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UPDATE: Family Confirms Bomber's Wife from NK

The wife of a man suspected in the Boston Marathon bombings issued a statement Friday afternoon.


Updated, Friday 6:24 p.m.
The family of Katherine Russell, wife of one of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers, issued a statement Friday evening outside their North Kingstown home.

The statement was printed on a piece of paper and handed to a reporter outside the home on Coriander Lane. 

The note reads:

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Our daughter has lost her husband today, the father of her child.

We cannot begin to comprehend how this horrible tragedy occurred. In the aftermath of the Patriot's Day horror, we know that we never really knew Tamerlane Tsarnaev.

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Our hearts are sickened by the knowledge of the horror he has inflicted.

Please respect our family's privacy in this difficult time.

Earlier, the North Kingstown Police Department confirmed that the Rhode Island State Police visited a home in North Kingstown in connection with the Boston Marathon bombing investigation, according to the NorthEast Independent.

Voting records indicate that Katherine Russell, of North Kingstown, is a relative of bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed in a standoff with police on Friday, April 19.

It has been reported that Russell, 24, is married to Tsarnaev and the two have a three-year-old daughter together. 

Check back with North Kingstown Patch for more information as this story develops.


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