Tamerlan is from near Chechnya who fled to the United States as a child refugee with his family from the fighting in the southern Russian province.
Tamerlan claimed not have “a single American friend.” “I don’t understand them,” reads one of the captions to the set pictures of Tamerlan.
In 2009 he was apprehended for domestic violence against his girlfriend, who described him in one interview as a “very nice man,” according to the City of Cambridge Police Department.
A boxing enthusiast, he spent a lot of time training for competitions, according to Johannes Hirn, who posted a photo essay entitled ‘Will Box for Passport’ on his page on Photoshelter.com.
