A trauma surgeon who treated Dzhokhar Tsarnaev said the alleged Boston Marathon bomber suffered a gunshot wound to the face and a skull fracture among other injuries before he was captured, NBC News reported Tuesday.
Dr. Stephen Ray Odom, a certified surgeon at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, said in newly unsealed court documents that he was the surgeon on call when Tsarnaev was brought to the hospital and Tsarnaev’s attending physician in the following days.
“He has multiple gunshot wounds, the most severe of which appears to have entered through the left side inside of his mouth and exited the left face, lower face” resulting in a skull-base fracture and other injuries, Odom said in a transcript dated three days after Tsarnaev’s capture, as quoted by NBC News.
“He has multiple gunshots [sic] wounds to the extremities that have been treated with dressing to the lower extremities; and in the case of his left hand, he had multiple bony injuries as well that were treated with fixation and soft-tissue coverage, as well as tendon repair and vascular ligation,” Odom told U.S. Magistrate Judge Marianne B. Bowler, as quoted by NBC News.
