Tamerlan Anzorovich Tsarnaev ( ; October 21 , 1986 – April 19 , 2013 ) was a Soviet-born terrorist who , with his brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev , planted pressure cooker bombs at the Boston Marathon on April 15 , 2013 . The bombings killed three people and reportedly injured as many as 264 others . Tsarnaev was of half-Chechen and half-Avar descent . He came to the United States in 2004 . At the time of the bombings , Tsarnaev was an aspiring boxer
pressure cooker bombs at the Boston Marathon
Boston Marathon bombing
Tamerlan Tsarnaev