A week after the deadly Boston Marathons bombings reintroduced terror into the lives of ordinary Americans, the first victim’s funeral was held in a quiet Boston suburb, and investigators weighed how and when to file criminal charges against the lone surviving suspect.
Krystle Campbell was eulogized by family and friends at a church in her hometown of Medford, Mass. Later in the day, a statewide moment of silence, followed by the ringing of bells, will mark the one-week anniversary of the finish-line blasts.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — the 19-year-old college student from Cambridge, Mass. who is suspected of carrying out the bombing along with his older brother — remained under guard at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, in critical but stable condition.
The full extent of Tsarnaev’s injuries, and whether he sustained them in a gun battle with police early Friday, remain unclear. He has a gunshot wound to the neck, Boston police said Sunday, and federal and local officials say they do not know whether he will be able to talk again.
Tsarnaev’s brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan, was killed in the confrontation with police. Authorities are eager to question the younger Tsarnaev about his and his brother’s alleged motives in the bombing, which killed three people and injured more than 170.
They also want to find out from him whether any international or domestic terrorist groups were involved. Islamist separatists in the Russian province of Dagestan — where the brothers spent part of their childhoods and where Tamerlan Tsarnaev visited last year — on Sunday denied any connection to the bombing. Boston’s mayor and police commissioner said Sunday that the brothers appear to have acted alone.
In Dagestan, relatives of said Tamerlan Tsarnaev had spent seven months in the region last year, and had become increasingly religious over the last three years but was not a radical.
“He was inquisitive and interested in religion,” his aunt, Patimat Suleimanova told Russia RT channel in an interview broadcast Monday, “but he was never a fanatic.”
Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s YouTube account and Internet activity, however, had become militant enough to draw attention from the Russian security services.
Suleimanova said Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had planned to visit Makhachkala, the Dagestani city where the brothers’ parents now live, in May. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev graduated from Cambridge Rindge & Latin High School in 2011, and was enrolled at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
“They missed their parents,” Patimat Suleimanova said in the Russian television interview. “They said ‘Mother, we love you, we are OK, we only miss you.’ Those children adored their mother and father, they knew that paradise is at the mother’s feet.”
She said Tamerlan visited her often during his days in Dagestan. “Tamerlan was very soft and kind,” she said. “When I hugged him I felt such warmth.”
Over the weekend, the Tsaraevs’ father, Anzor, said Tamerlan had visited Dagestan to renew his passport.
Russia’s Federal Migration Service (FMS) told the Interfax news agency that he filed an application for a replacement of the domestic passport Russians carry in July 2012, saying he had lost his in Boston.
Krystle Campbell was eulogized by family and friends at a church in her hometown of Medford, Mass. Later in the day, a statewide moment of silence, followed by the ringing of bells, will mark the one-week anniversary of the finish-line blasts.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — the 19-year-old college student from Cambridge, Mass. who is suspected of carrying out the bombing along with his older brother — remained under guard at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, in critical but stable condition.
The full extent of Tsarnaev’s injuries, and whether he sustained them in a gun battle with police early Friday, remain unclear. He has a gunshot wound to the neck, Boston police said Sunday, and federal and local officials say they do not know whether he will be able to talk again.
Tsarnaev’s brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan, was killed in the confrontation with police. Authorities are eager to question the younger Tsarnaev about his and his brother’s alleged motives in the bombing, which killed three people and injured more than 170.
They also want to find out from him whether any international or domestic terrorist groups were involved. Islamist separatists in the Russian province of Dagestan — where the brothers spent part of their childhoods and where Tamerlan Tsarnaev visited last year — on Sunday denied any connection to the bombing. Boston’s mayor and police commissioner said Sunday that the brothers appear to have acted alone.
In Dagestan, relatives of said Tamerlan Tsarnaev had spent seven months in the region last year, and had become increasingly religious over the last three years but was not a radical.
“He was inquisitive and interested in religion,” his aunt, Patimat Suleimanova told Russia RT channel in an interview broadcast Monday, “but he was never a fanatic.”
Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s YouTube account and Internet activity, however, had become militant enough to draw attention from the Russian security services.
Suleimanova said Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had planned to visit Makhachkala, the Dagestani city where the brothers’ parents now live, in May. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev graduated from Cambridge Rindge & Latin High School in 2011, and was enrolled at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
“They missed their parents,” Patimat Suleimanova said in the Russian television interview. “They said ‘Mother, we love you, we are OK, we only miss you.’ Those children adored their mother and father, they knew that paradise is at the mother’s feet.”
She said Tamerlan visited her often during his days in Dagestan. “Tamerlan was very soft and kind,” she said. “When I hugged him I felt such warmth.”
Over the weekend, the Tsaraevs’ father, Anzor, said Tamerlan had visited Dagestan to renew his passport.
Russia’s Federal Migration Service (FMS) told the Interfax news agency that he filed an application for a replacement of the domestic passport Russians carry in July 2012, saying he had lost his in Boston.