AP Photo/FBIMarathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, left, was shot and killed by police and his brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, remained on the loose Friday.
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April 19, 2013
[+] Enlarge AP Photo/FBIMarathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, left, was shot and killed by police and his brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, remained on the loose Friday.
DEVELOPING: The brothers behind Monday's deadly bombing at the Boston Marathon are believed to have come to the U.S. from Chechnya as long as a decade ago, but apparently never fit in with the American culture.
"I don't have a single American friend, I don't understand them," the older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed in a shootout with police hours after the pair was identified as suspects, told a photographer in 2009.
What drove him and his brother, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, who lived with him in Cambridge, Mass., to perpetrate the deadly attack, which killed three and injured 176, is not clear. They are believed to be Muslim and to have had military training overseas.
The suspects were identified by law enforcement officials and a family member as Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, brothers from a Russian region near Chechnya, which has been plagued by an Islamic insurgency that has carried out deadly bombings. They lived near Boston and had been in the U.S. for about a decade, an uncle said.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, a 26-year-old who had been known to the FBI as Suspect No. 1 and was seen in surveillance footage in a black baseball cap, was killed overnight, officials said. His 19-year-old brother -- dubbed Suspect No. 2 and seen wearing a white, backward baseball cap in the images from Monday's deadly bombing at the marathon finish line -- escaped...
"We believe this man to be a terrorist," said Boston Police commissioner Ed Davis, who urged all nearby residents to stay in their homes unless police are present. "We believe this to be a man who's come here to kill people..."
...The men's uncle, Ruslan Tsarni of Montgomery Village, Md., told The Associated Press that the men traveled here together from the Russian region near Chechnya.
Their father, Anzor Tsarnaev, said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press from the Russian city of Makhachkala that his younger son, Dzhokhar, is "a true angel."
"Dzhokhar is a second-year medical student in the U.S. He is such an intelligent boy. We expected him to come on holidays here," the father said.
According to multiple media reports, Tamerlan Tsarnaev had at one time attended Bunker Hill Community College but had taken time off to train as a boxer for a Golden Gloves competition in Salt Lake City, Utah. He had won a number of amateur regional title bouts, according to multiple media outlets, and had hopes of boxing for the U.S. Olympic team.
Larry Aaronson, a former teacher at Cambridge Rindge and Latin, told The Boston Globe that he knew Dzhokhar.
"If someone were to ask me what the kid was like, I would say he had a heart of gold," he said. "He was as gracious as possible."
While his younger brother was described as someone who fit in and was friendly, Tamerlan Dzhokhar wrote in a photo essay, "I don't have a single American friend. I don't understand them."
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Boston Under Curfew
Authorities chasing a Chechnyan terrorist in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings.
Arutz Sheva staff
One Boston marathon bombing suspect has been shot dead, while another, believed to be "armed and dangerous", is being chased by police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Authorities told Boston-area residents to stay in their homes, Friday morning.
One police officer was also shot dead and a second wounded during the late night operation in Watertown, near Boston, authorities said.
Police forces sealed off much of the town as they killed one suspect and continue to hunt for the other, according to reports.
State Police announced in the early hours of the morning that they would be going "door to door, street by street, in and around Watertown." They warned residents to stay inside and not answer the door unless the person is clearly identified as a law-enforcement officer, The Boston Globe reported.
The incident follows reports that a gunman shot and killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer on Thursday in an eruption of gunfire at the prestigious university.
The university said the situation was "extremely dangerous" and warned students in an emergency alert on its website to stay indoors, adding that one building on campus had been surrounded by police.
Massachusetts State Police spokesman David Procopio said early Friday that the violent events at MIT and Watertown appeared to be connected, and that federal authorities were investigating whether the violence of Thursday night and Friday was connected to the marathon bombings, earlier in the week, according to The Globe.
Authorities made no comment on whether there was a link between the manhunt and Monday's bombing in which three people were killed and about 180 injured.
However the operation came only hours after the Federal Bureau of Investigation released photos of the suspects they believe planted the bombs.
A second police officer was wounded in a gunfight in the town, they added.
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MIM: We now know that the police officer was murdered by the terrorists who are Muslim brothers from Chechnya. As of this writing one is dead and one is being pursued by law enforcement while Boston remains on lockdown. The hunt for the one remaining jihadist has also lead to Silver Springs, Maryland.
Gunman Kills Police Officer at Prestigious Boston UniversityArutz Sheva staff
A gunman shot and killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer in an eruption of gunfire at the prestigious university, Boston television stations reported.
The university said the situation was "extremely dangerous" and warned students in an emergency alert on its website to stay indoors, adding that one building on campus had been surrounded by police.
The Massachusetts district attorney's office confirmed the killing and said it was investigating, the AFP news agency reported.
MIT is in the suburbs of Boston, where two bombs at the city's marathon on Monday killed three people and injured 180. However, no link between the two incidents has been immediately established
The university alert said the gunshots started at 10:48pm (0248 GMT) and that the building where the shots were fired had been "surrounded by responding agencies."
"The area is cordoned off. Please stay clear of area until further notice," added the alert.
There was a major police presence in the district including officers with rifles and a search helicopter overhead, according to news reports.
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