CAMBRIDGE, MA — A Somerville, Mass., car mechanic advised reporters on Friday that the younger of the two brothers suspected of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombing arrived to his shop on Tuesday, the day immediately after the bombing, and requested to pick up a car or truck he experienced dropped off for repairs about two months ahead of.Gilberto Junior, 44, stated that the man, who has been discovered as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, appeared to be “very anxious.”
“He was biting his fingernails, and was shaky,” Junior claimed.
Tsarnaev had dropped off the car or truck, which Junior explained as a white Mercedes wagon, at the auto shop about two months previously. It had rear bumper injury, and Tsarnaev experienced explained it was his girlfriend’s. On Tuesday, when Tsarnaev instantly returned, Junior informed him the motor vehicle was not ready.
“I do not treatment, I don’t care, I don’t treatment, I require the car or truck appropriate now,” Tsarnaev explained, according to Junior.
The mechanic said Tsarnaev took the car with no its rear bumper on.
Junior said he experienced regarded the two brothers for about two a long time. His shop, Junior’s Car Entire body, is not significantly from the Norfolk Road apartment in Cambridge that legislation enforcement searched on Friday. The brothers and their friends — concerning 6 and eight of them, Junior mentioned — would bring their automobiles to the store for get the job done.
“I talked to them all the time, about autos, and about soccer,” Junior explained.
Junior reported he had found the images of the suspects on Thursday, but he wasn’t positive it was the young males he knew until eventually Friday early morning. With the FBI looking the apartment so close to his store, Junior went more than and informed the FBI what he understood. Questioned what he had imagined of the brothers, Junior claimed he believed they had been “nice” children. Then he added: “You know, not awesome children now.”