Suspect’s widow ‘cries a lot’
PROVIDENCE (Rhode Island): Katherine Russell has tried to stay out of sight in the five days since her husband, one of the suspects in the deadly Boston Marathon bombing, was killed in a shoot-out with police.
Russell, who wears the traditional Muslim hijab headdress, has made no public comment on what she may have seen or heard in the months before the April 15 bombing that killed three and wounded 264, in which her husband, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and his brother are the only known suspects.
“She cries a lot,” her lawyer Amato DeLuca said, describing Russell, 24, as exhausted and distressed. He said his client was entirely in the dark about her husband and brother-inlaw’s activities because she had been busy working as a health aide to support her family.
Her 26-year-old husband, an amateur boxer with a taste for expensive cars and clothes, stayed home with their toddler. He and his brother, ethnic Chechens, spoke to each other in a language Russell did not understand, DeLuca said.
Russell has been seen coming and going from her parents’ house in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, where police brought her late on Friday. She has not reappeared near the Cambridge, Massachusetts, flat she shared with Tsarnaev, her two-year-old daughter, her brother-in-law, and, for a time, her mother-in-law.
Russell was not a regular member of the congregation of the Islamic Society of Boston, where Tsarnaev twice disrupted services, mosque spokesman, Yusufi Vali, said yesterday. – Reuters