Guest Yahoo! News Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 [attach=full]20995[/attach]By Richard Valdmanis BOSTON (Reuters) - The older brother of convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was transformed from a heavy drinker and drugs user into someone obsessed with Islam after returning from a trip to Russia in 2012, witnesses said on Tuesday. The 21-year-old ethnic Chechen was convicted this month of killing three people and injuring 264 in the bombing, and shooting dead a police officer three days later alongside the older brother, Tamerlan. Rogerio Franca, who lived near the Tsarnaev family in Cambridge, Massachusetts, told jurors Tamerlan was a partier before his trip to Russia but transformed into someone more closely resembling a devout Muslim when he returned. "Most of the time he was drunk, most of the time he was high," Franca said of Tamerlan before his trip. Continue reading... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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