Hamilton Man: 'Those are Bombs'

The Red Sox had just won in dramatic, walk-off fashion on Monday afternoon and Jeff Stinson was walking back to his car, parked at the State House.

Stinson, who just finished a three-year term on the Hamilton Board of Selectmen, had been at Fenway Park for the traditional Patriots’ Day game that starts at 11 a.m.

He walked along the Boston Marathon route from Kenmore Square toward the Back Bay. When they neared the finish line on Boylston Street and encountered the stands on the sidewalk they turned down Exeter Street.

Then they heard it.

“When I turned around to see what happened I could hear it go off to the right. And then another one to the left,” he said. “I just said – those are bombs.”

Stinson, who was with his girlfriend, cousin and a friend, initially ran into the Lord and Taylor store that was right next to them.

Eventually, they walked through the South End and back to the State House.

“We’re still pretty shaken up,” he said on Monday evening after arriving safely back in Hamilton.