The second Boston Bomber, who wasn't killed by the FBI was reported to have spent an apparently normal day Wednesday at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth where he was a sophomore, according to a school official, working out in the gym, then sleeping in his dorm room that night, while law enforcement officials frantically scanned photos trying to identify the men who planted deadly bombs at the Boston Marathon on Monday.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is described as a good and typical student who played intramural soccer, was on campus Wednesday, this according to his Card swipes but it was not clear if he had been there earlier in the week.
A student, who did not want to be identified, also said she saw Tsarnaev at a party on Wednesday night that was attended by some of his soccer friends.
"He was just relaxed," she said.
Tsarnaev, 19, was the subject of an intense manhunt until he was cornered and captured in a backyard in Watertown on Friday evening. His brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was killed early Friday morning in a shootout with police.
In a phone interview Friday morning, Pamala Rolon, 22, a UMass Dartmouth senior and a resident assistant a the Pine Dale Hall dorms, where Tsarnaev lived, said she has known him for a year and find the notion that he played any role in the bombing incredible.
'He studied. He hung out with me and my friends, "she said. "I'm in shock."
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had done well academically in high school, but the The New York Times reported that he was failing many of his courses at UMass Dartmouth. The Times said a school transcript showed seven failing grades over two semesters in 2012 and 2013, including Fs in Principles of Modern Chemistry, Intro American Politics, and Chemistry and the Environment. According to the transcript, Tsarnaev got a B in Critical Writing and a D and D-plus in two other courses.
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