As the authorities focus on the geographic distribution of what may (or may not) be a delocalized cell, a curious developed has emerged courtesy of NJ.com [2], which reports that a woman has been found living in West New York who has identified the bombing suspects as her brothers. She adds, logically enough, that she can't believe any of this has happened. She is probably not the only one.
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From NJ.com
“They were great people. I never would have expected it,” said the woman, of the suspects in Monday's bombing. “They are smart – I don’t know what’s gotten into them.”
Through a slight crack in the door of a West New York apartment this morning, a woman answered a few questions. She referred to Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, and his brother Tamerlan, 26, as her own “brothers.”
She wouldn’t identify herself, but public records listed a woman living there with the same last name as the suspects in the Monday bombings which killed three and injured more than 170.
But she balked when media asked if she was "okay."
“No I’m not okay – no one is okay right now,” she said. “I’m hurt for everyone who has been hurt. I’m sorry for all the people who are hurt and for all the people who lost their lives.”
Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed early this morning in a shootout with law enforcement in Massachusetts, authorities say.
When asked about Dzhokhar Tsarnaev – currently the subject of a massive manhunt in the greater Boston area – the woman had just a few words, in spite of her shock.
“He’s an amazing child.”