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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Dzhokhar Anzorovich "Jahar" Tsarnaev (born July 22, 1993) is an American domestic terrorist and mass murderer of Chechen and Avar descent who, along with his older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, planted pressure cooker bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. The bombs detonated, killing three people and injuring hundreds of others. The two then intended to commit another bombing in New York City, but Tamerlan was killed and Dzhokhar was arrested beforehand.
On April 18, 2013, the Federal Bureau Investigation (FBI) released images of the Tsarnaev brothers, stated that they were suspects in the bombing, and asked the public for help in identifying them. Later that evening, MIT Police Officer Sean Collier was found killed in his car, shot by the brothers. During an ensuing shootout with police, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan were both injured. Tamerlan soon died from his injuries. On the evening of April 19, after thousands of police officers conducted a manhunt in Watertown, Massachusetts, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found hiding in a boat in the backyard of a resident. Tsarnaev was shot and taken into custody. During an interrogation in his hospital bed, Tsarnaev said he and his brother also intended to detonate explosives in New York City's Times Square.
Tsarnaev was tried and convicted of 30 counts and was sentenced to death. His death sentence was vacated on appeal in July 2020, but the U.S. Supreme Court reversed that decision in March 2022. As of 2025, he is being held on death row at ADX Florence federal supermax prison in Colorado.
Dzhokhar Anzorovich Tsarnaev was born on July 22, 1993 to Anzor Tsarnaev, a Chechen, and Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, an Avar. His older brother, Tamerlan, was born on October 21, 1986. In the years following World War II, the Tsarnaev family had been forcibly moved from Chechnya by the Soviet Union to the Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan. Anzor and Zubeidat moved peripatetically across Central Asia during the late 20th century. In 1986, they were married in the Kalmyk Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, and Tamerlan was born there the next day. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was born in either Kyrgyzstan or Dagestan, in the Russian Federation. The parents also had two daughters. The family raised their children as Muslims; after the attack, a relative described Anzor as a "traditional Muslim" who objected to extremism.
Tsarnaev spent the first years of his life in Kyrgyzstan. In 2001, the family moved to Makhachkala, Dagestan, in the Russian Federation. In April 2002, the Tsarnaev parents and Dzhokhar went to the United States on a 90-day tourist visa. Anzor Tsarnaev successfully applied for asylum, citing fears of deadly persecution due to his ties to Chechnya. Tamerlan had been left in the care of his uncle Ruslan in Kyrgyzstan and arrived in the U.S. about two years later. The parents then filed for asylum for their four children, who received "derivative asylum status". They settled on Norfolk Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Tamerlan lived until his death.
The family "was in constant transition" for the next decade. Anzor Tsarnaev and Zubeidat Tsarnaeva both received welfare benefits. Anzor worked as a backyard mechanic and Zubeidat worked as a cosmetologist until she lost her job for refusing to work in a business that served men. In March 2007, the family was granted legal permanent residence. Tsarnaev would eventually become a U.S. citizen while in college. Zubeidat also became a U.S. citizen. Tamerlan was unable to naturalize expeditiously because an investigation against him held up the citizenship process.
Tsarnaev attended Cambridgeport Elementary School and Cambridge Community Charter School's middle school program. At Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, a public high school, he was an avid wrestler and a Greater Boston League winter all-star. He sometimes worked as a lifeguard at Harvard University.
In 2011, Tsarnaev contacted Brian Glyn Williams, a professor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, who taught a class about Chechen history, expressing his interest in the topic. He graduated from high school in 2011 and the city of Cambridge awarded him a $2,500 scholarship. His brother's boxing coach, who had not seen them in a few years at the time of the bombings, said that "the young brother was like a puppy dog, following his older brother."
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Dzhokhar Anzorovich "Jahar" Tsarnaev (born July 22, 1993) is an American domestic terrorist and mass murderer of Chechen and Avar descent who, along with his older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, planted pressure cooker bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. The bombs detonated, killing three people and injuring hundreds of others. The two then intended to commit another bombing in New York City, but Tamerlan was killed and Dzhokhar was arrested beforehand.
On April 18, 2013, the Federal Bureau Investigation (FBI) released images of the Tsarnaev brothers, stated that they were suspects in the bombing, and asked the public for help in identifying them. Later that evening, MIT Police Officer Sean Collier was found killed in his car, shot by the brothers. During an ensuing shootout with police, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan were both injured. Tamerlan soon died from his injuries. On the evening of April 19, after thousands of police officers conducted a manhunt in Watertown, Massachusetts, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found hiding in a boat in the backyard of a resident. Tsarnaev was shot and taken into custody. During an interrogation in his hospital bed, Tsarnaev said he and his brother also intended to detonate explosives in New York City's Times Square.
Tsarnaev was tried and convicted of 30 counts and was sentenced to death. His death sentence was vacated on appeal in July 2020, but the U.S. Supreme Court reversed that decision in March 2022. As of 2025, he is being held on death row at ADX Florence federal supermax prison in Colorado.
Dzhokhar Anzorovich Tsarnaev was born on July 22, 1993 to Anzor Tsarnaev, a Chechen, and Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, an Avar. His older brother, Tamerlan, was born on October 21, 1986. In the years following World War II, the Tsarnaev family had been forcibly moved from Chechnya by the Soviet Union to the Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan. Anzor and Zubeidat moved peripatetically across Central Asia during the late 20th century. In 1986, they were married in the Kalmyk Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, and Tamerlan was born there the next day. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was born in either Kyrgyzstan or Dagestan, in the Russian Federation. The parents also had two daughters. The family raised their children as Muslims; after the attack, a relative described Anzor as a "traditional Muslim" who objected to extremism.
Tsarnaev spent the first years of his life in Kyrgyzstan. In 2001, the family moved to Makhachkala, Dagestan, in the Russian Federation. In April 2002, the Tsarnaev parents and Dzhokhar went to the United States on a 90-day tourist visa. Anzor Tsarnaev successfully applied for asylum, citing fears of deadly persecution due to his ties to Chechnya. Tamerlan had been left in the care of his uncle Ruslan in Kyrgyzstan and arrived in the U.S. about two years later. The parents then filed for asylum for their four children, who received "derivative asylum status". They settled on Norfolk Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Tamerlan lived until his death.
The family "was in constant transition" for the next decade. Anzor Tsarnaev and Zubeidat Tsarnaeva both received welfare benefits. Anzor worked as a backyard mechanic and Zubeidat worked as a cosmetologist until she lost her job for refusing to work in a business that served men. In March 2007, the family was granted legal permanent residence. Tsarnaev would eventually become a U.S. citizen while in college. Zubeidat also became a U.S. citizen. Tamerlan was unable to naturalize expeditiously because an investigation against him held up the citizenship process.
Tsarnaev attended Cambridgeport Elementary School and Cambridge Community Charter School's middle school program. At Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, a public high school, he was an avid wrestler and a Greater Boston League winter all-star. He sometimes worked as a lifeguard at Harvard University.
In 2011, Tsarnaev contacted Brian Glyn Williams, a professor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, who taught a class about Chechen history, expressing his interest in the topic. He graduated from high school in 2011 and the city of Cambridge awarded him a $2,500 scholarship. His brother's boxing coach, who had not seen them in a few years at the time of the bombings, said that "the young brother was like a puppy dog, following his older brother."
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