Anzor Tsarnaev, father of suspected Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, and deceased suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, has said that “all hell will break loose” if his surviving son is killed in the current manhunt in the Boston area.
Earlier today, Anzor Tsarnaev spoke with AP reporters , and later, the elder Tsarnaev granted an interview from his home in the Russian city of Makhachkala as the manhunt wore on.
In the initial interview, Tsarnaev expressed disbelief his sons were implicated in the bombing, and he said:
“My son is a true angel … Dzhokhar is a second-year medical student in the U.S. He is such an intelligent boy. We expected him to come on holidays here.”
Speaking to ABC , the elder Tsarnaev explained that he’d talked to his sons after the Boston Marathon bombing. Anzor Tsarnaev said: “We talked about the bombing. I was worried about them.”
Dzhokhar’s father said the young men reassured him: “Everything is good, Daddy. Everything is very good.”
In the later conversation, Anzor Tsarnaev said to his son Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: “Give up. Give up. You have a bright future ahead of you. Come home to Russia.”
Darkly, the man added: “If they killed him, then all hell would break loose … If they kill my second child, I will know that it is an inside job, a hit job. The police are to blame … Someone, some organization is out to get them.”
A former classmate of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev also spoke to ABC, saying: “He was a great athlete. He did well. I think he won a scholarship for it. This is very unexpected … this is out of the ordinary. Completely shocking.”
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev remains at large, and it is speculated that surrender negotiations may be ongoing.
