saw my son alive, barely, for the last time."#Tsarnaev
— Laurel J. Sweet (@Laurel_Sweet) March 5, 2015
Denise Richard was blinded in one eye, which was impaled by a piece of shrapnel that doctors couldn't remove. Jane's left leg was amputated below the knee. Henry was left with cuts, scrapes and temporary hearing loss.
Earlier in the day, Bauman testified about events that led to both his legs being amputated.
He had gone to Boylston Street to watch his then-girlfriend Erin, who he has since married, finish the race. He took the stand Thursday wearing shorts, with both of his prosthetic legs exposed, explaining that he often trips when he tries to wear pants.
As Bauman settled into the crowd near the finish line, a young man with a backpack wearing a black baseball cap bumped into him, and Bauman immediately found him suspicious, saying, "He was alone ... wasn't watching the race."
After the explosion left Bauman with his legs blown apart, he assumed he would die and said he made peace with himself at that point. Once he got to a hospital, though, he believed he would survive.
He couldn't speak because he had tubes in his throat, but he was certain the man he had seen was responsible for the bombing. A friend, John Sullivan, came to visit him in the hospital, and Bauman wrote a message on a pad.
He told a friend in the hospital, "I saw the kid....I knew who did it." Then he talked to police.
— Patricia Wen (@globepatty) March 5, 2015
Bauman later identified Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Dzhokhar's older brother, as the man with the backpack. Tamerlan was killed in a shootout with police four days after the attacks.
Thursday's session was the end of testimony for the week; the trial will resume Monday.