Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

In 1986, the couple was married in the Kalmyk Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, and Tamerlan was born there the next day.

Dzhokhar Anzorovich Tsarnaev (born July 22, 1993) is an American terrorist of Chechen-Avar descent who was convicted of perpetrating the Boston Marathon bombing.

Dzhokhar and his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, planted pressure cooker bombs near the finish line of the race, killing three people and injuring 264 others.

Dzhokhar Anzorovich Tsarnaev was born on July 22, 1993.

Tsarnaev was born to Anzor Tsarnaev, a Chechen, and Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, an Avar.

He had an older brother, Tamerlan.

In the years following World War II, the Tsarnaev family had been forcibly moved from Chechnya by the Soviet Union to the Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan.

Anzor and Zubeidat moved peripatetically across Central Asia during the late 20th century.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was born on July 22, 1993, in either Kyrgyzstan or Dagestan, in the Russian Federation.

The parents also have two daughters.

The family raised their children as Muslims; after the attack, a relative described Anzor as a "traditional Muslim" who objected to extremism.

Tsarnaev spent the first years of his life in Kyrgyzstan.

In 2001, the family moved to Makhachkala, Dagestan, in the Russian Federation.

In April 2002, the Tsarnaev parents and Dzhokhar went to the United States on a 90-day tourist visa.

Anzor Tsarnaev successfully applied for asylum, citing fears of deadly persecution due to his ties to Chechnya.

Tamerlan had been left in the care of his uncle Ruslan in Kyrgyzstan and arrived in the U.S. about two years later.

The parents then filed for asylum for their four children, who received "derivative asylum status".

They settled on Norfolk Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Tamerlan lived until his death.

The family "was in constant transition" for the next decade.

Anzor Tsarnaev and Zubeidat Tsarnaeva both received welfare benefits.

The father worked as a backyard mechanic and the mother worked as a cosmetologist until she lost her job for refusing to work in a business that served men.

In March 2007, the family was granted legal permanent residence.

Tsarnaev would eventually become a U.S. citizen while in college.

Zubeidat also became a U.S. citizen, but whether Anzor ever did is unknown.

Tamerlan was unable to naturalize expeditiously because an investigation against him held up the citizenship process.

Tsarnaev attended Cambridgeport Elementary School and Cambridge Community Charter School's middle school program.

At Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, a public high school, he was an avid wrestler and a Greater Boston League winter all-star.

He sometimes worked as a lifeguard at Harvard University.

In 2011, he contacted Brian Glyn Williams, a professor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth who taught a class about Chechen history, expressing his interest in the topic.

He graduated from high school in 2011 and the city of Cambridge awarded him a $2,500 scholarship that year.

On April 18, 2013, the Tsarnaev brothers attacked and killed MIT Police Officer Sean Collier.

An ensuing shootout with police injured Dzhokhar and killed Tamerlan.

A Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Police officer was critically injured in the course of Tsarnaev's escape.

Thousands of police officers conducted a manhunt in Watertown, Massachusetts.

On the evening of April 19, Tsarnaev was located inside of the police search perimeter.

Police opened fire before a wounded Tsarnaev surrendered and was taken into custody.

During subsequent interrogation, Tsarnaev revealed a further intention to detonate explosives in New York City's Times Square.

He claimed that he was inspired, in part, by Anwar al-Awlaki.

Tsarnaev was tried and convicted of 30 counts and subsequently sentenced to death.

His death sentence was vacated on appeal in July 2020, but the U.S. Supreme Court reversed that decision in March 2022.