What is known so far
Authorities are now confirming the two suspects sought in Monday's Boston Marathon bombing are two Russian-born Chechen brothers, Tamerlan (26yo) and Dzhokhar A. (19yo) Tsarnaev. Tamerlan, the older brother, is dead.
We know Tamerlan Tsarnaev was 26 and a competitive boxer for a club named Team Lowell, who won the Rocky Marciano Trophy for being New England Golden Gloves heavyweight champion in 2010. He did this while taking time off from school at Bunker Hill Community College, where he studied in hopes of being an engineer. He's been boxing in the U.S. since at least 2004, and that he arrived in the United States in 2000.
The Lowell Sun wrote this about his bout at the Golden Gloves nationals in 2009:
In Team New England's last bout of the night, Tamerlan Tsarnaev dropped a controversial decision to Lamar Fenner of Chicago in the 201-pound devision.
After flooring Fenner with a huge punch that required an eight count, it seemed that Tsarnaev was in control of the whole fight.
Yet somehow the judges saw it differently and awarded Fenner the decision, a decision that drew boos from the crowd.
Team New England finished the first day of action with two wins and two losses.
We know he had a YouTube profile
http://www.youtube.com/user/muazseyfullah/videos?view=0, where he created a playlist dedicated to terrorism. The photo gallery features his girlfriend at the time, and the caption reads:
Tamerlan says his girlfriend is half Portuguese, half Italian girlfriend and converted to Islam: "She's beautiful, man!"
Tamerlan fled Chechnya with his family because of the conflict in the early 90s, and lived for years in Kazakhstan before getting to the United States as a refugee for at least a decade ago. Tamerlan became a permanent legal resident in the US in 2007.
Dzhokhar A. (19yo) Tsarnaev is till at large. A notable fact in 2011, the City of Cambridge awarded "Dzhokhar Tsarnaev" a $2,500 scholarship. Only in America
