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Tamerlan Tsarnaev
Born	Tamerlan Tsarnaev October 21, 1986 North Caucasus, Russian SFSR , Soviet Union
Died	April 19, 2013(2013-04-19) (aged 26) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S
Cause of death	Gunshot
Details
Location(s)	Boston Marathon
Killed	4 (with brother)
Injured	185 {with brother)
Weapons	Pressure cooker bomb

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (Template:Lang-ru, born 22 July 1993) and Tamerlan Tsarnaev (Template:Lang-ru, October 21, 1986 – April 19, 2013) are the main suspects in the April 2013 Boston Marathon bombings.

Common background

The brothers are ethnic Chechens who were born in the North Caucasus. Their parents also have two daughters. The entire Tsarnaev family, including both brothers, immigrated in 2002 to the United States. In the U.S. they applied for refugee status and settled in Massachusetts, with Tamerlan living in Cambridge, for the past ten years. They had previously lived in Tokmok, Kyrgyzstan, and Makhachkala, Dagestan. Both brothers are Muslims.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev

Tamerlan Tsarnaev was born in the Russian SFSR in the Soviet Union. After arriving to the United States in 2002, he attended Bunker Hill Community College with hopes of becoming an engineer. An aspiring talented boxer, he dropped out of school to concentrate on his sport, training at the Wai Kru Mixed Martial Arts Center, a Lowell club. In 2010 he was the New England Golden Gloves heavyweight champion and won the Rocky Marciano Trophy. 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 declared 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", though stating that he "didn’t understand" Americans and had no American friends. He was arrested in 2009 for domestic assault and battery after allegedly assaulting his girlfriend. He was a permanent resident but not a citizen of the United States. He was married to a U.S. citizen who converted from Christianity to Islam to marry him. The couple have a 3-year old daughter.

Tsarnaev was killed during a massive manhunt launched in the early hours of April 19. During the morning of April 19, Tamerlan Tsarnaev was taken by police to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he died of multiple gunshot wounds and a possible blast injury.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was injured and taken into federal custody following a standoff on the evening of April 19, 2013. At the time of the incident, he was a student at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, with a major in marine biology. He was also an avid wrestler and part of the all-star wrestling team at his school. Born in Kyrgyzstan, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen on September 11, 2012. On television, his uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, living in Montgomery Village, Maryland, pleaded with Dzhokhar to turn himself in.

References

1. ^ Abad-Santos, Alexander (April 19, 2013). "Who Is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Man at the Center of the Boston Manhunt?". The Atlantic. Retrieved April 19, 2013.
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8. Kaleem, Jaweed (April 19, 2013). "Boston Bombing Suspects' Muslim Identity Provides Few Clues To Motivation For Bombing". Huffington Post. Retrieved April 19, 2013.
9. Noronha, Charmaine (April 19, 2013). "Aunt says US suspect recently became devout Muslim". Huffington Post. Retrieved April 19, 2013.
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11. ^ Hirn, Johannes (2010), "Will box for Passport: An Olympic Drive to become a United States citizen" (PDF), The Comment Graduate Students Magazine of Boston University's College of Communications, retrieved April 20, 2013 {{citation}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |newspaper= (help)
12. ^ Burke, Thimothy (April 19), "Everything we know about Tamerlan Tsarnaev, dead bombing suspect", Deadspin, retrieved April 20, 2013 {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= and |year= / |date= mismatch (help)
13. ^ Kenner, David (April 19, 2013). "Who Is Tamerlan Tsarnaev". Foreign Policy. Retrieved April 19, 2013.
14. ^ Nathan, Sara; Bates, Daniel (April 19, 2013). "'Our hearts are sickened by the horror he inflicted': Shocked family of All-American girl who converted to Islam to marry Boston bomber say tragedy proves 'we never really knew him'". The Daily Mail. Retrieved April 20, 2013. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |work= (help)
15. Sullivan, Eileen; Barr, Meghan; Zezima, Katie (April 19, 2013). "Boston Bombing Suspect ID'ed as Cambridge Man". WGGB-TV. Associated Press. Retrieved April 19, 2013.
16. "Bombing suspect surrounded in Watertown". The Lowell Sun. Retrieved April 20, 2013.
17. "Shots Fired In Watertown (Update: Police Have Suspect In Custody)". Mediaite. Retrieved April 20, 2013.
18. "Bombing suspect attended UMass Dartmouth, prompting school closure; college friend shocked by charge he is Boston Marathon bomber". Boston.
19. "Boston Marathon bombers: suspect Dzhozkar Tsarnaev's uncle Ruslan Tsarni pleads 'turn yourself in'". The Telegraph. UK: Telegraph Media. Associated Press. April 19, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2013.

• American people of Chechen descent
• American Muslims
• 1986 births
• 1993 births
• Sibling duos