Russians bothers, 26 year old Tamerlan and 19 year old Dzhokhar, a
second-year medical student in the U.S, are suspected to be behind the Boston
Marathon bombings. Tamerlan was killed in a shootout with police last night,
Dzhokhar is being intensely pursued. Below is their story…
In May of 2011, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev (pictured above and below right), 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.
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.
19, 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.
From Boston Associated Press
