BOSTON - A U.S. law enforcement official and the uncle of
the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings are confirming that the name of
the second suspect is Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the older brother of Dzhokhar A.
Tsarnaev, 19.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a gun battle with police
in Massachusetts overnight.
The uncle, Ruslan Tsarni of Montgomery Village, Md., told
The Associated Press that the men lived together near Boston and have been in
the United States for about a decade. They traveled here together from the
Russian region near Chechnya.
The two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing are
believed to have killed an MIT police officer, injured a transit officer in a
firefight and threw explosive devices at police during their getaway attempt in
a long night of violence that left the older brother dead and the younger one
still at large Friday, authorities said.
In May of 2011, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, then a senior at a
prestigious high school, was awarded a $2,500 scholarship from the city of Cambridge,
Mass., to pursue higher education. Now, Tsarnaev is on the run, described as
"armed and dangerous" and suspected of the Boston Marathon bombing.
Two brothers, one now dead, one alive and at large. After
hours of only grainy images of two men in baseball caps to go on, a portrait
gradually started emerging Friday of the men suspected in the attack.
Tsarnaev, and his older brother, Tamerlan, who was killed
during a violent night in Cambridge, had been living together on Norfolk Street
in Cambridge. An uncle, Ruslan Tsarni of Montgomery Village, Md., told The
Associated Press that the men lived together near Boston and have been in the
United States for about a decade. They came from the Russian region near
Chechnya, which has been plagued by an Islamic insurgency stemming from
separatist wars.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's page on the Russian social networking
site Vkontakte says he attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, graduating
in 2011, the year he won the scholarship, which was celebrated with a reception
at City Hall, according to a news release issued at the time.
Before moving to the United States, he attended School
No. 1 in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, a predominantly Muslim republic
in Russia's North Caucasus that has become an epicenter of the Islamic
insurgency that spilled over from Chechnya.
On the site, he describes himself
as speaking Chechen as well as English and Russian. His world view is described
as "Islam" and he says his personal goal is "career and money."
Tsarnaev appeared in the video released by authorities on
Thursday, identified as Suspect Number 2, striding down a sidewalk, unnoticed
by spectators who were absorbed in the race. He followed Tamerlan by about 10
feet. He wore what appeared to be a gray hoodie under a dark jacket and pants,
and a white baseball cap facing
backward and pulled down haphazardly.
Tamerlan was stockier, in khaki pants, a light T-shirt,
and a dark jacket. The brim of his baseball cap faced forward, and he may have
been wearing sunglasses.
According to the website spotcrime.com, Tamerlan was
arrested for domestic violence in July 2009, after assaulting his girlfriend.
He was an amateur boxer, listed as a competitor in a
National Golden Gloves competition in 2009.
0 comments:
Post a Comment