article_snippet: That's what police officers from Watertown, Massachusetts, described in heart-stopping detail Monday, revealing details of a chaotic shootout with the Boston Marathon bombing suspects.
article_snippet: The shootout with police in the early morning hours of April 19, 2013, marked one of the most dramatic chapters in the manhunt for the suspects who paralyzed the Boston metropolitan area for days.
article_snippet: Then the two brothers began throwing improvised explosives, including pipe bombs and a pressure cooker bomb, the officers testified.
article_snippet: The dramatic descriptions of the shootout Monday sounded like a scene from a Hollywood film, said Boston Globe columnist Kevin Cullen.
highlights_snippet: 3 police officers described an intense gun battle with Boston Marathon bomb suspects .
  
highlights_snippet: 3 police officers said the 2 men shot at 3 police officers, threw bombs and tried to run 3 police officers over .
  