Unsealed records show Dzhokhar Tsarnaev made the call to synchronize bombs in Boston Marathon attack
Following his arrest, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told federal authorities that he and his brother Tamerlan planned the Boston Marathon bombing alone because they didn’t trust anyone else and didn’t care if friends were injured in the attack, according to newly unsealed court records obtained by The Boston Globe.
In an interview at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center just two days after he was arrested, Tsarnaev told federal agents that he and his brother randomly selected the spots where they placed their backpacks, and that he called his brother just before they detonated the bombs, the Globe reported. During Tsarnaev’s trial, his lawyers suggested that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was the one to make the call so that the two could synchronize the blasts.
The records were unsealed Monday in the case of Robel Phillipos, a friend of Tsarnaev who is appealing the three-year sentence he received after he was found guilty for lying to federal agents about others removing evidence from Tsarnaev’s dorm room following the bombing, according to the Globe. Prosecutors agreed to extempt the statements, which were made without a lawyer present, from Tsarnaev’s own trial last year.
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