Funeral home owner Peter Stefan has 26-year-old Tsarnaev’s body and read details from his death certificate. The certificate cites Tsarnaev’s “gunshot wounds of torso and extremities” and lists the time of his death as 1:35 a.m. on April 19, four days after the deadly bombing.
Tsarnaev died after a gunfight with authorities who, hours earlier, had launched a massive manhunt for him and his brother. Police have said he ran out of ammunition before his younger brother dragged his body under a vehicle while fleeing.
Tsarnaev’s family, ethnic Chechens from Russia who lived in the U.S. for about a decade, was making arrangements on Friday for his funeral as investigators searched the woods near a college attended by 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was captured less than a day after his brother’s death.
The funeral parlour is familiar with Muslim services and said it will handle arrangements for Tamerlan Tsarnaev, whose body was released by the state medical examiner Thursday.
The body initially was taken to another funeral home, where it was greeted by about 20 protesters.
Stefan, owner of Graham Putnam and Mahoney Funeral Parlors, said everybody deserves a dignified burial service, no matter the circumstances of his or her death, and he is prepared for protests.
“My problem here is trying to find a gravesite. A lot of people don’t want to do it. They don’t want to be involved with this,” said Stefan.
Meanwhile, two U.S. officials said Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told interrogators that he and his brother initially considered setting off their bombs on the Fourth of July, the American Independence day.
The brothers decided to carry out the attack before Independence Day when they finished assembling the bombs, the surviving suspect told interrogators after he was arrested, according to two U.S. officials briefed on the investigation. It does not appear the brothers ever had big, definitive plans, they said.
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Source: thestar.com
Author: Steve Leblanc and Bob Salsberg
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