The father of Boston Marathon bombing suspects, 26-year-old Tamerlan and 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, spoke with The Associated Press (AP) via phone on Friday. The father, Anzor Tsarnaev spoke from the Russian city of Makhachkala, and was told by police that Tamerlan was killed and Dzhokhar was being pursued by authorities, reports the AP.
"My son is a true angel," Tsarnaev told the AP. "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."
Earlier on Friday, WBZ interviewed an uncle of the suspects. Ruslan Tsarni told reporters of his nephews, "I wish they never existed."
Tsarni says the suspects Dzhokar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev came to the United States sometime in 2000 or 2001 -- more than 10 years ago --and have lived on Norfolk Street in Cambridge since their immigration.
The uncle has not been in contact with his nephews since 2009, he told WBZ.
“He deserved his. He absolutely deserved his,” Tsarni said of Tamerlan's death earlier on Friday. “They do not deserve to live on this earth.”
The uncle also called his nephew a "loser."