Crime & Safety

Parking Ticket Issued in Watertown to Car Registered to Bombing Suspect in Area of Shootout

Police found an old ticket issued to a car registered to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for parking in the area where the shootout occured.

A parking ticket issued during a snow emergency provides more evidence that the Boston Marathon Bombing suspects had visited the neighborhood where they got into a shootout with Watertown Police, and where one met his end.

The parking ticket was issued to a silver Honda registered to bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, according to a report by ABC News. It was issued on Feb. 18, 2011, for parking on Boyston Street during a snow emergency.

The Tsarnaev brothers had a friend, Maximilian Freddura, who lived on Boylston Street, ABC News reports. Freddura's apartment is just a few blocks from the intersection of Laurel Street and Dexter Avenue where they  and where Tamerlan died.

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Another Freddura, Sebastian, said he was once close friends with older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Sebastian also lives on Boylston Street.

It is unclear why the Tsarnaevs ended up in the neighborhood on April 19, the night of the shootout.

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