The End of Sad Chapter Boston bombing suspect's body finally interred

Boston bombing suspect's body finally interred

Getty Images. Tamerlan Tsarnaev waits for a decision during the 2009 Golden Gloves National Tournament of Champions.

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The question of where to bury Tamerlan Tsarnaev had proven a thorny one, with city officials in Boston and surrounding areas refusing to accept the body for burial.

The body of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been entombed and is no longer in the city of Worcester, Mass., where it had been held at a funeral home, the Worcester Police Department said on Thursday.
The police did not disclose where the body had been moved.
The 26-year-old ethnic Chechen died in an April 19 gun battle with police, four days after he and his younger brother Dzhokhar are suspected of having set off bombs at the finish line of the Boston Marathon that killed three people and injured 264.
The question of where to bury the elder Tsarnaev had proven to be a thorny one, with city officials in Boston and in Cambridge, Mass., where he had lived, refusing to accept the body for burial.
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A crowd had picketed outside the Worcester funeral home where the body had been held since it was claimed from the medical examiner last week.
"A courageous and compassionate individual came forward to provide the assistance to properly bury the deceased," Worcester police said in a statement posted on the department's Web page.
Earlier in the week, a Yale Divinity School alum said he was willing to donate a burial spot in Connecticut. The Tsarnaev family is believed to have turned down his offer.

Vt. man offers burial plot to family of Boston bomber

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Citing his late mother's Sunday School teachings, Paul Douglas Keane, 68, offered a burial plot for Tsarnaev. Keane made the announcement Monday via his blog, the Anti-Yale, that he was willing to donate a burial plot that he owns at Mount Carmel Burying Grounds in Hamden, Conn.
"I don't care how despicable and hateful this man's behavior was in his lifetime," Keane told a reporter with the New Haven Register. "He's dead, and his body deserves a resting place just like everyone's body deserves a resting place."
"The only condition is that I do it in the memory of my mother who taught Sunday School at the Mt. Carmel Congregational Church for twenty years and taught me to 'love thine enemy,'" Keane wrote.
Keane's offer was met with objections from families with loved ones buried at Mount Carmel's cemetery.
"I'm very, very disturbed," Cheshire resident Gretchen Hayden told Hamden Patch.com, noting that her deceased 3-year-old son, Cameron, could end up sharing a final resting place with a notorious bomber.
Several U.S. soldiers are also interred at the burial grounds, which are hemmed by rolling hills.
Still, others have commended Keane for his generosity. On Twitter, user @islesphotos remarked: "KUDOS to Paul Douglas Keane for offering your cemetery plot to the family of Tamerlan Tsarnaev. It takes much Godly grace to do so."
In an updated blog posting Wednesday, Keane said that if the funeral director handling Tsarnaev's burial declines his offer, he would be happy to offer the plots instead for U.S. soldiers "who have died in the service of our country and cannot afford a plot of their own."

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