A man who said he was an uncle of the two suspects in the Boston bombings, spoke to CNN on Friday morning. He said the brothers Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev grew up in Kyrgyzstan and have been in the U.S. for about 7 or 8 years. He said he was told by his sister-in-law in the morning that Tamerlan was shot and killed.
Dzhokhara Tsarnaev is reportedly still at large and believed to be armed and dangerous. Boston is on lockdown in search for him.
“I’m sorry too — if he did this, I’m sorry,” the uncle told CNN. “It’s crazy. It’s not possible. I can’t believe it.”
He said he was in disbelief when he found out they were suspects while watching the news.
Bloomberg News also reported that the FBI was in Maryland at the uncle’s house to question him.
Correction: This post incorrectly identified the suspects’ uncle as Ruslan Tsarni, which happens to be the name of a second uncle who lives in Maryland. The identity of the uncle quoted above is not yet known.
