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Boston Marathon bombings suspect on Twitter: 'stay safe people'

The FBI released a photo of Suspect 2, now identified as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, of Cambridge, Massachusetts on April 19, 2013. He and his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, are suspected of planting the bombs that killed three and injured 170 during the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. Tamerlan was killed by police on April 18, 2013 and Dzhokhar is still on the loose near Boston. UPI
1 of 3 | The FBI released a photo of Suspect 2, now identified as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, of Cambridge, Massachusetts on April 19, 2013. He and his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, are suspected of planting the bombs that killed three and injured 170 during the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. Tamerlan was killed by police on April 18, 2013 and Dzhokhar is still on the loose near Boston. UPI | License Photo

BOSTON, April 19 (UPI) -- Cryptic and mundane messages were posted on the Twitter account a high school friend said belongs to Boston Marathon bombings suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Two days after the bombings at the finish line killed three people and wounded more than 170, the still-at-large suspect posted, "I'm a stress-free kind of guy," on the Twitter page of "Jahar," which has a lion as an avatar.

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Boston and its suburbs, universities and transit system were on lockdown Friday as police hunted for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, still at large after his accomplice brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was killed in a series of events that left a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer dead and a transit officer injured, officials said Friday.

Three people died and more than 170 people were injured in the Monday blasts. The FBI had released the brothers' photos Thursday.

BuzzFeed said a high school classmate of Tsarnaev confirmed that @J_tsar is his Twitter account: "I would confirm this as to being his Twitter account. Those users went to my high school."

On the day of the bombings he posted: "Ain't no love in the heart of the city, stay safe people."

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Later on Monday he wrote, "Here are people that know the truth but stay silent & there are people that speak the truth but we don't hear them cuz they're the minority."

Other posts showed a tweet suggesting he tried an antihistamine for an ailment and one he wrote about a haircut, noting, "I usually don't do those."

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