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Eugene

(61,595 posts)
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 08:53 PM Apr 2013

Boston bomb suspect's wife assisting probe -lawyer

Source: Reuters

Boston bomb suspect's wife assisting probe -lawyer

By Svea Herbst-Bayliss and Scott Malone
PROVIDENCE, R.I./BOSTON | Tue Apr 23, 2013 7:41pm EDT

(Reuters) - The wife of the dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect is assisting authorities and in absolute shock that her husband and brother-in-law were accused of the deadly blasts, her lawyer said on Tuesday.

"She cries a lot," attorney Amato DeLuca said of Katherine Russell, 24, an American-born convert to Islam who was married to Tamerlan Tsarnaev in June 2010. "She can't go anywhere. She can't work."

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Katherine Russell's lawyer called a news conference to deny that she had any connection to or knowledge of the bombings, saying she was busy caring for the couple's 2-1/2-year-old daughter and working as a home healthcare aide in the time leading up to the blasts.

"She is doing everything she can to assist with the investigation," DeLuca said outside his office in Providence, Rhode Island. "The reports of involvement by her husband and brother-in-law came as an absolute shock to them all."

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/23/us-usa-explosions-boston-shooting-idUSBRE93I0GQ20130423
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Boston bomb suspect's wife assisting probe -lawyer (Original Post) Eugene Apr 2013 OP
I really feel sorry for her. Heather MC Apr 2013 #1
That's going to be rough get the red out Apr 2013 #2
Boston bomb suspect's wife assisting probe -lawyer onpatrol98 Apr 2013 #3
 

Heather MC

(8,084 posts)
1. I really feel sorry for her.
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 09:00 PM
Apr 2013

How do you tell your child, daddy killed, 4 people, injured almost 200, and then got himself killed in a shootout, He is never coming home. Now finish eating your cereal.

get the red out

(13,459 posts)
2. That's going to be rough
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 09:18 PM
Apr 2013

She would probably need to distance herself and her child from this whole thing for a few years to shelter her somewhat.

onpatrol98

(1,989 posts)
3. Boston bomb suspect's wife assisting probe -lawyer
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 11:17 PM
Apr 2013

Well, yeah...she still has a small child to raise. She can't be caught up with this horror.

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