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AP sources: Boston Marathon bomb suspect travelled to Russia, was out of the US for 6 months
WASHINGTON – Government officials say Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev travelled to Russia last year and returned to the U.S. six months later.
The 26-year-old Tsarnaev died in a police shootout overnight.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they couldn’t publicly talk about an investigation in progress. One says Tsarnaev travelled out of John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.
Investigators believe that Tsarneaev and his brother Dzhokhar are responsible for the deadly Boston Marathon attack. Dzhokhar is still being sought.
The ethnic Chechen brothers are from Dagestan, which neighbours the Chechnya region in southern Russia. An uncle says they lived near Boston and had been in the U.S. for about a decade.
One official said there are no known ties at this point to Chechen extremist groups.
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