THE DOUBLE BROTHERHOOD BOSTON MARATHON BOMBERS: DZHOKHAR & TAMERLAN TSARNAEV (APRIL 19, 2013)

            On this date, April 19, 2013, one of the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombers, Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed. I will post information about the Two Tsarnaev Brothers from Wikipedia.

 

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, left, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Photograph: AP [PHOTO SOURCE: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/apr/19/tamerlan-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-boston-bombings-chechnya]

Dzhokhar Anzorovich "Jahar" Tsarnaev (born July 22, 1993) and Tamerlan Anzorovich Tsarnaev (Тамерла́н Анзо́рович Царна́ев) (October 21, 1986 – April 19, 2013) are two brothers suspected of perpetrating the April 15, 2013, Boston Marathon bombings. The bombings killed three people and reportedly injured as many as 264 others.

Shortly after the Federal Bureau of Investigation declared them suspects in the bombings and released images of them, the Tsarnaev brothers allegedly killed an MIT police officer, carjacked an SUV, and engaged in a shootout with the police in the Boston suburb of Watertown, during which Tamerlan was killed and an MBTA police officer was critically injured (the latter by what may have been friendly fire). Dzhokhar was injured but escaped, and an unprecedented manhunt ensued, with thousands of police searching a 20-block area of Watertown. On the evening of April 19, the heavily wounded Dzhokhar was found unarmed hiding in a boat on a trailer in Watertown just outside the police perimeter, arrested, and taken to a hospital. It was later reported that he was persuaded to surrender when the FBI negotiators mentioned a public plea from his former wrestling coach.

While still confined to a hospital bed, Dzhokhar was charged on April 22 with using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death and with malicious destruction of property resulting in death. He could face the death penalty if convicted. Dzhokhar allegedly later admitted during questioning that they next intended to detonate explosives in Times Square in New York City. Dzhokhar reportedly also admitted to authorities that he and his brother were radicalized, at least in part, by watching Anwar al-Awlaki lectures. ABC reported on April 23, 2013, that authorities linked Tamerlan to an unsolved triple homicide in nearby Waltham that took place around the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

Born seven years apart in different republics of the former Soviet Union, the brothers are half Chechen and half Avar. They immigrated to the United States as refugees in 2002. Tamerlan was an aspiring boxer who authorities believe had recently become a follower of radical Islam. Dzhokhar was a student at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth who became a naturalized U.S. citizen on September 11, 2012, seven months before the bombings.