Here’s the background on the Tsarnaev Brothers:
Suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing appeared to embody the best of the American immigrant experience: two brothers who came from southern Russia, near war-torn Chechnya, more than five years ago, and assimilated through school and sports into the Greater Boston community and culture.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, the alleged bomber pictured in a dark hat in FBI videos released Thursday, was a talented boxer with hopes of joining the US Olympic team, people who knew him said. He was reportedly killed overnight in a shoot-out with police.
His brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, the suspect seen in FBI photos in a white cap, is a student at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, the school confirmed. He was an all-star wrestler and a member of the class of 2011 at Cambridge Rindge & Latin School, and won a Cambridge City Scholarship that year. He was on the run Friday morning and the target of an unprecedented manhunt in Greater Boston.
But within the brothers’ ordinariness, there were also subtle signs of alienation.
I’m just absorbing all of the new information after getting some sleep, but it appears as if we don’t have a motive yet, though I’m sure Alex Jones is already saying they’re MK/Ultra operatives who guzzled too many juice boxes and subsequently flipped out.