47 Facts About Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Dzhokhar "Jahar" Anzorovich Tsarnaev was born on July 22,1993 and is an American terrorist of Chechen descent who was convicted of perpetrating the Boston Marathon bombing.

An ensuing shootout with police injured Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and killed Tamerlan.

Police opened fire before Dzhokhar Tsarnaev surrendered and was taken into custody.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was tried and convicted of 30 counts and subsequently sentenced to death.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his brother were born to Anzor Tsarnaev, a Chechen, and Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, an Avar.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was born on July 22,1993 in either Kyrgyzstan or Dagestan, in the Russian Federation.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev spent the first years of his life in Kyrgyzstan.

Anzor Dzhokhar Tsarnaev successfully applied for asylum, citing fears of deadly persecution due to his ties to Chechnya.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev attended Cambridgeport Elementary School and Cambridge Community Charter School's middle school program.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sometimes worked as a lifeguard at Harvard University.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev graduated from high school in 2011 and the city of Cambridge awarded him a $2,500 scholarship that year.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev enrolled at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in September 2011.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev started with a marine biology major with the intent on becoming a director but later changed to nursing.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was described as "normal" and popular among fellow students.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's friends said he sometimes smoked marijuana, liked hip hop, and did not talk to them about politics.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev posted links to Islamic websites, links to videos of fighters in the Syrian civil war, and links to pages advocating independence for Chechnya.

In 2012, Arlington Police ran a warrant check on Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and checked his green Honda when they were investigating a report of underage drinking at a party in Arlington Heights.

At the time of the bombing, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was a sophomore living in the UMass Dartmouth's Pine Dale Hall dorm.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was struggling academically, having a 1.09 GPA and receiving seven failing grades over three semesters, including Fs in Principles of Modern Chemistry, Introduction to American Politics, and Chemistry and the Environment and had an unpaid bill of $20,000 to the university.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was known to be selling marijuana to make money.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted of participating, along with his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, in the Boston Marathon Bombing on April 15,2013.

That day, images of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were captured on CCTV near the finish line pushing his way through spectators towards the front carrying a duffel bag that was later determined to contain one of two pressure cooker bombs that would detonate.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev appeared to place the bag down without causing any suspicion amongst spectators and then appeared to watch some marathon runners cross the finish line before hurrying away moments before the bomb exploded.

Shortly after the second bomb exploded, CCTV cameras recorded video of both Dzhokhar Tsarnaev brothers running away from the scene along with the crowd.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev continued to tweet after the bombings, and sent a tweet telling the people of Boston to "stay safe".

Police say that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev escaped by driving the stolen SUV toward the officers who were arresting his brother.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev lifted the tarpaulin, saw a bloodied man, retreated into his house and called 911.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's left arm and left leg hung over the boat's side.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was transported to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, in Boston, where he was treated in the intensive-care unit.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was questioned by a federal High-Value Interrogation Group, a special counterterrorism group composed of members of the FBI, CIA and Department of Defense that was created to question high-value detainees.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev admitted during questioning that he and his brother were planning to detonate explosives in New York City's Times Square next.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev says he was inspired by online videos from Anwar al-Awlaki, who inspired Faisal Shahzad, the perpetrator of the 2010 Times Square car bombing attempt.

Investigators found no evidence that Tsarnaev was involved in any jihadist activities, and, according to The Wall Street Journal, came to believe that unlike his brother Tamerlan, Dzhokhar "was never truly radicalized".

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was held in solitary confinement and restricted to one three-page letter and one telephone call per week.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was read his Miranda rights at his bedside by a federal magistrate judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, nodded his head to answer the judge's questions, and answered "no" when asked whether he could afford a lawyer.

In June 2013, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was indicted by a federal grand jury on 30 charges.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty to all 30 counts against him, which included using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was prosecuted by assistant US attorneys William Weinreb and Aloke Chakravarty, of the Anti-Terrorism and National Security Unit of the US Attorney's Office in Boston.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty to all thirty charges laid against him.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who had displayed little emotion throughout his trial, appeared to weep when his relatives testified on his behalf on May 4,2015.

On May 15,2015, the jury recommended that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev be sentenced to death by lethal injection on six of 17 capital counts.

On June 24,2015, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev faced his living victims in court as his death sentence was formally delivered.

Victims and their families were able to present impact statements to the court, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who had been silent throughout his month-long trial, apologized to the injured and the bereaved in the bombings.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev remained in prison from multiple life sentences carried by the other uncontested convictions.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev asked the First Circuit Court of Appeals to consider four constitutional claims that had not been considered by the Supreme Court.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's attorneys argued that jurors in the case had lied about prior discussions of the case on Twitter and Facebook.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's attorneys argued this lack of disclosure should have disqualified the jurors from serving.