WASHINGTON, July 10 (RIA Novosti) – Suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is set to make his first public court appearance Wednesday at a hearing expected to put him face-to-face with victims of the deadly April 15 attack.
During the hearing at a federal courthouse in Boston, Tsarnaev, 19, is scheduled to hear the 30-count indictment against him, which includes charges of killing three people in the twin blasts near the marathon’s finish line, including an 8-year-old boy. He could face the death penalty.
US federal prosecutors have reserved space in the courtroom for victims of the attack, which left more than 260 people wounded, many of whom are now missing limbs.
“It has been incredibly hard to accept what happened to my boys,” Liz Norden, who has two sons who each lost a leg in the attack, told ABC News . “I'm angry. I want to be there.”
Tsarnaev has also been charged in the slaying of a police officer at the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as police chased him and his brother, fellow suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, in a frantic manhunt days after the bombing.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed during a shootout with police in the Boston suburb of Watertown, while Dzhokhar suffered nonfatal wounds and was apprehended on April 19.
Russian law enforcement authorities have been cooperating with their US counterparts in the investigation of the brothers, ethnic Chechens whose family roots lie in the turbulent North Caucasus region of southern Russia.
In 2011, Russia asked the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to interview Tamerlan Tsarnaev over concerns relating to his interest in “radical Islam.” However, an FBI statement said that it “did not find any terrorism activity, domestic or foreign,” after questioning Tamerlan and members of his family at that time.
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