The widow of alleged Boston Marathon Bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev and mother of his child said she is in "absolute shock" and "deeply mourns the pain and loss to innocent victims" following last week's bombings.
Providence law firm DeLuca + Weizenbaum issued a release today and said that Katherine Russel Tsarnaev feels "the injuries and loss of life – to people who came to celebrate a race and a holiday – has caused profound distress and sorrow to Katie and her family."
Reports of her husband’s involvement in the bombing that killed three and injured at least 170 people “came as an absolute shock” to Tamerian Tsarnaev and her family, the statement reads. Tsarnaev, 26, died last Friday morning after a firefight with police.
Katherine Russell, known as “Katie,” married Tsarnaev in June 2010, according to the statement. Since then, she has been living in Cambridge with Tsarnaev and their daughter, working 70 to 80 hours a week as a home health care aide.
Tsarnaev’s lawyers stated that she has been ”doing everything she can do assist with the investigation.”
A 2007 graduate of North Kingstown High School, Katherine Russell Tsarnaev grew up in Rhode Island and “has remained close to her parents and sisters” who live in North Kingstown. Since last week, she has been staying at the family home in Fletcher Estates, which the Russells are looking to sell. According to the family’s real estate agent, the house hit the market on the day Tsarnaev’s husband was identified as one of the bombing suspects, though the family had been in the process of putting their house up for sale for several weeks.