Boston Marathon bombing suspect: What we know about Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev so far
By KATE STANTON, UPI.com
1 of 3 | The FBI released a photo of Suspect 1 and Suspect 2 (L) in surveillance video from the Boston Marathon. Suspect 1 is now identified as now identified as Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, and Suspect 2 is his brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, both of Cambridge, Massachusetts on April 19, 2013. UPI | License Photo
After a late night police shootout, Boston is on lockdown as authorities search for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, one of the suspects in the Monday's marathon bombings. Here's what we know about him and his deceased 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, so far.
Dzhokhar, who was born July 22, 1993, in Kyrgyzstan, is believed to have attended Cambridge Ringe & Latin School. He graduated in 2011, the same year the city of Cambridge awarded him a $2,500 college scholarship. CBS News and NBC's Pete Williams reported that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev became an American citizen last year on September 11.
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According to various reports from Slate, Buzzfeed and other sources, several of Dzhokhar's classmates say he was a "nice kid."
"I saw the pictures last night and thought it looked kind of like him," Dzhokhar's former classmate, Rebecca Mazur, told Buzzfeed. "But I felt mean even thinking that the person in the photos looked like him."
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“I just remember seeing him on the wrestling team, just one of the normal kids. He seemed like a nice guy. He hung out with people who I knew as nice people," family friend Nathan Greenberg told Slate.
Here's is Dzhokhar's Russian Facebook page as discovered by RT. He listed his world view as "Islam" and his priorities as "Career and money":
Despite numerous fake Twitter accounts that popped up Thursday, Buzzfeed and Gawker's Adrian Chen are confident they identified his real user name, @J_tsar. A cached version of the account features his face as a profile picture:
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UMass Dartmouth closed Thursday after reports that Dzhokhar is a registered student there.
Dzhokhar's brother, Tamerlan, died in the shootout with police. NBC's Pete Williams reported Thursday morning that Dzhokhar had run over his brother during the getaway.
NBC's Pete Williams saying that at-large suspect drove over his brother in getaway #Bostonbombing#manhunt
Tamerlan was born October 21, 1986, in Kyrgyzstan. He first arrived in the U.S. in 2003. MSNBC describes Tamerlan as a "prize-winning heavyweight boxer" who wanted to represent the United States at the Olympics. Slate found a photo essay about Tamerlan's training as a boxer in Salt Lake City called "Will Box for Passport."
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"I don't have a single American friend, I don't understand them," Tamerlan says in the photo captions. According to Spotcrime.com, Tamerlan was arrested in 2009 for assaulting his girlfriend.
He also described himself as a Muslim and attended Bunker Hill Community College as an engineering student.
The suspects' uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, said he knew his nephews as children, but couldn't explain why they allegedly became violent.
"Being losers, hatred to those who were able to settle themselves. These are the only reasons I can imagine of. Anything else, anything else to do with religion, with Islam, is a fake," he said.