It’s not over for dead Boston Bomber suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev yet: there’s a problem in finding a resting place and the family wants a second autopsy:
For nearly two weeks, Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s body lay unclaimed at the Boston medical examiner’s office. A funeral home now has the remains, and a quest is underway to find him a resting place in Massachusetts.
But first, he will undergo a second “independent” autopsy demanded by his relatives, a family spokeswoman said.
Other hurdles remain.
His death certificate has yet to be filed with the Boston city clerk, and there is no burial plot yet, according to the funeral home holding the remains.
If no grave site is found after the second autopsy, Peter Stefa, the owner of the funeral home, plans to ask the government to find a grave.
It increasingly appears that the dead bomber’s cause of death was exactly what news reports suggested: he was wounded, then his brother ran him over:
The owner of the funeral home read Tamerlan Tsarnaev ‘s death certificate to CNN over the phone Friday.
“Gunshot wounds of torso and extremities,” Stefan said. “Blunt trauma to head and torso.”
Authorities have said his younger brother may have run him over as they resisted arrest days after the marathon attacks.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.