Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the two Boston Marathon bombing suspects , was reportedly on campus at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth after the Monday attack.
The Associated Press reports that several of Tsarnaev’s classmates spotted him on campus between the attack and his eventual capture this week. Though a UMass-Dartmouth spokesman for the university wouldn’t comment beyond merely confirming that Tsarnaev was registered as a student there, several of his fellow students say that they did at least see him on campus after the Monday bombing.
One student who lives on the same dormitory floor as Tsarnaev says that he spotted him in the hallway after the bombings occurred.
“He was regular, he was calm,” the student said, though confessed that he hadn’t interacted with Tsarnaev much.
Another student who is enrolled in a philosophy class with Tsarnaev says that she saw him on campus as well, though he wasn’t in class. “He was laid back. I would never expect this at all from him,” she said.
School officials evacuated the UMass-Dartmouth campus on Friday after it was revealed that Tsarnaev was a suspect, and that he was still enrolled at the university. An official statement gave the evacuation reason as “out of an abundance of caution,” during the Friday manhunt.
These reports add to an abundance of evidence that seems to indicate that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev at least attempted to keep up a facade of his normal life after the Boston Marathon bombing Monday.
He continued tweeting in the days after the bombing, as well. His tweets just one day after the bombing seem pretty mundane – nothing really out of the ordinary for an average college-age student.
His final tweet, two days after the bombing, read:
I’m a stress free kind of guy
— Jahar (@J_tsar) April 17, 2013
What do you think? Are you surprised that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was apparently able to pick up his life right where it left off after the Boston Marathon bombing?
