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He was a Russian citizen according to his father <ref>{{cite web|author=By '+data[show_id].author[0].name+' |url=http://www.wbur.org/2013/04/15/live-blog-multiple-explosions-at-boston-marathon-finish-line#russias-izvestia-interviews-boston-bombing-suspects-father |title=‘The Hunt Is Over’: 1 Marathon Bombing Suspect Dead, 1 In Custody After Paralyzing Manhunt |publisher=WBUR |date=April 15, 2013 |accessdate=April 21, 2013}}</ref> and [[Permanent residence (United States)|permanent resident]] of the United States, but not a citizen.<ref name = "captured" /> A record of his FBI interview led [[Homeland Security]] to hold up his application for citizenship.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/us/tamerlan-tsarnaevs-citizenship-held-up-by-homeland-security.html?_r=0]</ref> Despite not being a U.S. citizen, he was registered to vote in Massachusetts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/friends-and-family-recall-bombing-suspects-as-polite-scholarly-1.5108588 |title=Friends and family recall bombing suspects as polite, scholarly |publisher=Newsday.com |date=April 16, 2013 |accessdate=April 21, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/04/19/tamerlan-tsarnaev-boxing-boston-bombing_n_3115114.html |title=Tamerlan Tsarnaev: Man Named As Dead Boston Bombing Suspect Was 'Very Religious', Liked Borat And Trance |publisher=Huffingtonpost.co.uk |date= |accessdate=April 21, 2013}}</ref>
He was a Russian citizen according to his father <ref>{{cite web|author=By '+data[show_id].author[0].name+' |url=http://www.wbur.org/2013/04/15/live-blog-multiple-explosions-at-boston-marathon-finish-line#russias-izvestia-interviews-boston-bombing-suspects-father |title=‘The Hunt Is Over’: 1 Marathon Bombing Suspect Dead, 1 In Custody After Paralyzing Manhunt |publisher=WBUR |date=April 15, 2013 |accessdate=April 21, 2013}}</ref> and [[Permanent residence (United States)|permanent resident]] of the United States, but not a citizen.<ref name = "captured" /> A record of his FBI interview led [[Homeland Security]] to hold up his application for citizenship.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/us/tamerlan-tsarnaevs-citizenship-held-up-by-homeland-security.html?_r=0]</ref> Despite not being a U.S. citizen, he was registered to vote in Massachusetts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/friends-and-family-recall-bombing-suspects-as-polite-scholarly-1.5108588 |title=Friends and family recall bombing suspects as polite, scholarly |publisher=Newsday.com |date=April 16, 2013 |accessdate=April 21, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/04/19/tamerlan-tsarnaev-boxing-boston-bombing_n_3115114.html |title=Tamerlan Tsarnaev: Man Named As Dead Boston Bombing Suspect Was 'Very Religious', Liked Borat And Trance |publisher=Huffingtonpost.co.uk |date= |accessdate=April 21, 2013}}</ref>


He was arrested at his home on 410 Norfolk Street on July 28, 2009, for [[aggravated assault|aggravated]] [[domestic assault]] and [[Battery (crime)|battery]], after allegedly assaulting his girlfriend.<ref name="wickedlocal1"/><ref name="ForeignPolicy04192013"> {{cite web | last = Kenner | first = David | title = Who Is Tamerlan Tsarnaev | publisher = Foreign Policy | date = April 19, 2013 | url = http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/04/19/who_is_tamerlan_tzarnaev? | accessdate = April 19, 2013 }}</ref> His father remarked: “Because of his girlfriend, he hit her lightly, he was locked up for half an hour.”<ref name="nytimes1"/>
He was arrested at his home on 410 Norfolk Street, in [[Cambridge,_Massachusetts|Cambridge]] on July 28, 2009, for [[aggravated assault|aggravated]] [[domestic assault]] and [[Battery (crime)|battery]], after allegedly assaulting his girlfriend.<ref name="wickedlocal1"/><ref name="ForeignPolicy04192013"> {{cite web | last = Kenner | first = David | title = Who Is Tamerlan Tsarnaev | publisher = Foreign Policy | date = April 19, 2013 | url = http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/04/19/who_is_tamerlan_tzarnaev? | accessdate = April 19, 2013 }}</ref> His father remarked: “Because of his girlfriend, he hit her lightly, he was locked up for half an hour.”<ref name="nytimes1"/>


He married a woman from [[North Kingstown]], [[Rhode Island]], who reportedly converted to Islam after meeting him and was 24 years old at the time of the bombing.<ref name="bostonglobe1"/><ref name="huffingtonpost1">{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/20/tamerlan-tsarnaev-funeral-boston-bomber_n_3123798.html |title=Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Suspected Boston Bomber, May Not Get Islamic Funeral From Wary Muslims |publisher=Huffingtonpost.com |date= |accessdate=April 21, 2013}}</ref> She began wearing Islamic clothing, and the two of them had a child, who was three years old at the time of the bombing.<ref name="huffingtonpost1"/><ref name="bostonglobe1"/>
He married a woman from [[North Kingstown]], [[Rhode Island]], who reportedly converted to Islam after meeting him and was 24 years old at the time of the bombing.<ref name="bostonglobe1"/><ref name="huffingtonpost1">{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/20/tamerlan-tsarnaev-funeral-boston-bomber_n_3123798.html |title=Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Suspected Boston Bomber, May Not Get Islamic Funeral From Wary Muslims |publisher=Huffingtonpost.com |date= |accessdate=April 21, 2013}}</ref> She began wearing Islamic clothing, and the two of them had a child, who was three years old at the time of the bombing.<ref name="huffingtonpost1"/><ref name="bostonglobe1"/>

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The investigation's "turning point" was the release of photos of "Suspects 1 and 2", later identified as Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev (Russian: Джохар Царнаев, born July 22, 1993) and Tamerlan Tsarnaev (Russian: Тамерлан Царнаев, October 21, 1986 – April 19, 2013) are suspected of being the terrorists responsible for the April 15, 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, in which 3 people were killed and 183 others were injured.[1]

On April 18, about 5 hours after the FBI release images of the brothers, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus police officer was ambushed and killed in his police car.[2] The Watertown Police Chief said that the brothers then car-jacked a car, taking its owner hostage, and told the carjacking victim that they had bombed the race and killed a police officer.[3]

Tracked to Watertown, the brothers engaged police in a firefight just after midnight on April 19 in which guns, homemade grenades and a pressure cooker bomb were used by the suspects. A Transit Police officer was critically wounded during this battle. Tamerlan was captured but died either on the scene or shortly after in hospital. Dzhokhar escaped, driving over his brother in the process, then on foot.

After an unprecedented manhunt, Dzhokhar was taken into custody by police in the evening of April 19 in Watertown. He was seriously injured and taken to hospital. Speaking of Dzhokhar, Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis said: "We believe this man to be a terrorist."[4]

Background

The brothers were born in the North Caucasus, and are ethnic Chechens. They have two sisters. When they were young, they lived in Tokmok, Kyrgyzstan, and Makhachkala, Dagestan in Russia.[5][6]

The entire Tsarnaev family, including both brothers, immigrated in 2002 to the United States.[7][8][9] In the U.S. the parents received asylum, and then filed for their four children, who were given “derivative asylum status”.[2] They then applied for refugee status.[2] The family settled in Massachusetts. In March 2007, the family was granted legal permanent residence in the United States.[10] Tamerlan lived in Cambridge for ten years, on Norfolk Street at the time of his death.[11][1]

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
File:BostonSuspect2.jpg
Born
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

(1993-07-22) July 22, 1993 (age 31)
Kyrgyzstan[12]
Occupationcollege student
Parentboth alive
Relatives1 brother (Tamerlan Tsarnaev)
2 sisters

Born in Kyrgyzstan, Dzhokhar "Jahar" Tsarnaev became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2012.[12][9][13] He attended the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School for high school.[11] He was an avid wrestler, captain of his high school wrestling team, and a Greater Boston League Winter All-Star.[11][14] During high school, he sometimes worked as a lifeguard at Harvard University.[15] He graduated from high school in 2011.[14] That year, the City of Cambridge awarded him a $2,500 scholarship.[11]

At the time of the bombing, Dzhokhar was a sophomore at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, with a major in marine biology, living in the school's Pine Dale Hall dorm.[16][17] He was struggling academically, having received seven failing grades over three semesters, including F’s in Principles of Modern Chemistry, Intro to American Politics, and Chemistry and the Environment.[11] He had said that he hoped to become a dentist.[14][18] His brother's boxing coach, John Curran, reported to NBC that "the young brother was like a puppy dog following his older brother".[19][20]

He was active on Twitter. On the day of the 2012 Boston Marathon a year prior to the bombings, a post on his Twitter feed referred to a Koran verse often used by radical Muslim clerics and propagandists.[16] He continued to tweet after the bombing.[21] On television, his uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, living in Montgomery Village, Maryland, pleaded with Dzhokhar to turn himself in, and that he shamed the family and the Chechen ethnicity.[22]

During a manhunt for him on the evening of April 19, 2013, he was discovered wounded in a boat in a Watertown backyard. A resident noticed one of the straps on his boat cover had been cut, and that there was blood on his boat. He lifted the cover, saw a bloody man, retreated into his house, and called 911. Tsarnaev, who had been shot and was bleeding badly, was taken into federal custody following a standoff.[23][24][25]

He is being treated for severe injuries at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, where he is in serious condition and unable to communicate due to a neck wound and being intubated and sedated.[26][27] He is to be questioned by a federal High-Value Interrogation Group, a special counterterrorism group created to question high-value detainees, which will include members of the FBI, CIA, and Department of Defense.[23][28]

Tamerlan Tsarnaev

Tamerlan Tsarnaev
Born
Tamerlan Tsarnaev

October 21, 1986
North Caucasus, Russian RSFSR, Soviet Union
DiedApril 19, 2013(2013-04-19) (aged 26)
Watertown, Massachusetts, U.S.
Cause of deathBallistic and vehicular trauma
Occupationunemployed
Parentboth alive
Relatives1 brother (Dzhokhar Tsarnaev), 2 sisters, wife, 1 child

Tamerlan Tsarnaev was born in the Russian SFSR, in the Soviet Union.[12] After arriving in the United States in 2002, he attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School.[29] He later attended Bunker Hill Community College part-time between 2006 and 2008, studying accounting with hopes of becoming an engineer.[30] He dropped out of school to concentrate on boxing.[31][13]

An aspiring talented heavyweight boxer, he trained at the Wai Kru Mixed Martial Arts Center, a Lowell club.[31] In 2009 and 2010, he was the New England Golden Gloves heavyweight champion, winning the Rocky Marciano Trophy.[32][33] In May 2009 he fought in the nationals in the 201-pound weight class, but lost a first-round decision.[32][34] According to a 2010 photo essay about him published by Johannes Hirn in The Comment, the Graduate Student Magazine of Boston University's College of Communications, Tamerlan said that he was working to become a naturalized citizen in time to be selected for the US Olympic boxing team. He added that he would "rather compete for the United States than for Russia",[33][31] though stating that he "didn’t understand" Americans and had no American friends.[31] Pro super middleweight Edwin Rodriguez, who fights at the much lighter weight of 168 pounds, sparred with Tsarnaev in 2010, and said that though Tsarnaev hit hard he lacked competitiveness and immediately complained of stomach pain and rib pain; Rodriguez thought Tsarnaev was a coward below a veneer of arrogance.[35] Tamerlan's landlord said that his boxing aspirations were never met, because: "His back was in really bad shape and he couldn't get into the Olympics."[36]

He was a Russian citizen according to his father [37] and permanent resident of the United States, but not a citizen.[9] A record of his FBI interview led Homeland Security to hold up his application for citizenship.[38] Despite not being a U.S. citizen, he was registered to vote in Massachusetts.[39][40]

He was arrested at his home on 410 Norfolk Street, in Cambridge on July 28, 2009, for aggravated domestic assault and battery, after allegedly assaulting his girlfriend.[29][41] His father remarked: “Because of his girlfriend, he hit her lightly, he was locked up for half an hour.”[11]

He married a woman from North Kingstown, Rhode Island, who reportedly converted to Islam after meeting him and was 24 years old at the time of the bombing.[16][42] She began wearing Islamic clothing, and the two of them had a child, who was three years old at the time of the bombing.[42][16]

In early 2011, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) domestic intelligence security agency told the FBI that Tamerlan was a follower of radical Islam, according to two law enforcement officials.[43] The FBI said in a news release that it had been informed by a foreign government that he had prepared to travel to the Russian region to join unspecified underground groups.[43] The FBI said that it interviewed him and relatives of his, but did not find any terrorist activity, and that it provided the results in the summer of 2011.[43] His mother said that FBI agents had told her they feared Tamerlan was an "extremist leader," and that he was getting information from "extremist sites".[17][44]

Tamerlan traveled to Russia in January 2012.[21] During the six months he was overseas, he visited the North Caucasus, including Dagestan and Chechnya.[45] His activities during this time remain unclear.[46] He returned to the United States that July, having grown a long, thick beard.[47][16][21] He appeared to have been unemployed.[16]

Tamerlan was killed during a manhunt launched in the early hours of April 19 that included a gun battle with police.[1][41] He was captured and taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center,[48] where he died of multiple gunshot wounds and being run over by his brother in an SUV while police were handcuffing him.[49]

Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, the mother of the suspected bombers, says that Tamerlan had been under FBI surveillance for several years – "The FBI used to come and talk to me [about Tamerlan]. They were controlling every step of him, and they are telling today that this is a terrorist act." [50]

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