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Dzhokhar "Jahar" Anzorovich Tsarnaev (born July 22, ) is an American terrorist of Chechen and Avar descent who perpetrated the Boston Marathon bombing. On April 15, , Tsarnaev and his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, planted pressure cooker bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The bombs detonated, killing three people and. On April 15, , Tsarnaev and his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev , planted pressure cooker bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
The bombs detonated, killing three people and injuring others. During an ensuing shootout with police, Dzhokhar was injured and Tamerlan died. A Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Police officer was critically injured in the course of the Tsarnaevs' escape.
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On the evening of April 19, after thousands of police officers conducted a manhunt in Watertown, Massachusetts , Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was located hiding in a boat in the backyard of a resident, was shot, and was taken into custody. He has said that his crimes were inspired, in part, by Anwar al-Awlaki. Tsarnaev was tried and convicted of 30 counts and was sentenced to death. His death sentence was vacated on appeal in July , but the U.
Supreme Court reversed that decision in March His older brother, Tamerlan, was born on October 21, Tsarnaev spent the first years of his life in Kyrgyzstan. The family "was in constant transition" for the next decade. In March , the family was granted legal permanent residence. Tamerlan was unable to naturalize expeditiously because an investigation against him held up the citizenship process. In , he contacted Brian Glyn Williams , a professor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth , who taught a class about Chechen history , expressing his interest in the topic.
Tsarnaev enrolled at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in September He majored in marine biology with the intent on becoming a director but later changed to nursing. Tsarnaev was described as "normal" and popular by some fellow students. Others described him as "creepy.
Where Is Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Now?
He was 'us'. He was Cambridge. On the Russian-language social-networking site VK , Tsarnaev described his "world view" as "Islam" and his personal priorities as "career and money". According to The Economist , he seemed "to have been much more concerned with sport and cheeseburgers than with religion, at least judging by his Twitter feed"; [ 50 ] however, according to The Boston Globe , on the day of the Boston Marathon, a year before the bombings, a post on Tsarnaev's Twitter feed mentioned a Quran verse often used by radical Muslim clerics and propagandists.
In , Arlington Police ran a warrant check on Tsarnaev and checked his green Honda when they were investigating a report of underage drinking at a party in Arlington Heights.
At p. Tsarnaev continued to tweet after the bombings, and sent a tweet telling the people of Boston to "stay safe". During that time, he used the college gym and slept in his dorm; his friends said that he partied with them after the attacks and looked "relaxed". Hours after the FBI released photos of the two suspects in the bombing, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev visited their family's apartment in Cambridge.
There, they obtained five improvised explosive devices IEDs , ammunition, a semiautomatic handgun, and a machete. The two brothers then drove to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. On April 18, , at p. Collier died from his injuries. The brothers then traveled to the Boston neighborhood of Allston. There, the brothers carjacked an SUV and robbed its owner, [ 64 ] Dun Meng, who said he managed to escape when the Tsarnaevs became momentarily distracted in the process of refueling the car at a cash-only gas station.
Police were then able to track the location of the car through Meng's cellphone and the SUV's anti-theft tracking device. In the early hours of April 19, police found the brothers and a shootout ensued in Watertown. During the gunfight in which bombs were thrown at responding officers , Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was wounded and Tamerlan was shot a number of times. Dzhokhar escaped by driving the stolen SUV toward the officers who were arresting his brother, and drove over Tamerlan Tsarnaev, dragging him under the SUV about 30 feet 9 m in the process.
Tamerlan later died at a nearby hospital. Images of squad cars and large black armored vehicles crowding the side streets, as well as videos of residents being led out of their homes at gunpoint, soon flooded social media. The Boston metro area was effectively shut down all day on April After Tsarnaev's name was published in connection with the bombings, his uncle Ruslan Tsarni, who lives in Montgomery Village, Maryland , pleaded with Tsarnaev through television to turn himself in "and ask for forgiveness", and said that he had shamed the family and the Chechen ethnicity.
When the " shelter in place " order was lifted, he went outside to investigate. Tsarnaev's presence and movements were verified through a forward looking infrared thermal imaging device in a State Police helicopter.