Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

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Video Shows Tsarnaevs Working Out Before Bombing

Tamerlan, Dzhokhar went to gym 3 days before attack

(Newser) - CNN has video that manages to come off as mundane and chilling at the same time—the Tsarnaev brothers getting in shape at a local gym three days before the Boston Marathon bombing. One thing of note: The gym manager says he was surprised to see Tamerlan show up...

Tsarnaev Friend Attacked FBI Agent as He Read Text
FBI Agent Distracted by Text When Tsarnaev Pal Lunged
officials say
May 31, 2013 7:58 AM CDT

FBI Agent Distracted by Text When Tsarnaev Pal Lunged

Officials reveal new details in Ibragim Todashev shooting

(Newser) - The details surrounding the shooting of Ibragim Todashev , friend of Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, continue to be tweaked: Though officials said yesterday that Todashev was unarmed when he was shot, today a slightly different version of the story is emerging:
  • The New York Times reports that Todashev first knocked
...

Tsarnaevs' Mom: Dzhokhar Says They're Innocent

Boston bombing suspect able to walk again, says mother

(Newser) - The Tsarnaev brothers' mother is providing more details of her first conversation with Dzhokhar post-arrest. He told his parents that he and Tamerlan weren't involved in the Boston bombings, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva notes. Though he said his health was improving—he's been able to walk again—and he has...

Dzhokhar Tells Mother: 'I Am Absolutely Fine'

Boston suspect tells her by phone that his 'wounds are healing'

(Newser) - The mother of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev spoke to her son for the first time since the Boston Marathon bombings, and she recounts to Bloomberg the salient line:
  • “He said: ‘I am absolutely fine, my wounds are healing. Everything is in God’s hands. Be patient. Everything will be fine.
...

Prison Ordered to Give Files to Tsarnaev Lawyers

Defense wants evidence of his state during interrogations

(Newser) - Prison files on Dzhokhar Tsarnaev—including suicide watch logs—are to be turned over to the Boston bombing suspect's lawyers by order of a federal judge, Reuters reports. His defense team says it wants to track his condition while he is in prison for evidence of "voluntariness of...

Rough Day for Russia: 2 Brushes With Terror

Bombing kills 3 in Dagestan, terror plot averted in Moscow

(Newser) - A powerful explosion killed three people and wounded 40 more today in Dagestan, the region that was once home to Boston Marathon bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, reports Reuters . Police had found a bomb in a car outside a law enforcement building in the region's capital city of...

What It Was Like to Care for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Inside 9 nurses' very tough 6 days with the suspected bomber

(Newser) - Nine trauma nurses at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center were asked to care for suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev—and though many were uncomfortable with the idea, all of them agreed. The Boston Globe walks us through the six days they spent with Tsarnaev, from the four checkpoints they...

Tsarnaev Wrote Confession on Wall of Boat: Report

He said he didn't mourn Tamerlan, because he was a martyr in paradise

(Newser) - As he lay wounded in a boat in a Watertown backyard, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev scribbled a note on the vessel's wall claiming culpability for the Boston bombing and explaining his motive, sources tell CBS News correspondent John Miller. Tsarnaev allegedly wrote that the attack was in retaliation for the US...

Dzhokhar Investigation Turns Up ... Not Much

All red flags are tied to Tamerlan Tsarnaev, not his brother

(Newser) - Had counterterrorism officials been monitoring Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the days leading up to the Boston marathon bombing, they wouldn't have found much to raise suspicions—other than Dzhokhar's relationship to Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Authorities have found no evidence that Dzhokhar frequented jihadist websites, bought suspicious items, posted radical rhetoric,...

Forensics May Link Both Tsarnaevs to 2011 Murders

Sources tell ABC the evidence is mounting

(Newser) - One of the separate storylines that emerged after the Boston bombings is that police were looking at Tamerlan Tsarnaev as a possible suspect in a grisly triple-murder involving one of his old boxing friends in 2011. (On Sept. 11 of that year, as a matter of fact.) So how...

Dzhokhar: Tamerlan's Wife Played No Role in Attacks

Katherine Russell hires top lawyer

(Newser) - Dzhokhar Tsarnaev spoke with investigators about his brother's widow , telling them she didn't have a hand in the Boston Marathon plot, an official tells USA Today . Tsarnaev reportedly discussed Katherine Russell with authorities days after the attacks. Meanwhile, Russell has bolstered her legal team with a leading New...

Tamerlan's Widow Still Under Scrutiny

Investigators find radical material on her laptop

(Newser) - Investigators say DNA found on a fragment of one of the Boston bombs is not a match with samples taken from the widow of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, reports NBC News . But that doesn't mean 24-year-old Katherine Russell is in the clear. In fact, authorities are "sharpening" their investigation of...

Tamerlan's Cause of Death Revealed

Funeral home owner reads from death certificate

(Newser) - The death certificate of Tamerlan Tsarnaev apparently will hold no surprises. While Massachusetts officials have yet to release it publicly, the owner of the Worcester funeral home with his body said it lists the cause of death as "gunshot wounds of torso and extremities" and "blunt trauma to...

Boston Suspects First Planned Attack for July 4

But they built their bombs too fast: reports

(Newser) - Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told investigators that he and his brother originally planned their attack for July 4th—but they built their bombs so quickly that they moved the mission up to the day of the Boston Marathon, reports outlets including the New York Times , Boston Globe , and CBS News . All of...

Family Claims Body of Tamerlan
Family
Claims Body
of Tamerlan
May 2, 2013 6:49 PM CDT

Family Claims Body of Tamerlan

He called wife before his death; FBI examines laptop

(Newser) - The family of Tamerlan Tsarnaev—or at least the funeral home it hired—claimed his body from Massachusetts officials today, reports AP . Widow Katherine Russell agreed earlier this week to release it to his side of the family. It's not clear yet where Tamerlan will be buried, though the...

Why I Broke Up With Dzhokhar
 Why I Broke Up With Dzhokhar 
May 2, 2013 9:02 AM CDT

Why I Broke Up With Dzhokhar

Nothing sinister, he was just a 'hands-y teenaged boy': ex

(Newser) - Dzhokhar Tsarnaev certainly didn't seem like a devout Muslim to a woman who had what she calls a "fleeting fling" with him at UMass-Dartmouth. Though she describes herself as being "very forward" ("I walked right up to him and I was like, 'Oh my God,...

How Dzhokhar's Friends Learned the Truth: FBI

Tsarnaev's reply to suspicions: 'LOL'

(Newser) - An FBI affidavit sheds light on how Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's newly arrested friends allegedly discovered his involvement in the Boston bombings—and how they hid the evidence. About a month before the bombings, Tsarnaev had told classmates Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov that he'd learned how to make a...

Feds Detain 3 More in Boston Bombing
 3 Students Arrested 
 in Boston Bombing 
UPDATED
May 1, 2013 1:56 PM CDT

3 Students Arrested in Boston Bombing

And taken into custody by federal authorities

(Newser) - Federal authorities arrested three 19-year-old college students today in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings, the Boston Globe reports. Two, Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev of New Bedford, have been charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice for allegedly helping Dzhokhar Tsarnaev dispose of a laptop and a backpack full of...

Carjacking Victim: Dzhokhar Asked Only One Question

How much was this Mercedes?

(Newser) - As the Boston carjacking victim known only as "Danny" continues to recount his story of what happened during his encounter with the Tsarnaev brothers, CNN has what might be the strangest detail of all. Danny says that while Tamerlan made threats, blustered about his hatred of Americans, and generally...

Widow Releases Tamerlan's Body

Family will claim it

(Newser) - The chief medical examiner's office in Massachusetts is ready to release the body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his family will be claiming it, not his widow. A lawyer for Katherine Russell says she wants the body of the Boston Marathon suspect released to his family, who have agreed to...

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