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A Vermont Man Offers Burial Plot in CT to the family of Tamerlan Tsarnaev

The family of the Boston bombing suspect has been having a difficult time finding a cemetery willing to bury him. A cemetery in Enfield said no, but now the Yale Divinity School graduate is offering a plot in Hamden.

Paul Keane said he would offer the plot inside the Mount Carmel Burial Ground under one condition – that it’s done in memory of his mother, Barbara, who passed away in 1985.

She taught Sunday School for 20 years at the Mount Carmel Church. He said he wants to do this because she taught him “love thine enemy,” even if the enemy is a terrorist.

“This person, no matter how much of a pariah. No matter how despicable. No matter what a leper he is,” Keane told our CBS affiliate station WCAX in Vermont.

Mount Carmel cemetery is the oldest in Hamden and owned by a society. Each plot is owned individually.

In his blog Keane writes, “I own the plot and no one can refuse me access,” but that isn’t sitting well with local residents and those that have loved one buried there.

But, Connecticut residents disagree with Keane.

“He did an act of terrorism against this country, and I don’t think he should be buried on this soil,” said Sandra Marenholz of Cheshire.

People, who have loved ones at the Mount Carmel cemetery, gathered Tuesday as a group to voice their concerns about having the known killer buried in Hamden.

“To have this person who has no connection to town to city to state, sort of unceremoniously dumped here because no one else wants him is a concern,” said Franz Douskey of Hamden.

h/t – WFSB

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Boston Bombers Plotted Attack in NYC

The brothers Tsarnaev had plans to drive to New York in their carjacked Mercedes and explode their remaining bombs last Thursday, but their plans went off track when the owner of the car they stole made an escape, the New York City mayor said Thursday.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the information came to the attention of investigators during the interrogation of 19-year old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who had at first said the plan was to go to New York to “party” but then changed his story in an interview 24 hours later. At that time Tsarnaev allegedly acknowledged that he and his brother planned a follow-up attack. The brothers had six unexploded devices with them as they tried to flee, Boston Police sources said.

“We were informed by the FBI that the surviving attacker revealed that NYC was next on the list of targets he told the FBI apparently that he and his brother had planned to drive to NY and detonate additional explosives in Time Square, they had built these additional explosives and we know they had the capacity to carry out the attacks,” Bloomberg said at a press conference Thursday.

“The fact is NYC remains a prime target for those who hate America and want to kill Americans the attacks in boston and the news that NYC was next on the list shows just how critical it is for the federal government to devote high risk areas,” he said.

Bloomberg and New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said the brothers had a pressure cooker bomb similar to those detonating during the attacks on the Boston Marathon, as well as five pipe bombs.

Law enforcement officials also tell ABC News they are preparing to move the accused Boston Marathon bomber from his hospital room to a secured medical facility in one of the region’s prisons, sources tell ABC News.

h/t – ABC

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Suspect Number 2 – Alive And In Custody

At 8:44 PM on Friday April 19th, four days after the bombing in the Boston Marathon, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, also known now as “Suspect #2” was found in a boat in the backyard of 67 Franklin Street in Watertown Ma. He was taken into custody, bringing a twenty-eight hour standoff to an end.

News release from the Boston Police stated, “We took the suspect into custody alive. We’re bringing up an ambulance to transport him. He is believed to have suffered a gunshot wound and lost blood. It is unclear how weakened he was.”

Suspect 2 is alleged to be one of two men responsible for the killing of three people and wounding more than 140 people. Twenty eight hours before his capture, his brother, Suspect #2, was killed in a wild shootout. The task to gather information from this newly captured suspect now begins.

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One Boston Bomber Suspect Dead, The Other On The Run

Killed Suspect

Police killed one suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing during a shootout and were engaged in a house-to-house search for a second man on Friday in the Boston suburb of Watertown after a bloody night of shooting and explosions in the city’s streets.

Authorities warned people in Watertown not to leave their homes and not to answer the door. During the night a university police officer was killed, a transit police officer was wounded, and the suspects carjacked a vehicle before leading police on a chase that ended with one suspect shot dead.

Police said the suspect they were seeking was the man shown wearing a white cap in surveillance pictures released on Thursday night which had been taken shortly before Monday’s explosions that killed three people and wounded 176 at the finish of the Boston Marathon.

The blasts triggered security scares across the United States and evoked memories of the September 11, 2001 attacks. On Friday the authorities effectively closed down Boston, halting transportation systems and telling people to stay home as the hunt continued.

Officials said as police had closed in on the two men overnight they attacked the officers with explosives and gunfire before one of them was shot and taken to a hospital, where he died.

On The Run

Police were searching for the man known as Suspect 2 who was photographed wearing a white hat just before the explosions that killed three people and wounded 176. The blasts triggered security scares across the United States and evoked memories of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

“We believe this to be a terrorist,” said Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis of the suspect still at large. “We believe this to be a man who has come here to kill people. We need to get him in custody.”

The dramatic events overnight followed the release on Thursday by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of pictures and video of two suspects seen wearing backpacks and baseball caps in the crowd minutes before the bombs exploded.

About five hours later, a university police officer was shot and killed on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Middlesex County District Attorney said in a statement.

A short time later, police received reports of a carjacking by two men who kept their victim inside the car for about half an hour before releasing him, the statement said.

Police pursued that car to Watertown, where explosives were thrown from the car at police and shots were exchanged, the statement said.

“During the exchange of the gunfire, we believe that one of the suspects was struck and ultimately taken into custody. A second suspect was able to flee from that car and there is an active search going on at this point in time,” Colonel Timothy Alben, superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police, told a news conference.

The wounded suspect was taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he died, said Dr. Richard Wolfe, chief of emergency medicine.

h/t Reuters

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