The two suspects in the Boston Marathon Bombing case are reportedly two brothers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, from the Russian Caucasus who moved to the United States several years ago from Kazakhstan.
One of the brothers, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, died in a hospital overnight following a shootout with police. Explosives and an explosive triggering device were reportedly found on his body.
There are also reports that a message on a social media site was posted under the suspect's name with the message, 'I don't have a single American friend. I don't understand them."
Tsarnaev was an engineering student at Bunker Hill Community College before taking a year off from his studies to train as a boxer.
And while investigators have yet to determine a motive in the attack, there has been unconfirmed speculation circulating that the brothers shared radical views based on the fact that they are supposedly from the Russian Caucasus. At this time, however, the suspects' motives have not been identified.
A spokesman for Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov said that the two suspects have not been associated with the Chechen Republic for quite some time, CNN reports.
"According to preliminary information, coming from the relevant agencies, the Tsarnaev family moved many years ago out of Chechnya to another Russia region," press secretary Alvi Kamirov told Interfax.
"After that they lived for some time in Kazakhstan, and from there went to the U.S. where the family members received a residence permit. Therefore the individuals concerned did not live as adults in Chechnya."
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, is still at large and the target of a manhunt being executed by 9,000 law enforcement personnel---CNN reports.
Tsarvaev's high school friend Eric Machado said that he was stunned by the news involving his former classmate.
"We hung out; we partied; we were good high school friends," Machado said.
"We're all, like, in shock. We don't really understand. There were no telltale signs of any kind of malicious behavior from Dzhokhar. It's all coming as a shock, really."
Machado also said that he lived near Dzhokhar who he says attended the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
"To think that he's capable of something like this is beyond belief," Machado said.
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