Crime & Safety

Boston Marathon Bomber's Widow Unhappy with Movie Depiction

A lawyer for Katherine Russell, who once lived in North Kingstown and graduated from the high school, says the movie depicted her unfairly.

NORTH KINGSTOWN, RI—Katherine Russell's lawyer says she's not pleased with her depiction in "Patriot's Day," the new movie about the Boston Marathon bombings, according to news sources.

Russell is the widow of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of two brothers responsible for killing three people and injuring more than 260.

She has never been charged with a crime, although there has been speculation she may have known in advance about the plot. The movie suggests she knew something before the attacks and didn't cooperate after.

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"It's just not true," her lawyer Amato DeLuca told The Associated Press. "I have no objection to them making a movie. ... What I quarrel with is the license they take in portraying Katie as someone who did not cooperate and try to save lives. She did everything she could."

Russell grew up in North Kingstown. She was graduated from North Kingstown High.

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She and Tsarnaev were living in a Cambridge, Mass., apartment before the bombings.

DeLuca said that Russell was working 80 hour weeks as a home health aide in the Boston area and had no idea that her husband was involved in terrorism.

She has since moved to New Jersey with her daughter.

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