MOSCOW, April 18 (RIA Novosti) – A photo of a note allegedly written by the Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the day before his arrest was published on the ABC News TV channel's website.
Tsarnaev left the note on the inside wall of a boat in a backyard in Watertown, Massachusetts, where he was hiding after engaging in a shootout with police.
The image published by ABC News on Thursday shows that the note has bullet holes. It also has red stains of what could be blood or paint, according to the media. Thus, the message is partly indecipherable.
“The US government is killing our innocent civilians, but most of you already know that… I can’t stand to see such go unpunished”, the hand-written note obtained by ABC News says.
“We Muslims are one body. You kill one of us, you hurt us all”, it says.
Two federal law enforcement officials and two representatives of state police confirmed the authenticity of the image, ABC News reported.
Twenty-year old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was arrested in April 2013 and is facing 30 charges, half of which are punishable by the death penalty. Tsarnaev has pleaded not guilty.
Three people were killed and over 260 wounded after two bombs went off near the finish line of the prestigious Boston Marathon on April 15 last year. The Tsarnaev brothers were soon after identified as suspects in the blasts.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a gunfight with police in the days following the bomb attack. His younger brother, Dzhokhar, tried to flee the city but was wounded and later arrested. He is now awaiting trial in federal court, scheduled to begin November 3.
