His friends describe Dzokhar as a leader who was very skilled wrestling — he earned a scholarship to college — and encouraged them to get better. They were shocked and are in a “dream” and “nightmare” state that they haven’t woken up from because they cannot believe the man they went to high school with is responsible for this egregious crime against America.
There is a page at the Russian social network VKontakte (In Contact) with the name Dzhokhar Tsarnaev living in the Boston suburb of Cambridge, Mass. and studying at Cambridge Rindge & Latin School.
The name is listed among the recipients of Cambridge scholarships in 2011.
The Cambridge school states Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as its athlete of the month for February 2011, saying that he is an athlete.
The VKontakte page mentions a school in Makhachkala, the capital of the Republic of Dagestan, as a place Tsarnaev studied between 1999 and 2001.
The Tsarnaev family moved to Dagestan from Kyrgyzstan in 2001, the school spokesman told RT. Dzhokhar studied there for just one year and produced no particular impression, good or bad, on the teachers.
“He arrived at our school in the first form and departed in the second,” Irina Bandurina, the secretary at Makhachkala’s School No.1, told RT. “They arrived from Kyrgyzstan and departed to the US. I’m telling you they lived here for a year. Not the whole year. They arrived at the school in 2001 and departed in March 2002 … There were four of them – two sisters and two brothers… It’s written here that they are from Kyrgyzstan. The Chechens.”
Dzhokhar was born in Kyrgyzstan. The family, which also included two daughters, Bella and Amina, had the status of refugees at the time they moved to Russia.
