BOSTON, Massachusetts - This week Rebekah DiMartino took the stand in a Boston courtroom, looked directly at the man authorities say detonated a bomb that literally ripped her body apart and she told her story.
After DiMartino left that courtroom she did something else. DiMartino took to Facebook where she posted an open letter telling the accused bomber ‘you saved my life.’
DiMartino’s leg was completely destroyed by shrapnel and debris April 15th 2013. Since that time she has undergone 16 surgeries and for a time she says believed she would never walk again.
Wednesday she walked into court and faced Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to tell her story.
This is how she described that moment in her open letter.
DiMartino goes on in her letter to call Tsarnaev a coward, a little boy who wouldn’t look her in the eye and someone who intended something evil.
DiMartino writes that yes Tsarnaev really did take a part of her.
DiMartino signed her letter simply, “Someone you shouldn’t have messed with”
And then #bostonstrong.
This is her letter