Tamerlan Tsarnaev

The Tsarnaev family was forcibly moved from Chechnya to the Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan in the years following World War II. Husband Anzor Tsarnaev is Chechen, and wife Zubeidat Tsarnaeva is an Avar. The Tsarnaevs had two daughters and two sons. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was born in the Kalmyk Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic on October 21, 1986, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was born in Kyrgyzstan on July 22, 1993.

As children, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev lived in Tokmok, Kyrgyzstan.{{cite book|author=Masha Gessen |title=The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy|year= 2015|publisher=Riverhead Books |isbn=978-0-698-14870-3}} In 2001, the Tsarnaev family moved to Makhachkala, Dagestan, in the Russian Federation. In April 2002, the Tsarnaev parents and Dzhokhar visited the United States on a 90-day tourist visa. Anzor Tsarnaev applied for asylum, citing fears of deadly persecution due to his ties to Chechnya. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was left in the care of his uncle Ruslan in Kyrgyzstan, and arrived in the U.S. approximately two years later. The United States granted asylum to the Tsarnaev parents, and their four children later received "derivative asylum status". The family settled on Norfolk Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In March 2007, the Tsarnaevs were granted legal permanent residence. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a permanent resident of the U.S. and a citizen of both Russia and Kyrgyzstan.{{cite web|author=Staff|url=https://abcnews.go.com/International/boston-bomb-suspects-mother-young-son-obeyed-big/story?id=19014490&page=2#.UYecK7WkoXE|title=Boston Bomb Suspects' Mother Says Young Son Would Have Obeyed Big Brother|website=ABC News |date=April 22, 2013|access-date=May 9, 2013}}

According to Tsarnaev's immigration file,{{cite web |title=2015-HQFO-00593 -Tamerlan-A-File – Redacted |url=https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/About%20Us/Electronic%20Reading%20Room/A-Files%20of%20Interest%20-%20Static%20Files/Tamerlan_Tsarnaev.pdf |website=U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services |access-date=May 22, 2019}} Tsarnaev was admitted to the U.S. in 2003, receiving his visa at the U.S. consulate in Ankara, Turkey. After arriving in the U.S., he attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, a public high school.{{cite web|last=Saltzman |first=Amy|url=http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/news/x1148865564/Slain-bombing-suspect-had-arrest-record-in-Cambridge#axzz2R2U9zJQQ|title=Slain bombing suspect had arrest record in Cambridge|website=Wicked Local|date=July 28, 2009|access-date=April 20, 2013}} He applied for admission at the University of Massachusetts Boston for the fall of 2006, but was rejected.{{cite news|last=Bykowicz|first=Julie|url=http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-04-23/mom-shoplifts-as-her-boys-become-radicalized|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130423065426/http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-04-23/mom-shoplifts-as-her-boys-become-radicalized|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 23, 2013|title=Tsarnaev Family Crumbled Before Boston Bombs|newspaper=Businessweek|date=April 23, 2013|access-date=April 23, 2013}} He attended Bunker Hill Community College part-time for three terms between 2006 and 2008, studying accounting with hopes of becoming an engineer.{{cite news|author=David Randall|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-fbis-big-miss-boston-bombing-fugitive-shot-dead-was-on-radar-two-years-ago-8581570.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220526/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-fbis-big-miss-boston-bombing-fugitive-shot-dead-was-on-radar-two-years-ago-8581570.html |archive-date=May 26, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=The FBI's big miss: Boston bombing fugitive shot dead was on radar two years ago |newspaper=The Independent|access-date=April 23, 2013|location=London|date=April 21, 2013}} He dropped out of school to concentrate on boxing.

In 2007, Tsarnaev confronted a Brazilian youth who had dated his younger sister, Bella, and punched him in the face.{{cite news|title=The Tsarnaev brothers' troubled trail to Boston|url=https://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-boston-suspects-20130428-dto,0,15030.htmlstory|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=April 28, 2013|first1=Kim|last1=Murphy|first2=Joseph|last2=Tanfani|first3=Sergei L.|last3=Loiko}}

During 2008, Tsarnaev became a devout Muslim and stopped drinking and smoking (eventually becoming an extremist a year later). He began to regularly attend the Islamic Society of Boston mosque near his home in Cambridge. Although the Americans for Peace and Tolerance, a longtime critic of the mosque, alleges that the mosque supports "a brand of Islamic thought that encourages grievances against the West, distrust of law enforcement and opposition to Western forms of government, dress and social values,"{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/23/boston-mosque-radicals/2101411/|title=Boston suspects' mosque has ties to convicted terrorists fugitives and radical speakers|newspaper=USA Today|date=April 23, 2013|access-date=April 25, 2013|first1=Oren|last1=Dorell}} the mosque has condemned terrorism and would later ask Tsarnaev to stop attending because he interrupted the Friday sermon.

In May 2008, Tsarnaev's sister said that her husband was engaging in acts of physical abuse and adultery. Tsarnaev flew across the country to Bellingham, Washington, to "straighten up the brains" of his brother-in-law, Khozhugov.

An aspiring heavyweight boxer, Tsarnaev trained at the Wai Kru Mixed Martial Arts Center, a Boston club.{{cite web|last=Hirn|first=Johannes|title=Will box for Passport: An Olympic Drive to become a United States citizen|work=The Comment|year=2010|url=http://www.bu.edu/com/comment/library/downloads/2010_comment.pdf|access-date=April 20, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130419232421/http://www.bu.edu/com/comment/library/downloads/2010_comment.pdf|archive-date=April 19, 2013}} In 2009–10, he was the New England Golden Gloves heavyweight champion, winning the Rocky Marciano Trophy.{{cite news|last=Iole|first=Kevin|url=https://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=Yahoo|date=May 28, 2012|access-date=April 20, 2013}}{{cite web|last=Burke|first=Timothy|title=Everything we know about Tamerlan Tsarnaev, dead bombing suspect|work=Deadspin|date=April 19, 2013|url=http://deadspin.com/heres-everything-we-know-about-tamerlan-tsarnaev-the-476415081|access-date=April 20, 2013}} In May 2009, he fought in the nationals in the 201-pound weight class, but lost a first-round decision.{{cite news|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/2300-201_162-10016562.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130420061121/http://www.cbsnews.com/2300-201_162-10016562.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 20, 2013|title=The boxing career of Tamerlan Tsarnaev|newspaper=CBS News|access-date=April 21, 2013}}

Tsarnaev first dated Nadine Ascencao, who became his live-in girlfriend. After an incident between Ascencao and Tsarnaev, she called 911 crying hysterically and asking for help. Tsarnaev was arrested at his home at 410 Norfolk Street in Cambridge, on July 28, 2009, for aggravated domestic assault and battery.{{cite news|last=Kenner|first=David|title=Who Is Tamerlan Tsarnaev|newspaper=Foreign Policy|date=April 19, 2013|url=http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/04/19/who_is_tamerlan_tzarnaev?|access-date=April 19, 2013}} The case was dismissed for lack of prosecution.{{cite news|last=Bykowicz|first=Julie|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 25, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130425045220/http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-04-23/mom-shoplifts-as-her-boys-become-radicalized|url=http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-04-23/mom-shoplifts-as-her-boys-become-radicalized#p2|title=Tsarnaev Family Crumbled Before Boston Bombs|newspaper=Businessweek|date=April 23, 2013|access-date=April 23, 2013}}{{cite web|url=http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/462497/20130429/boston-bomber-ex-nadine-ascencao-tamerlan-tsarnaev.htm|title=Boston Bomber's Ex-Girlfriend Nadine Ascencao: Tamerlan Tsarnaev Abused and Tried to Brainwash Me|publisher=Ibtimes.co.uk|date=April 29, 2013|access-date=May 6, 2013}}

Tsarnaev dated Katherine Russell of North Kingstown, Rhode Island on and off while she attended Suffolk University from 2007 to 2010.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/boston-marathon-bombings-tamerlan-tsarnaevs-american-wife-learned-he-was-wanted-from-tv-8582959.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220526/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/boston-marathon-bombings-tamerlan-tsarnaevs-american-wife-learned-he-was-wanted-from-tv-8582959.html |archive-date=May 26, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Boston Marathon bombings: Tamerlan Tsarnaev's American wife learned he was wanted from TV|publisher=AP as reported in The Independent|date=April 22, 2013|access-date=April 22, 2013|location=London}} Russell converted to Islam and started wearing a hijab in 2008.{{cite news|last=Swaine|first=Jon|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10007326/Tamerlan-Tsarnaevs-wife-Katherine-Russell-wore-the-hijab-after-converting-to-Islam.html|title=Tamerlan Tsarnaev's wife wore the hijab after converting to Islam|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=April 20, 2013|access-date=April 22, 2013|location=London}} Friends said he would shout at her that she was a "slut".{{cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/2013/04/19/178005635/friends-family-describe-suspects-in-boston-marathon-attack|title=Friends, Family Describe Suspects In Boston Marathon Attack|newspaper=NPR|date=April 19, 2013|access-date=April 23, 2013}} They described fights in which Tsarnaev would "fly into rages and sometimes throw furniture or throw things".[https://www.npr.org/2013/04/19/178027690/older-suspect-described-as-controlling-manipulative Older Suspect Described As Controlling, Manipulative] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180302192959/https://www.npr.org/2013/04/19/178027690/older-suspect-described-as-controlling-manipulative |date=March 2, 2018 }}, National Public Radio, April 19, 2013.

The Tsarnaev brothers' uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, said he "had been concerned about his nephew being an extremist since 2009". Tsarni said that Tsarnaev's radicalization started not during his visit to Russia in January 2012, but much earlier in Boston after he was influenced by a Muslim convert known as "Misha".{{cite news|url=http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/04/24/family-tamerlan-tsarnaev-influenced-by-mysterious-radical-misha/|author=Adam Goldman, Eric Tucker, Matt Apuzzo and Associated Press|title=Family: Tamerlan Tsarnaev Influenced By Mysterious Radical 'Misha'|newspaper=CBS|date=April 24, 2013|access-date=April 25, 2013}} "Misha" was later identified as Mikhail Allakhverdov, a 39-year-old from Rhode Island (of Armenian-Ukrainian origin,{{cite news|url=http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2013/apr/28/tamerlan-tsarnaev-misha-speaks|title='Misha' Speaks: An Interview with the Alleged Boston Bomber's 'Svengali'|author=Christian Caryl|date=April 29, 2013|newspaper=New York Review of Books}} born in Azerbaijan).{{cite news|last=Murphy|first=Kim|url=https://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-boston-tsarnaev-misha-20130428,0,2967524.story|title=Boston bombing: Mysterious 'Misha' turns up in Rhode Island|newspaper=Latimes.com|date=April 28, 2013|access-date=May 6, 2013}} Allakhverdov told The New York Review of Books that he rejected violence, was not Tsarnaev's teacher, had not spoken to Tamerlan in three years and had never met his family members. Furthermore, he said that he had cooperated with a brief FBI investigation that the NYRB reported had found no ties between Allakhverdov and the attacks.

According to a 2010 photo essay in The Comment, the graduate student magazine of Boston University College of Communication, Tsarnaev said that he was working to become a naturalized citizen in time to be selected for the U.S. Olympic boxing team. He added that he would "rather compete for the United States than for Russia", while remarking that he "didn't understand" Americans and did not have any American friends. A later FBI report recorded Tamerlan stating that was a misquote, and that most of his friends were American.{{Cite news|url=https://vault.fbi.gov/tamerlan-tsarnaev|title=Tamerlan Tsarnaev|work=FBI|access-date=October 12, 2017|language=en-us}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/11/us/tamerlan-tsarnaev-fbi-boston-marathon-interview/index.html|title=Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev told FBI he never picked a fight|first=Eric |last=Levenson|work=CNN|access-date=October 12, 2017}} He added that he abstained from drinking and smoking, because "God says no to alcohol"{{cite news|publisher=Thomson Reuters Foundation|url=http://www.trust.org/item/?map=timeline-lives-of-tamerlan-and-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-2006-2013|title=Timeline – Lives of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 2006–2013

|first=Peter |last=Rudegeair|agency=Reuters|access-date=April 23, 2013}} and that "there are no values anymore. People can't control themselves".{{cite web|url=http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/the-brothers-who-paralysed-boston-20130420-2i6sf.html|title=The brothers who paralysed Boston|work=Brisbane Times|date=July 9, 2003|access-date=April 23, 2013}} Rule changes disqualified all non-US citizens from Golden Gloves boxing, ending Tsarnaev's boxing career and Olympic hopes.

In the spring of 2010, Katherine Russell became pregnant with Tsarnaev's child. Russell dropped out of college at the end of her junior year and married Tsarnaev on June 21, 2010, in a 15-minute ceremony in an office at the Masjid Al Quran in the Dorchester area of Greater Boston.{{cite web|url=http://wgntv.com/2013/04/23/boston-bombing-suspects-widow-assisting-investigation-lawyer-says|title=Boston bombing suspect's widow assisting investigation, lawyer says|date=April 23, 2013 |publisher=WGN-TV|access-date=April 23, 2013}}{{cite news|last=Cooper|first=Michael|url=http://wap.nytimes.com/2013/05/04/us/path-from-social-butterfly-to-suspects-widow-in-hijab.html|title=Path From 'Social Butterfly' to Boston Suspect's Widow|newspaper=The New York Times|date=June 21, 2010|access-date=May 6, 2013}}{{cite news|url=http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/world/boston-bombing-suspect-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-speaks-after-being-charged-in-hospital/story-fnd12peo-1226626662072|title=Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev's wife Katherine Russell 'had no idea of plot'|newspaper=The Courier-Mail|date=April 25, 2013|access-date=March 20, 2015}}{{cite news|last=Smith|first=Michelle R.|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/22/katherine-russell-tsarnaev-feds-interview_n_3131242.html|title=Katherine Russell Tsarnaev, wife of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, wanted by Feds for interview|newspaper=Huffington Post|date=April 22, 2013|access-date=April 22, 2013}}{{cite news|last1=Celona|first1=Larry|last2=Rosario|first2=Frank|last3=Greene|first3=Leonard|url=http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/fbi_bid_to_quiz_widow_about_plot_HXR1QdgSo7IW6G6Yd0tHoL|title=Wife of suspected Boston Marathon bomber faces FBI's heat|newspaper=New York Post|date=April 22, 2013|access-date=April 22, 2013}} Imam Taalib Mahdee said that he had not met the couple before the ceremony, and that Katherine was the one who had called and asked to be married there. Katherine Russell adopted the Muslim name "Karima".{{cite news|url=https://abcnews.go.com/International/boston-bomb-suspects-mother-young-son-obeyed-big/story?id=19014490#.UYeagLWkoXE|author=Kirit Radia|title=Bomb Suspects' Mother Says Young Son Would Have Obeyed Older Brother|date=April 22, 2013|access-date=April 19, 2015}}{{cite magazine|url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20694041,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130424032754/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20694041,00.html|archive-date=April 24, 2013|title=Katherine Russell Tsarnaev: From All-American Girl to Bomber's Wife|first=Steve |last=Helling|magazine=People Magazine|date=April 23, 2013|access-date=April 19, 2015|url-status=dead}} The couple's daughter, Zahara Tsarnaeva, was born in October 2010.{{cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/widow-boston-marathon-bombing-suspect-face-charges-article-1.2136736|author=Jason Silverstein|title=Widow of dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev may face charges for attack: report|date=March 4, 2015|access-date=April 16, 2015}}

Tsarnaev first came to the attention of Russian security forces in December 2010 when William Plotnikov was briefly detained in Dagestan and forced to disclose his social networking contacts in North America with ties to Russia.{{cite news|url=https://www.foxnews.com/world/russian-agents-watched-searched-for-boston-bombing-suspect-during-trip-to-dagestan|title=Russian agents watched, searched for Boston bombing suspect during trip to Dagestan|publisher=Fox News|date=October 1, 2006|access-date=May 1, 2013}}

In early 2011, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) told the Federal Bureau of Investigation that Tsarnaev was a follower of Islamic extremism. The FSB said that he was preparing to leave the United States to travel to the Russian region to join unspecified underground groups.{{cite web |url=https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/2011-request-for-information-on-tamerlan-tsarnaev-from-foreign-government |title=2011 Request for Information on Tamerlan Tsarnaev from Foreign Government |publisher=FBI |access-date=April 22, 2013}}{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fbi-got-information-from-foreign-government-that-tamerlan-tsarnaev-was-radical-islam-follower/2013/04/20/d171986c-a9d9-11e2-9e1c-bb0fb0c2edd9_story.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130423112138/http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fbi-got-information-from-foreign-government-that-tamerlan-tsarnaev-was-radical-islam-follower/2013/04/20/d171986c-a9d9-11e2-9e1c-bb0fb0c2edd9_story.html |archive-date=April 23, 2013 |last1=Goldman|first1=Adam|author-link1=Adam Goldman |last2=Sullivan|first2=Eileen|author-link2=Eileen Sullivan |title=FBI got information from Russian FSB that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was radical islam follower |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=April 20, 2013 |url-status=dead }} The FBI initially denied that it had contacted Tsarnaev, but then confirmed that it had after Tsarnaev's mother talked about the FBI's contacts with her son on RT.{{cite web|url=http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/04/20/cbs-news-fbi-interviewed-tamerlan-tsarnaev-2-years-ago|title=FBI Interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev 2 Years Ago|work=CBS Boston|date=April 20, 2013|access-date=April 22, 2013}} The FBI said that it interviewed him and relatives of his, but did not find any terrorist activity. At that point, the FBI asked the FSB for more information, but the Russians did not respond to the American request and the FBI closed the case.{{cite news|url=http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/boston-bombing-seen-as-us-russian-intelligence-failure/478985.html|title=Boston Bombing Seen as U.S.-Russian Intelligence Failure|newspaper=The Moscow Times|date=December 15, 2011|access-date=April 22, 2013}}

Tsarnaev's mother said that FBI agents had told her they feared her son was an "extremist leader", and that he was getting information from "extremist sites".{{cite news|last=Sherwell|first=Philip |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10008004/Boston-bomber-arrested-Tamerlan-Tsarnaev-was-questioned-by-FBI-in-2011.html|title=Boston bomber arrested: Tamerlan Tsarnaev was questioned by FBI in 2011|newspaper=The Telegraph|access-date=April 20, 2013|location=London|date=April 20, 2013}} She said Tsarnaev had been under FBI surveillance for at least three years and that "they were controlling every step of him". The FBI denied this accusation.{{youTube|id=ARE9rclZCqw |title=Tsarnaev brothers' mother: 'My sons are innocent, this is a setup'}}{{cite news |url=http://newyork.newsday.com/news/nation/tamerlan-tsarnaev-s-citizenship-bid-part-of-widening-boston-bombings-probe-1.5114418|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130514173652/http://newyork.newsday.com/news/nation/tamerlan-tsarnaev-s-citizenship-bid-part-of-widening-boston-bombings-probe-1.5114418 |archive-date=May 14, 2013|title=Tamerlan Tsarnaev's citizenship bid part of widening Boston bombings probe|newspaper=Newsday|date=April 21, 2013|access-date=April 21, 2013}} Tsarnaev "vaguely discussed" jihad during a 2011 phone call with his mother that was taped by the FSB, and intelligence officials also discovered text messages in which his mother discussed how he was ready to die for Islam.{{cite news|last=Chappell|first=Bill |url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/04/28/179611079/tamerlan-tsarnaev-spoke-of-jihad-with-mother-reports-say |title=Tamerlan Tsarnaev Spoke Of Jihad With Mother, Reports Say: The Two-Way|website=NPR|access-date=April 29, 2013}} In late 2011, the Central Intelligence Agency put both Tsarnaev and his mother on its Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment database.{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/boston-marathon-bombing-suspect-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-silent-after-read-miranda-rights/|title=Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev silent after read Miranda rights|work=CBS/AP|date=April 25, 2013|access-date=April 25, 2013}}

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Two Jewish men, Erik Weissman and Raphael Teken, as well as their roommate Brendan Mess, were killed in a triple homicide in Waltham, Massachusetts, on September 11, 2011, the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/boston-bombing-brings-twist-cold-murder-case/story?id=19063282#.UX8hI1fhf5m|title=Boston Bombing Brings Twist to Cold Murder Case|last=McPhee|first=Michele|author-link=Michele McPhee|website=ABC News |date=April 29, 2013|access-date=May 6, 2013}}{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/bloggish/item/did_tamarlan_tsarnaev_kill_his_jewish_friends|title=Did Tamarlan Tsarnaev kill his Jewish friends?|work=The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles|date=September 12, 2011|access-date=April 23, 2013}}{{cite web|url=http://forward.com/articles/175264/slain-boston-bomb-suspect-tamerlan-tsarnaev-eyed-i|title=Slain Boston Bomb Suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev Eyed in Jewish Triple Murder|date=April 23, 2013 |publisher=Forward|access-date=April 23, 2013}} Each victim's throat had been slit with such great force as to nearly decapitate him. Thousands of dollars worth of marijuana and cash were left covering the victims' bodies, and $5,000 was left at the scene. The local district attorney said that it appeared that the killer and the victims knew each other. It was reported on April 23, 2013, that local authorities believed Tsarnaev may have been responsible for the triple homicide, and they and the FBI were investigating the possibility.{{cite news|author=Adrian Walker|url=https://boston.com/metrodesk/2013/04/22/police-probe-possible-link-between-marathon-bomber-and-unsolved-triple-homicide-waltham/T6MgaX0lur7plZrGj0HsvO/story.html|title=Police probe possible link between Marathon bomber and unsolved triple homicide in Waltham|publisher=Boston|date=September 12, 2011|access-date=April 23, 2013}}{{cite news|url=http://www.news.com.au/world-news/suspected-boston-bomber-tamerlan-tsarnaev-linked-to-grisly-2011-triple-murder/story-fndir2ev-1226626712280|title=Suspected Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev 'linked to grisly 2011 triple murder'|website=News.com.au|access-date=April 23, 2013|date=April 23, 2013|archive-date=September 27, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927220642/http://www.news.com.au/world-news/suspected-boston-bomber-tamerlan-tsarnaev-linked-to-grisly-2011-triple-murder/story-fndir2ev-1226626712280|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|last=McPhee|first=Michele|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/boston-bomb-suspect-eyed-connection-2011-triple-murder/story?id=19015628#.UXYXeVfhf5n|title=Boston Bomb Suspect Eyed in Connection to 2011 Triple Murder|website=ABC News|date=April 15, 2013|access-date=April 23, 2013}}{{cite news|last=Gordon|first=Greg|url=http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2020845405_bostonsuspectwarsxml.html|title=Accused bomber says U.S. wars fed the brothers' radicalism|newspaper=The Seattle Times|date=April 23, 2013|access-date=April 25, 2013}} In May, forensic evidence connected the two brothers to the scene of the killings, and their cell phone records appeared to place them in the area. The officials cautioned that until more definitive DNA testing was complete, it was still too early to consider bringing an indictment against the younger of the two brothers.{{cite news|author=McPhee, Michele|title='Mounting Evidence' Boston Bombers Involved in 2011 Triple Murder|date=May 10, 2013|work=ABC News|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/mounting-evidence-boston-bombers-involved-2011-triple-murder/story?id=19151271#.UY3dccrhf5k|access-date=August 17, 2013}}

ABC reported on April 23, 2013, that authorities had linked Tsarnaev to the Waltham unsolved triple homicide. A search warrant affidavit that was partially unsealed in November 2019 provided further details about Tsarnaev's alleged connection to the crime.{{cite news|author=Andersen, Travis|title=Tamerlan Tsarnaev's friend said they committed 2011 triple slaying in Waltham, took cash, and tried to clean up the scene|date=November 15, 2019|newspaper=The Boston Globe |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/11/15/tamerlan-tsarnaev-friend-said-they-committed-triple-slay-waltham-took-cash-and-tried-clean-scene/5YKsExgIizZpigXyeYzSML/story.html?s_campaign=bostonglobe%3Asocialflow%3Afacebook|access-date=November 15, 2019}}

Tsarnaev traveled to Russia through Moscow's Domodedovo International Airport in January 2012, and returned to the U.S. in July 2012. He and his wife received public assistance and food stamps from September 2011 to November 2012, which included all the time Tsarnaev was in Russia. Zubeidat Tsarnaeva said her son had wanted his wife and their child to move to Dagestan with him, and that: "She herself agreed; she said she wanted to study a different culture, language."

During the six months he was overseas, he visited his family in the North Caucasus.

Tsarnaev's father said that he was with him in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, for six months and that they had done ordinary things, such as visiting relatives. His father also said that they visited Chechnya twice, to see relatives there and to receive his son's new Russian passport.{{cite news|last=Balmforth|first=Tom|title='A Clear Setup': The Conspiracy Theory of the Boston Bombing Suspects' Father|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/04/father-of-boston-bombing-suspects-says-situation-is-clear-setup/275168|access-date=April 22, 2013|newspaper=The Atlantic|date=April 22, 2013|location=Makhachkala}}{{cite magazine|last=Shuster|first=Simon|url=https://world.time.com/2013/04/29/picking-up-the-boston-bomber-trail-in-utamysh-russia/|title=The Boston-Bomber Trail: Fresh Clues in Rural Dagestan|magazine=Time|date=April 29, 2013|access-date=May 6, 2013}} While Tsarnaev arrived in Russia in January 2012, however, he only arrived in Dagestan around March, and his father arrived there in May.{{cite news|last=Elder|first=Miriam|title=Tsarnaev aunt reveals further details about visit to Dagestan|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/apr/22/tsernaev-aunt-details-visit-dagestan|newspaper=The Guardian|date=April 22, 2013|location=London}} U.S. House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul said he believed that Tsarnaev received training during his trip and became radicalized.{{cite news|url=http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/04/21/house-homeland-security-chairman-believes-suspect-trained-in-russia|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130424000936/http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/04/21/house-homeland-security-chairman-believes-suspect-trained-in-russia/|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 24, 2013|title=House Homeland Security chairman believes suspect trained in Russia|newspaper=CNN|access-date=April 21, 2013|date=April 21, 2013}} In an early report, Dagestan's interior minister Abdurashid Magomedov said through a spokesman that Tsarnaev "did not have contact with the [Islamist] underground during his visit".{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-04-25/boston-investigators-travel-to-russia/4650400|title=Boston investigators travel to Russia|website=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |date=April 25, 2013|access-date=May 6, 2013 |first1=Norman |last1=Hermant |first2=Ben |last2=Knight}}

Tsarnaev's maternal third cousin, Magomed Kartashov, is a figure in Dagestan's Islamist community.Article about the book, Maximum Harm, The Intelligencer, Summer 2017, page 110 Zubeidat confirmed that they "became very close." Kartashov's Islamist organization, "The Union of the Just," advocates Islam as a political system under sharia law. Kartashov later stated the Boston bombing was "good" in that it would increase converts to Islam similarly to the attacks of September 11.{{cite news|url=https://world.time.com/2013/05/08/exclusive-cousin-who-became-close-to-tamerlan-tsarnaev-in-dagestan-is-a-prominent-islamist/|title=Exclusive: Dagestani Relative of Tamerlan Tsarnaev Is a Prominent Islamist|date=May 8, 2013|newspaper=Time|author=Simon Shuster}}

According to media reports, Tsarnaev was seen by Dagestan police, who were conducting surveillance, making six visits to a known Islamic militant in a Salafi mosque in Makhachkala founded by an associate of Ayman Zawahiri.{{cite news |url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/22/the-caucasus-connection.html|title=The Caucasus Connection: At a radical mosque in Dagestan, marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev is remembered by many worshippers—and the secret police |first=Anna|last=Nemtsova|date=April 22, 2013|newspaper=The Daily Beast}}{{cite news|last=Foster|first=Peter |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10008638/Boston-bomber-FBI-dropped-the-ball-over-Tamerlan-Tsarnaev.html|title=Boston bomber: FBI 'dropped the ball' over Tamerlan Tsarnaev|newspaper=Telegraph |access-date=April 22, 2013|location=London|date=April 21, 2013}}{{cite web|url=http://www.wrcbtv.com/story/22034735/charges-likely-sunday-for-boston-marathon-bombing-suspect|title=Charges likely Sunday for Boston Marathon bombing suspect|publisher=WRCBtv|date=April 17, 2013 |access-date=April 22, 2013}}{{cite news |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324059704578473160866108832|title=Dagestan Islamists Were Uneasy About Boston Bombing Suspect|date=May 9, 2013|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|first=Alan|last=Cullison}} According to Russian investigative newspaper Novaya Gazeta, quoting unnamed Russian security sources, Tsarnaev was linked to 23-year-old William Plotnikov, an ethnic Russian-Tatar Islamic militant and Canadian citizen, with whom he communicated via online social networking sites.{{cite news |url=http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/08/20/dagestan|title=The Canadian who converted to jihad: Boxer turned militant killed in Dagestan|first=Stewart|last=Bell|work=National Post|date=August 20, 2012}}[http://www.novayagazeta.ru/inquests/57925.html «Бостонский взрыватель» был давно заряжен – Расследования – Новая Газета] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150413062320/http://www.novayagazeta.ru/inquests/57925.html |date=April 13, 2015 }} {{in lang|ru}} Tsarnaev had also visited Toronto, where Plotnikov lived with his parents.{{cite news|last=Parfitt|first=Tom|url=https://ottawacitizen.com/news/Canadian+boxer+linked+Boston+bomber/8307638/story.html|title=Canadian boxer linked to Boston bomber|newspaper=Ottawa Citizen|date=April 29, 2013|access-date=May 6, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130501083157/http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Canadian+boxer+linked+Boston+bomber/8307638/story.html|archive-date=May 1, 2013}} Once in Dagestan, Tsarnaev is said to have met on several occasions with Makhmud Mansur Nidal, a 19-year-old Dagestani-Palestinian man. Nidal was under close surveillance by Dagestan's anti-extremism unit for six months as a suspected recruiter for Islamist insurgents, before the police killed him in May. According to Novaya Gazeta, Tsarnaev had sought to join the local insurgency, and was put on a period of 'quarantine' – a clearance check by insurgents looking for infiltrating double agents, taking several months for a recruit to be verified. After Tsarnaev's alleged contacts were both killed, he "got frightened and fled". He left Russia in July two days after Plotnikov was killed, in an apparent hurry that Russian authorities considered suspicious, not waiting to pick up his new Russian passport – ostensibly one of his main reasons for coming to Russia.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/29/us/tamerlan-tsarnaevs-contacts-on-russian-trip-draw-scrutiny.html?pagewanted=2&_r=0 |title=Tsarnaev's Contacts on Russian Trip Draw Scrutiny |newspaper=The New York Times |date=April 29, 2013 |access-date=January 28, 2019|last1=Shane |first1=Scott |last2=Herszenhorn |first2=David M. }}{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/10024185/Boston-bombs-the-Canadian-boxer-and-the-terror-recruiter-who-led-Tsarnaev-on-path-to-jihad.html|title=Boston bombs: the Canadian boxer and the terror recruiter who 'led Tsarnaev on path to jihad'|newspaper=Telegraph|access-date=April 29, 2013|location=London|first=Tom|last=Parfitt|date=April 28, 2013}}{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/04/30/russia-tsarnaev-surveillance/2125095|title=Russia had Tamerlan Tsarnaev under surveillance|newspaper=USA Today|date=April 30, 2013 |access-date=May 6, 2013}}{{cite web|first=Caitlin|last=McCormack|url=http://www.heavy.com/news/2013/04/william-plotnikov-5-fast-facts|title=William Plotnikov: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know|publisher=Heavy|date=April 29, 2013|access-date=May 6, 2013}}

In an interview, Tsarnaev's father later said he had to force his son to return to the United States to complete his U.S. citizenship application, after Tsarnaev tried to convince his family to allow him to stay in Dagestan for good.{{cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2013/04/28/boston-bomb-suspects-parents-retreat-to-village-cancel-us-trip-2/|title=Boston bombing suspects' parents abandon travel plans|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=April 28, 2013|access-date=May 6, 2013}}

Tsarnaev returned to the U.S. on July 17, 2012, having grown a long, thick beard{{cite news|last=Mollayev|first=Arsen|url=https://news.yahoo.com/aunt-boston-bombings-suspect-struggled-islam-125631550.html|title=Aunt: Boston Bombings Suspect Struggled with Islam|work=Yahoo! News |agency=Associated Press |date=August 14, 2009|access-date=April 23, 2013}}{{cite news|last=Fox|first=Alison|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324493704578434902549213938|title=Boston Bomb Suspect's Neighbor Describes Friendly Argument on Religion, Politics|newspaper=The Wall Street Journal|access-date=April 21, 2013}} and wearing kohl{{Broken anchor|date=2025-05-25|bot=User:Cewbot/log/20201008/configuration|target_link=Kohl (cosmetics)#Kohl and Islam|reason= The anchor (Kohl and Islam) has been deleted.|diff_id=1163044686}} around his eyes as a sign of his religious devotion to the Sunni of Islam and the example of Muhammad.Sally Jacobs, David Filipov and Patricia Wen. [https://www.bostonglobe.com/Page/Boston/2011-2020/WebGraphics/Metro/BostonGlobe.com/2013/12/15tsarnaev/tsarnaev.html "The Fall of the House of Tsarnaev"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170607221048/http://www.bostonglobe.com/Page/Boston/2011-2020/WebGraphics/Metro/BostonGlobe.com/2013/12/15tsarnaev/tsarnaev.html |date=June 7, 2017 }} The Boston Globe. December 15, 2013 His life took on an "increasingly puritanical religious tone" with "Islamist certainty".{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/bombing-suspects-youtube-account-mirrored-jihadist-conflicts-in-caucasus/2013/04/20/5ca2066e-a9d6-11e2-8302-3c7e0ea97057_story.html|title=Conflict in the Caucasus, reflected in suspect's YouTube playlist|newspaper=The Washington Post |date=April 20, 2013|author1=Will Englund |author2=Peter Finn |name-list-style=amp }} He appeared, to some family members, to have become an "extremist".{{cite news|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/boston-bomb-suspect-alarmed-russian-relatives-extremist-views/story?id=19006449#.UXK9G4ImzmI|title=Boston Bomb Suspect Alarmed Russian Relatives With Extremist Views|date=April 20, 2013|first=Kirit|last=Radia|work=ABC News}}

After his return to the U.S., Tsarnaev created a YouTube channel with playlist links to two videos which were tagged under a category labeled "Terrorists", including one to Dagestani Islamic militant Amir Abu Dujana (Gadzhimurad Dolgatov, also known as 'Robin Hood', a commander of a small group in the Kizilyurt district, who was killed in battle in late December 2012); the videos were later deleted.{{cite news|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/21/us/tamerlan-tsarnaev-timeline|title=Timeline: A look at Tamerlan Tsarnaev's past|website=CNN|date=April 21, 2013|access-date=April 21, 2013}}{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/04/24/the-obscure-russian-jihadist-whom-tamerlan-tsarnaev-followed-online|title=The obscure Russian jihadist whom Tamerlan Tsarnaev followed online|newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=May 6, 2013}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/25/world/europe/boston-bombing-stirs-echoes-of-unrest-in-caucasus.html |title=Boston Bombing Stirs Echoes of Unrest in Caucasus |newspaper=The New York Times |date=April 25, 2013 |access-date=January 28, 2019|last1=Herszenhorn |first1=David M. |last2=Kramer |first2=Andrew E. }}{{cite news|url=http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2013/04/22/what-was-tamerlan-tsarnaev-doing-in-russia|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130423040513/http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2013/04/22/what-was-tamerlan-tsarnaev-doing-in-russia/|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 23, 2013|title=What was Tamerlan Tsarnaev doing in Russia?|website=CNN|date=April 22, 2013|access-date=April 23, 2013}} CNN and the SITE Institute found a screen grab of one of the videos, which featured members of the militant Islamist group Caucasus Emirate from the North Caucasus. He also linked to jihadi videos on YouTube, including ones by radical cleric Feiz Mohammad; in one video, voices can be heard singing in Arabic as bombs explode.{{cite web|title=Parallels Between Boston Bomber And Australian Preacher|url=http://blog.adl.org/international/parallels-between-boston-bomber-and-australian-preacher|publisher=Anti-Defamation League|access-date=April 12, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130517151520/http://blog.adl.org/international/parallels-between-boston-bomber-and-australian-preacher|archive-date=May 17, 2013|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|url=http://newyork.newsday.com/news/nation/suspected-bombers-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-tamerlan-tsarnaev-plot-difficult-for-law-enforcement-to-detect-1.5114258|title=Suspected bombers Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, plot difficult for law enforcement to detect|newspaper=Bloomberg News/Newsday|date=April 21, 2013|access-date=April 21, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130421211113/http://newyork.newsday.com/news/nation/suspected-bombers-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-tamerlan-tsarnaev-plot-difficult-for-law-enforcement-to-detect-1.5114258|archive-date=April 21, 2013|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|url=http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/04/20/fbi-investigated-tamerlan-tsarnaev-for-plans-to-join-underground-groups|title=FBI Probed Tamerlan Tsarnaev For Plans To Join 'Underground Groups'|website=CBS New York|access-date=April 20, 2013}} He frequently read extremist sites, including Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's Inspire online magazine.

Tsarnaev applied for U.S. citizenship on September 5, 2012, but Homeland Security held up the application for "additional review" because they found a record of the 2011 FBI interview of him.{{cite news|last=Preston|first=Julia|title=F.B.I. Interview Led Homeland Security to Hold Up Citizenship for One Brother|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/us/tamerlan-tsarnaevs-citizenship-held-up-by-homeland-security.html?_r=0|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 20, 2013}}

Tsarnaev and his wife were receiving state welfare benefits as late as November 2012, but not at the time of the Marathon Bombings in April 2013. His wife's lawyer said that Tsarnaev was unemployed prior to the bombing and had been helping take care of their daughter, while his wife worked over 70 hours a week as a home health care aide, to support her family.

Tsarnaev was pulled over by police in Boston, Brookline, and Cambridge at least nine times in four years. The source does not state which years these were exactly.{{cite news|last=Curran|first=Kathy|url=http://www.wcvb.com/news/investigative/Marathon-Bombing-suspects-stopped-several-times-by-law-enforcement/-/12520878/19851436/-/rqu1a7/-/index.html#ixzz2RKyeDNML|title=Marathon Bombing suspects stopped several times by law enforcement|website=WCVB|date=April 15, 2013|access-date=April 24, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130422224334/http://www.wcvb.com/news/investigative/Marathon-Bombing-suspects-stopped-several-times-by-law-enforcement/-/12520878/19851436/-/rqu1a7/-/index.html#ixzz2RKyeDNML|archive-date=April 22, 2013}}

In November 2012, Tsarnaev reportedly confronted a shopkeeper at a Middle Eastern grocery store in Cambridge, near a mosque where he sometimes prayed, after seeing a sign there advertising Thanksgiving turkeys. He said "This is kuffar"—an Arabic reference to non-Muslims—"that's not right!". Also in November 2012, Tsarnaev stood up and challenged a sermon in which the speaker said that, just like "we all celebrate the birthday of the Prophet, we can also celebrate July 4 and Thanksgiving," according to Yusufi Vali, a mosque spokesman. Vali said Tsarnaev stated he "took offense to celebrating anything," be it the Prophet's birthday (which not all Muslims celebrate) or American holidays. In January 2013, Tsarnaev again disrupted a Martin Luther King Jr. Day sermon at a mosque in Cambridge. He objected to the speaker's comparison of Muhammad to Martin Luther King Jr. Tsarnaev was shouted down by members of the congregation and was later asked not to return to the mosque unless he was willing to refrain from shouting during sermons. The mosque said Tsarnaev had disrupted a sermon previously.{{cite web |first1=Beth |last1=Daley |first2=Martin |last2=Finucane |url=https://boston.com/metrodesk/2013/04/21/marathon-bombing-suspect-outbursts-had-disturbed-cambridge-mosque-goers/HUM4K1dm5IKWqRRKktFM9L/story.html |title=Marathon bombing suspect disrupted Cambridge mosque on Martin Luther King Day |newspaper=The Boston Globe |date=April 21, 2013}}

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Tamerlan Tsarnaev, along with his brother Dzhokhar, committed the Boston Marathon bombing on April 15, 2013. After the bombing, the brothers murdered MIT police officer Sean Collier.{{cite news|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57581048/police-believe-tsarnaev-brothers-killed-officer-for-his-gun/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130424031222/http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57581048/police-believe-tsarnaev-brothers-killed-officer-for-his-gun/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 24, 2013 |title=Police believe Tsarnaev brothers murdered the police officer for his gun |publisher=CBS News |access-date=July 4, 2013}}{{cite web|author=The Lookout |url=https://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/gunman-reportedly-shoots-police-officer-mit-boston-034906627.html |title=Gunman kills police officer at MIT in Boston | The Lookout – Yahoo News |publisher=News.yahoo.com |date=April 18, 2013 |access-date=February 21, 2014}} While on the run, the brothers carjacked Dun "Danny" Meng on April 18, 2013. Meng was held hostage in his car until he escaped at a gas station.

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In the early hours of April 19, 2013, in Watertown, a suburb of Boston, Tsarnaev was apprehended by police after being shot multiple times.{{cite news|author=Todd Feathers |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/04/25/middlesex-county-prosecutors-building-murder-case-against-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-officer-slaying/PKbh3IdCirTC3sAXb5fo1K/story.html |title=Middlesex County prosecutors building murder case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in officer's slaying – Metro |newspaper=The Boston Globe |date=April 25, 2013 |access-date=July 4, 2013}} The exact sequence of events and key details remain unclear, but the federal indictment substantiated, and witnesses said, that he was struck, pulled into the wheel well, and dragged 20 feet (6 m) by the Mercedes SUV his brother Dzhokhar was driving.{{cite news |last1=Seelye |first1=Katharine Q. |date=March 17, 2015 |title=Police Recall Dodging as Marathon Bombing Suspect Ran over Brother |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/17/us/police-recall-dodging-as-marathon-bombing-suspect-ran-over-brother.html|newspaper=The New York Times|language=en-US|url-status=live|access-date=December 26, 2024|archive-date=March 14, 2024|archive-url=https://archive.today/20240314132617/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/17/us/police-recall-dodging-as-marathon-bombing-suspect-ran-over-brother.html}}

According to paramedic Michael Sullivan, who treated Tamerlan after the shootout, he angrily resisted efforts to treat him as he was being driven to the hospital, lifting himself from the stretcher and screaming loudly.{{cite web |agency=Reuters |title=Dzhokhar Tsarnaev clung to life, while his brother tried to die, court hears |url=https://www.newsweek.com/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-clung-life-while-his-brother-tried-die-court-hears-326793 |website=Newsweek |date=April 29, 2015 |access-date=May 22, 2019}}

He was taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where, despite efforts to revive him, he was pronounced dead from blood loss and cardiac and respiratory arrest.{{cite news|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/2013/04/19/beth-israel-deaconess-medical-staff-tried-revive-suspect-killed-shoot-out/EklhnOS3cRiFmrWSBcje5O/story.html |title=Beth Israel Deaconess medical staff tried to revive suspect killed in shoot-out|newspaper=The Boston Globe |date=April 19, 2013 |access-date=April 22, 2013}}{{cite news |author=Berkowitz |first=Ben |author2=Kerber |first2=Ross |date=April 20, 2013 |title=Boston Marathon bombing investigation turns to motive |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-explosions-boston-shooting-idUSBRE93I0GQ20130420?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=71&google_editors_picks=true |access-date=April 20, 2013 |newspaper=Reuters |location=Boston}} His death certificate gave the cause of death as gunshot wounds to the torso and extremities, as well as blunt trauma to the head and torso.{{cite news |last=Lowery |first=Wesley|title=Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev died from gunshot wounds, blunt trauma, according to death certificate |url=https://www.boston.com/uncategorized/noprimarytagmatch/2013/05/03/boston-marathon-bombing-suspect-tamerlan-tsarnaev-died-from-gunshot-wounds-blunt-trauma-according-to-death-certificate/|publisher=Boston.com|language=en-US|url-status=live|date=May 4, 2013|access-date=December 26, 2024|archive-date=December 26, 2024|archive-url=https://archive.today/20241226192040/https://www.boston.com/uncategorized/noprimarytagmatch/2013/05/03/boston-marathon-bombing-suspect-tamerlan-tsarnaev-died-from-gunshot-wounds-blunt-trauma-according-to-death-certificate/}}

The imam of a prominent Boston mosque, the Islamic Institute of Boston, condemned the violence and refused to give Tsarnaev a Muslim burial.{{cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/20/tamerlan-tsarnaev-funeral-boston-bomber_n_3123798.html|title=Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Suspected Boston Bomber, May Not Get Islamic Funeral From Wary Muslims|newspaper=Huffington Post|date=April 20, 2013|access-date=April 21, 2013|first=Jaweed|last=Kaleem}} His body was released to the funeral service hired by the family at 5:30 pm. EDT May 2, 2013, by the Massachusetts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.{{cite news|title=Remains of Boston bombing suspect claimed|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/02/boston-marathon-bombing-suspect-tamerlan/2130715/?dlvrit=206567|newspaper=USA Today|access-date=May 2, 2013|date=May 2, 2013}}

Tsarnaev's body was moved to a funeral home in North Attleborough; after protesters picketed the building, it was handed over to Graham, Putnam, and Mahoney Funeral Parlor in Worcester.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22409920|title=Burial wrangle for Boston suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev|publisher=Bbc.co.uk|access-date=May 6, 2013|date=May 4, 2013}} Officials in Boston, Cambridge, at a state prison, and in over 120 other U.S. and Canadian locations refused to allow Tsarnaev's body to be buried in their jurisdictions.{{cite news|url=http://bigstory.ap.org/article/conspiracy-suspects-dad-he-not-terrorist|title=Saga of Boston Marathon suspect's body drags on|agency=Associated Press|first=Jay |last=Lindsay |date=May 8, 2013}}

On May 9, Worcester police announced that Tsarnaev's body had been buried in an undisclosed location.{{cite web|title=Police: Deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect buried|url=https://abc7ny.com/archive/9095648/|website =WABC-TV|access-date=May 9, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130622130616/http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news%2Fnational_world&id=9095648|archive-date=June 22, 2013|url-status=live}} It was later reported that Tsarnaev was buried in a small Muslim cemetery, Al-Barzakh Cemetery, in Doswell, Virginia.{{cite news|title=Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is buried in Muslim cemetery in Doswell, Va.|url=https://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2013/05/10/boston-marathon-bombing-suspect-tamerlan-tsarnaev-buried-doswell-virginia-according-two-sources/WJZCb0rTWtLFZTMzKzST4L/story.html|newspaper=The Boston Globe |first1=Wesley |last1=Lowery |first2=Matt |last2=Viser |date=May 10, 2013}} The burial was arranged by Martha Mullen of Richmond, Virginia, who said she was appalled by the protests at the funeral home, which she said "portrayed America at its worst" and wanted to find a way to end the impasse. She contacted Islamic Funeral Services of Virginia, which agreed to provide an unmarked plot in their cemetery. The funeral agency released a statement saying "What Tsarnaev did is between him and God. We strongly disagree with his violent actions, but that does not release us from our obligation to return his body to the earth."[https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/05/10/virginia-woman-who-coordinated-tamerlan-tsarnaev-burial-says-protests-showed-america-its-worst/OHozKZfy2aIOsYgEjULRRN/story.html Woman who coordinated burial was upset by Worcester protests] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180108175031/http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/05/10/virginia-woman-who-coordinated-tamerlan-tsarnaev-burial-says-protests-showed-america-its-worst/OHozKZfy2aIOsYgEjULRRN/story.html |date=January 8, 2018 }}, The Boston Globe, May 10, 2013. Caroline County Sheriff Tony Lippa said the burial was legal.[https://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/11/us/virginia-boston-suspect-burial/index.html Sheriff: Tamerlan Tsarnaev's burial was handled properly] , CNN, May 12, 2013 Locals, as well as the imam of the Virginia Islamic Centre, condemned the secretive burial.{{cite web |url=http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2013/05/10/20812111.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130615210259/http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2013/05/10/20812111.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=June 15, 2013|title=Tamerlan Tsarnaev buried in Virginia|first=Gary |last=Robertson|website=CNews|date=May 10, 2013|access-date=May 15, 2013}}

On June 19, 2013, Tsarnaev's name was read aloud (in the context of a victim of gun violence) during a "No More Names" event held in Concord, New Hampshire. In response, Michael Bloomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns issued a statement explaining that they were using a list compiled by Slate, and apologized, saying that his name was "a mistake" and should have been removed.{{cite web|url=http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/06/uproar-over-group-naming-tsarnaev-a-victim-of-gun-166629.html |title=Uproar over group naming Tsarnaev a victim of gun violence|website=Politico |first=Mackenzie |last=Weinger |date=June 19, 2013 |access-date=June 21, 2013}}

Tsarnaev's parents proclaimed his innocence. Speaking to reporters in Russia, his mother said, "America took my kids away from me. I'm sure my kids were not involved in anything."{{cite news |last=Mong |first=Adrienne |date=April 25, 2013 |title='America took my kids away': Mother of Boston suspects insists sons not responsible |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/america-took-my-kids-away-mother-boston-suspects-insists-sons-flna6c9596881 |access-date=May 1, 2013 |website=NBC News}}

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Ruslan Tsarni is the paternal uncle of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and the brother of Anzor Tsarnaev. He was trained as a lawyer, and moved to Washington State in 1995. He returned to Kyrgyzstan by the end of the decade, and then returned to the United States, settling in Montgomery County, Maryland.

During the manhunt for the brothers, he was interviewed by the FBI. When the media arrived at his home, he denounced the actions of his nephews and called on them to turn themselves in. He also buried the remains of Tsarnaev.

Zubeidat Tsarnaeva is the mother of Tsarnaev and his brother. In photos of her as a younger woman, she wore western-style clothing. After she arrived in the U.S. from Russia in 2002, she took classes at the Catherine Hinds Institute of Esthetics before becoming a state-licensed aesthetician and getting a job at a suburban day spa. After deciding she could no longer work in a business that served men, she started working from home, where clients saw her become more radical and promote 9/11 conspiracy theories.

Tsarnaev's mother has been quoted as saying she urged him to embrace Islam in 2008 because she was concerned about his drinking, smoking, and pursuit of women. She said he began to read more about it on the Internet. She also urged him to quit boxing because Islam prohibits hitting someone in the face.{{cite news|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/fort-hood-shooter-contact-al-qaeda-terrorists-officials/story?id=9030873|author=Esposito, Richard|author2=Matthew Cole|author3=Brian Ross|title=Officials: U.S. Army Told of Hasan's Contacts with al Qaeda; Army Major in Fort Hood Massacre Used 'Electronic Means' to Connect with Terrorists|work=The Blotter from Brian Ross|publisher=ABC News|date=November 9, 2009|access-date=May 11, 2010}} She also praised Russell, saying, "She is a serious, good, American girl who converted to Islam as if she had always been a Muslim. We all love her a lot."

Tsarnaev's mother discussed jihad during a 2011 phone call with him that was taped by a Russian government agency, and intelligence officials also discovered text messages in which she discussed how Tsarnaev was ready to die for Islam. His mother was also recorded suggesting that Tsarnaev go to Palestine.

Both Tsarnaev and his mother were the subject of a Russian Intelligence inquiry to the U.S. government in 2011 because of what the Russians perceived as extremist Islamic views. She was interviewed by the FBI who found nothing to pursue at the time. In late 2011, the CIA put both Tsarnaev and his mother in its Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment database.

Ruslan Tsarni told the AP from his home in Maryland that he believed his former sister-in-law had a "big-time influence" on Tsarnaev's growing embrace of his Muslim faith and decision to quit boxing and school.

In early 2012, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva was arrested for shoplifting $1,624 worth of women's clothing from Lord and Taylor in Natick, Massachusetts. She left the U.S. for Russia and did not appear in court. Anzor and Zubeidat Tsarnaev divorced in 2011 after twenty-five years of marriage. The couple had no personal property or real estate to divide and listed no retirement or pension benefits. They gave the reason for their split as "irretrievable breakdown of the marriage" with "no chance of reconciling our differences". The mother's move toward more Islamic extremism was reportedly a factor in the breakdown of the marriage. They may have reconciled in Dagestan.

She has strongly expressed in TV interviews that her sons are innocent and that they were framed by the FBI.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev's widow, Katherine Russell (a.k.a. Karima Tsarnaeva{{cite news |url=https://www.cnn.com/2015/05/01/us/tsarnaev-13th-juror-sentencing-trial/index.html |first=Ann |last=O'Neil |work=CNN |date=May 1, 2015 |access-date=February 4, 2021 |title=The Dzhokhar Tsarnaev that the defense wants you to know}} or Katherine Tsarnaeva), was born on February 6, 1989, in Texas. She was raised in Rhode Island; her father is an emergency room doctor and her mother is a nurse. Their home has been described as nominally Christian and Russell reportedly was not religious "at all" in high school. She attended North Kingstown High School, and graduated in 2007. Her yearbook entry lists her plans as college and the Peace Corps. She was remembered for her talent in painting and drawing.

Tsarnaev and Russell met in 2007 in a nightclub, soon after she started as a communications major at Suffolk University. They started dating on and off, and at one point in 2009, Tsarnaev was living with another woman. Tamerlan was known to cheat on Russell, and a friend of Russell's told her mother that the relationship was abusive. Russell's mother did not like Tamerlan from the first time she met him. At Tsarnaev's insistence, Russell converted to Islam in 2008, adopted the hijab, and chose the name Karima after her conversion.

Russell dropped out of college in the Spring of 2010 after she became pregnant in her junior year, and the couple married on June 21, 2010, in a 15-minute ceremony in a Dorchester mosque. According to the officiant, it was Russell who called and made the arrangements. Only two witnesses attended the wedding.

She moved into her husband's apartment in Cambridge and gave birth to their daughter Zahara in late 2010. At times, she worked as a home health aide. From September 2011 to November 2012, she and her husband had their income supplemented by public assistance and food stamps. When Tsarnaev was in Russia for six months, she and their daughter stayed in Cambridge.

At the time of the bombings on April 15, 2013, Russell was living with her husband and daughter in the Norfolk Street family home in Cambridge. The younger brother also officially lived there, but in practice stayed in a dorm at UMass Dartmouth.

After her husband's death, Russell retreated to her parents' home in Rhode Island. Her parents released a statement saying "[o]ur daughter has lost her husband today, the father of her child. We cannot begin to comprehend how this horrible tragedy occurred. In the aftermath of the Patriots' Day horror, we know that we never really knew Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Our hearts are sickened by the knowledge of the horror he has inflicted." She refused to take custody of her husband's remains and reverted to using her maiden name.

Investigators found bomb-making instructions, downloaded from Inspire magazine, on Russell's computer. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told the FBI that he and his brother had learned to make bombs by reading Inspire, but it was not clear who downloaded the files. Her web history included searches for "If your husband becomes a shahid, what are the rewards for you?" and "the rewards for the wife of Mujahedeen." The FBI collected Russell's DNA{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/30/us/tsarnaev-wife-katherine-russell-scrutinized-by-authorities.html|title=Investigators Obtain DNA From Widow of Bombing Suspect|last1=Schmitt|first1=Michael S.|date=April 29, 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|last2=Kovaleski|first2=Serge F.}} after female DNA was found on bomb fragments;{{cite web|url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323798104578453190708251284.html|title=Female DNA Found on Bomb in Boston|last1=Perez|first1=Evan|last2=Cullison|first2=Alan|last3=Barrett|first3=Devlin|date=April 29, 2013|work=The Wall Street Journal|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130501002802/http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323798104578453190708251284.html|archive-date=May 1, 2013}} neither her DNA nor her fingerprints matched those on the bombs.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/03/us/Boston-bombing-suspects-planned-july-fourth-attack.html?pagewanted=all|title=Boston Plotters Said to Initially Target July 4 for Attack|last1=Schmitt|first1=Eric|date=May 2, 2013|newspaper=The New York Times |last2=Mazzetti|first2=Mark|last3=Schmidt|first3=Michael S.|last4=Shane|first4=Scott}}

No charges were filed against Russell and "there's been no suggestion at all by the government that she's going to be indicted," according to her lawyer, Amato DeLuca.{{cite news|url= https://news.wgbh.org/post/widow-tsarnaev-what-if-any-relationship-did-she-have-boston-marathon-bombings|title=The Widow Tsarnaev: What – If Any – Relationship Did She Have To The Boston Marathon Bombings?|first=Phillip|last= Martin|work=WGBH News|date=June 12, 2015|access-date=June 16, 2015}} He insisted that Russell was not aware of her husband's criminal activity, and said she has since "provided them [the FBI] with a lot of information, many, many, many many hours. I don't know what else she could have done."

{{As of|2015|06|12|df=US}}, she lived on "a quiet street in New Jersey" with her daughter.

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| title = Texts From Tamerlan Tsarnaev's Widow Revealed

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