Tamerlan Tsarnaev

Tamerlan Anzorovich Tsarnaev (21 October 1986 – 19 April 2013) was a Russian terrorist who carried out the Boston Marathon bombings in April 2013.

Quotes

 * So what if a kid dies? God will take care of him.
 * In April 2013, as quoted in "Boston Bombing Day 1: The Stunning Stop the Killers Made After the Attack" (18 April 2016), by Brian Ross, ABC News


 * Do you know the Boston Marathon explosion? I did it.
 * To Dun Meng (April 2013), as quoted in "Boston Bombing Day 4: The Firefight: 'I Thought We Were Gonna Die'" (21 April 2016), by Brian Ross, ABC News

Quotes about Tsarnaev

 * These two mass murders were not the tip of the spear of a new invasion of al-Qaeda terrorists. These were two dysfunctional angry young men.
 * Douglas Fields, Why We Snap: Understanding the Rage Circuit in Your Brain (2016), p. 220


 * Had about eight bullets in him and he was still fighting us... The only thing I had was my empty gun and I pistol-whipped him. I was trying to knock him out. I hit him as hard as I could, 10 or 12 times, couldn't knock him out... I only did it because I thought we were gonna die. I mean, truly, thought we were gonna die.
 * John MacLellan, as quoted in "Boston Bombing Day 4: The Firefight: 'I Thought We Were Gonna Die'" (21 April 2016), by Brian Ross, ABC News


 * He came charging up the street, shooting at me... So we're about six feet apart when he ran up that driveway, and he was shooting at me and I was exchanging gunfire with him... I'm lying there and I saw the front wheels go over Tamerlan. I saw him bounce up underneath the carriage a couple of times. I saw him get hung up in the rear wheels and get dragged 20, 25 feet... All we saw was taillights at that point.
 * Jeff Pugliese, as quoted in "Boston Bombing Day 4: The Firefight: 'I Thought We Were Gonna Die'" (21 April 2016), by Brian Ross, ABC News


 * He put a shame; he put a shame on our family. The Tsarni family! He put a shame on the entire Chechen ethnicity!
 * Ruslan Tsarni, as quoted in Why We Snap: Understanding the Rage Circuit in Your Brain (2016), by Douglas Fields, p. 220