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An aspiring talented heavyweight [[boxing|boxer]], he trained at the Wai Kru Mixed Martial Arts Center, a [[Lowell]] club.<ref name="thecomment">{{Citation | last = Hirn | first = Johannes | title = Will box for Passport: An Olympic Drive to become a United States citizen | newspaper = ''The Comment'' Graduate Students Magazine of Boston University's College of Communications | year = 2010 | date = | url = http://www.bu.edu/com/comment/library/downloads/2010_comment.pdf | accessdate = April 20, 2013 }}</ref> In 2009 and 2010, he was the New England [[Golden Gloves]] heavyweight champion, winning the Rocky Marciano Trophy.<ref name="yahoo1">{{cite news|last=Iole |first=Kevin |url=http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/boxing/dead-boston-marathon-bombing-suspect-tamerlan-tsarnaev-had-174715975--box.html |title=Dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev had boxing aspirations |publisher=Sports.yahoo.com |date=May 28, 2012 |accessdate=April 20, 2013}}</ref><ref name="deadspin">{{Citation | last = Burke | first = Thimothy | title = Everything we know about Tamerlan Tsarnaev, dead bombing suspect | newspaper = Deadspin | year = 2013 | date = April 19 | url = http://deadspin.com/heres-everything-we-know-about-tamerlan-tsarnaev-the-476415081 | accessdate = April 20, 2013 }}</ref> In 2009 he fought in the nationals in the 201-pound weight class, but lost a first-round decision.<ref name="yahoo1"/> 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",<ref name="deadspin"/><ref name="thecomment"/> though stating that he "didn’t understand" Americans and had no American friends.<ref name="thecomment"/>
An aspiring talented heavyweight [[boxing|boxer]], he trained at the Wai Kru Mixed Martial Arts Center, a [[Lowell]] club.<ref name="thecomment">{{Citation | last = Hirn | first = Johannes | title = Will box for Passport: An Olympic Drive to become a United States citizen | newspaper = ''The Comment'' Graduate Students Magazine of Boston University's College of Communications | year = 2010 | date = | url = http://www.bu.edu/com/comment/library/downloads/2010_comment.pdf | accessdate = April 20, 2013 }}</ref> In 2009 and 2010, he was the New England [[Golden Gloves]] heavyweight champion, winning the Rocky Marciano Trophy.<ref name="yahoo1">{{cite news|last=Iole |first=Kevin |url=http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/boxing/dead-boston-marathon-bombing-suspect-tamerlan-tsarnaev-had-174715975--box.html |title=Dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev had boxing aspirations |publisher=Sports.yahoo.com |date=May 28, 2012 |accessdate=April 20, 2013}}</ref><ref name="deadspin">{{Citation | last = Burke | first = Thimothy | title = Everything we know about Tamerlan Tsarnaev, dead bombing suspect | newspaper = Deadspin | year = 2013 | date = April 19 | url = http://deadspin.com/heres-everything-we-know-about-tamerlan-tsarnaev-the-476415081 | accessdate = April 20, 2013 }}</ref> In 2009 he fought in the nationals in the 201-pound weight class, but lost a first-round decision.<ref name="yahoo1"/> 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",<ref name="deadspin"/><ref name="thecomment"/> though stating that he "didn’t understand" Americans and had no American friends.<ref name="thecomment"/>


He was a [[Permanent residence (United States)|permanent resident]] of the United States, but not a citizen.<ref name = "captured" /> Despite not being a U.S. citizen, he was somehow registered to vote.<ref>http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/friends-and-family-recall-bombing-suspects-as-polite-scholarly-1.5108588</ref><ref>http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/04/19/tamerlan-tsarnaev-boxing-boston-bombing_n_3115114.html</ref>
He was a [[Permanent residence (United States)|permanent resident]] of the United States, but not a citizen.<ref name = "captured" /> Despite not being a U.S. citizen, he was registered to vote in Massachusetts.<ref>http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/friends-and-family-recall-bombing-suspects-as-polite-scholarly-1.5108588</ref><ref>http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/04/19/tamerlan-tsarnaev-boxing-boston-bombing_n_3115114.html</ref>


During 2008 and 2009, he became a devout Muslim, demanded that his girlfriend cover herself and [[convert to Islam]], and would shout at her that she was a prostitute and a "slut".<ref name="autogenerated3"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.npr.org/2013/04/19/178005635/friends-family-describe-suspects-in-boston-marathon-attack |title=Friends, Family Describe Suspects In Boston Marathon Attack |publisher=NPR |date= |accessdate=2013-04-21}}</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"/>
During 2008 and 2009, he became a devout Muslim, demanded that his girlfriend cover herself and [[convert to Islam]], and would shout at her that she was a prostitute and a "slut".<ref name="autogenerated3"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.npr.org/2013/04/19/178005635/friends-family-describe-suspects-in-boston-marathon-attack |title=Friends, Family Describe Suspects In Boston Marathon Attack |publisher=NPR |date= |accessdate=2013-04-21}}</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"/>

Revision as of 03:55, 21 April 2013

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
File:BostonSuspect2.jpg
Born
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

(1993-07-22) July 22, 1993 (age 31)
Kirghizistan[1]
Relatives1 brother, 2 sisters
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 deathMultiple Gunshots, Self Applied Explosive Device & Run Over
Relatives1 brother, 2 sisters

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Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev (Russian: Джохар Царнаев, born July 22, 1993) and Tamerlan Tsarnaev (Russian: Тамерлан Царнаев, October 21, 1986 – April 19, 2013) are the main suspects in the April 2013 Boston Marathon bombings.[2] Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a gun battle with police on April 19, 2013, and Dzhokhar was taken into custody later that day by police.

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.[3][4]

The entire Tsarnaev family, including both brothers, immigrated in 2002 to the United States.[5][6][7][8] In the U.S. they applied for refugee status and settled in Massachusetts. Tamerlan lived in Cambridge for ten years, on Norfolk Street at the time of his death.[9][2] Both brothers are Muslim.[10][11][5]

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Born in Kyrgyzstan,[1] Dzhokhar "Jahar" Tsarnaev became a naturalized U.S. citizen on September 11, 2012.[1][8][12] He attended the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School for high school.[9] He was an avid wrestler, captain of his high school wrestling team, and a Greater Boston League Winter All-Star.[9][13] During high school, he sometimes worked as a lifeguard at Harvard University.[14] He graduated from high school in 2011.[13] That year, the City of Cambridge awarded him a $2,500 scholarship.[9]

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.[15][16] 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.[9] He had said that he hoped to become a dentist.[13][17]

He posted links to Islamic websites such as "Salamworld, my religion is Islam" and "There is no God but Allah, let that ring out in our hearts" on what appears to be his page on a Russian language social networking site VK. On the same page he describes his "World View" as "Islam", posted links to videos of fighters in the Syrian civil war and links to pages calling for independence for Chechnya.[18][19]

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.[20] 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.[22]

During a manhunt for him, he was found injured in a boat in a Watertown backyard. A resident noticed one of the straps on his boat cover had been cut. He noticed blood on the boat when he got closer; he lifted the cover and saw the bloody man then retreated into the house and called 911. Tsarnaev was taken into federal custody following a standoff on the evening of April 19, 2013.[23][24]

He is being treated at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, where he is in serious condition and was unable to communicate.[25] He is to be questioned by a federal High-Value Interrogation Group, which will include members of the FBI, CIA, and Department of Defense.[26]

Tamerlan Tsarnaev

Tamerlan Tsarnaev was born in the Russian SFSR, in the Soviet Union.[1] After arriving in the United States in 2002, he attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School.[27] He later attended Bunker Hill Community College part-time between 2006 and 2008, studying accounting with hopes of becoming an engineer.[28] He dropped out of school to concentrate on boxing.[29][12]

An aspiring talented heavyweight boxer, he trained at the Wai Kru Mixed Martial Arts Center, a Lowell club.[29] In 2009 and 2010, he was the New England Golden Gloves heavyweight champion, winning the Rocky Marciano Trophy.[30][31] In 2009 he fought in the nationals in the 201-pound weight class, but lost a first-round decision.[30] 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",[31][29] though stating that he "didn’t understand" Americans and had no American friends.[29]

He was a permanent resident of the United States, but not a citizen.[8] Despite not being a U.S. citizen, he was registered to vote in Massachusetts.[32][33]

During 2008 and 2009, he became a devout Muslim, demanded that his girlfriend cover herself and convert to Islam, and would shout at her that she was a prostitute and a "slut".[16][34] He was arrested at his home on 410 Norfolk Street on July 28, 2009, for aggravated domestic assault and battery, after allegedly assaulting his girlfriend.[27][35] His father remarked: “Because of his girlfriend, he hit her lightly, he was locked up for half an hour.”[9]

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.[36][37] She began wearing Islamic clothing, and the two of them had a child, who was three years old at the time of the bombing.[38][39]

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.[40] 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.[40] 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.[40] 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".[16][41] He had jihadi videos posted to his YouTube account, and on a YouTube channel he shared videos of lectures from a radical Islamic cleric, including one in which Arabic singing is accompanied by the sound of bombs exploding.[42][12]

Tamerlan traveled to Russia in January 2012.[21] He returned to the United States that July, having grown a long, thick beard.[43][44][21] His activities during this time remain unclear.[45] He appeared to be unemployed.[46]

Tamerlan was killed during a manhunt launched in the early hours of April 19 that included a gun battle with police.[2][35] He was captured and taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center,[47] where he died of multiple gunshot wounds and being run over by his brother in an SUV.[48]

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