The widow of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev yesterday continued to dodge the feds.
Katherine Russell (pictured), 24, has so far rebuffed the agents, who are eager to talk to her about her husband’s terror plot. Her lawyer yesterday said he had spoken with authorities and they were “deciding what to do.”
Russell, mother of Tsarnaev’s 2-year-old daughter, Zahara, was oblivious to Tsarnaev’s deadly plan, lawyer Amato DeLuca said.
“She knew nothing about it at any time,” he said.
“The whole family is a mess, to put it bluntly. They’re very distraught. They’re upset,” DeLuca told CNN. “Their lives have been unalterably changed. They’re upset because of what happened, the people that were injured, that were killed. It’s an awful, terrible thing.”
Russell learned from TV news reports that her husband and brother-in-law were suspected in the attacks, the lawyer said.
Yesterday, agents remained camped out at the colonial-style North Kingstown, RI, home of Russell’s parents, where she is staying.
When she and her mom, Judith, left the house at about 9:30 a.m., the feds followed in unmarked cars.
Three hours later, Russell — hunched down in her seat and covering her head with a hood — returned, her white Nissan screaming around the corner and directly into the garage as agents resumed their positions up the street.
DeLuca said he thinks Russell will eventually talk.
“She understands the need for doing it,” he said. “It’s a threat to national security, and she gets that.”
Russell’s parents put their home up for sale Friday.
The fresh-faced Russell was a student at Suffolk University in Massachusetts when she met Tsarnaev at a nightclub.
They dated on and off before Russell dropped out of college, cut off contact with her friends, converted to Islam and married Tsarnaev in June 2010.
With AP