Widow of Boston bomber now living in New Jersey
New York Post/August 23, 2014
By Kathianne Boniello and Erin Calabrese
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s widow has found a new home with her sisters-in-law in New Jersey.
Katherine Russell, 25, a Rhode Island native who converted from Catholicism to Islam, lives with her late husband’s two sisters in a home in North Bergen, just across the Hudson River from Manhattan.
“Get out!” she spat at media gathered outside her home on Saturday. “Why don’t you leave us alone?”
Then, Russell — wearing a flowered hijab and a long, loose dress, with a gray purse slung over her shoulder and holding a baby — got into a waiting Honda Pilot and drove away.
The Tsarnaeva sisters have had minor run-ins with the law. Ailina Tsarnaeva was charged in Boston with interfering with a money-laundering investigation, and Bella Tsarnaeva was charged with a minor marijuana possession offense in New Jersey.
Boston TV station WCVB tracked Russell to North Bergen last week.
Russell married Tsarnaev in 2010, and the pair had a daughter. After the bombing, she moved back to her parents’ home in North Kingstown, RI. It’s not clear when she relocated to New Jersey.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his brother Dzhokhar allegedly planted two bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon in April 2013. The twin blasts killed three people and injured or maimed more than 260. The pair are also suspected of killing MIT police officer Sean Collier in Cambridge, Mass., as cops searched for them after the bombing.
Hours after Collier’s death, Tamerlan Tsarnaev died in a police shootout.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was arrested after a manhunt when he was discovered hiding in a boat.
He is awaiting trial.
FBI agents interviewed Russell, but she has not been charged or called to testify in the bombing case. Her parents and siblings have been questioned, WCVB reported.
Both sisters have visited Dzhokar Tsarnaev in prison, WCVB said.
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