A video from Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's wrestling days has been posted online by friends who are still struggling to understand what drove a seemingly normal 19-year-old college student to terrorism
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Source: Supplied
- Bombing suspect's friend releases video
- 'Jahar' filmed dancing, wrestling, goofing around
- "He really loves his brother, looks up to him."
WHILE the world waits to find out what drove two brothers to terrorism, devastated friends are just as clueless about what motivated a seemingly normal college kid to carry out the Boston bombings.
So determined are they to show the "normal" side of their lives, footage has been released of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev goofing around, like a normal high school student.
Dzhokhar, known as Jahar among friends, is the younger of the two brothers, aged 19 and 26, accused of plotting the Boston Marathon bombing and killing an MIT police officer last weekend.
The video shows Jahar wrestling with his high school buddies, dancing, and goofing around - as kids his age do.
It was released by Yushun Tsou, a mate of Jahar's from his high school, the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School.
A sophomore at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, he attended class every day after the attack until the FBI released photos of the accused brothers late Thursday, CNN reports.
He attended a dorm party and even discussed the bombings at the gym with friends.
"He was like, 'Yeah, tragedies happen like this all the time and it's sad'," Zach Bettencourt said.
An eyewitness says friends joked about the resemblance of the FBI photo, but they couldn't believe it.
"We made a joke like - that could be Dzhokhar," said a 22-year-old resident dorm assistant where he lived.
"But then we thought it just couldn't be him. Dzhokhar? Never.'
As news broke on Jahar, friends immediately took to Twitter to argue in disbelief at what they were seeing.
Jahar's Twitter account paints a picture of your average college teen; banal musings about Game of Thrones and the television show, Breaking Bad. There's talk of smoking marijuana with his "bros", of parties, music, and musings about life.
Meanwhile, A Boston Globe journalist has recalled in heartbreaking detail a friendship with the bomber "that would last to our senior years".
"The Dzhokhar I knew was a young man who spent all night looking in his car for a new phone I clumsily lost. He left work early just to help me retrace my steps," he wrote.
"He was a young man who proudly shook my hand after I told him I was hired at the Boston Globe.
"He was a captain on the Cambridge Ringe and Latin wrestling team, he was in the National Honor Society, he earned a scholarship to a four-year university. It seemed no one ever had a problem with Dzhokhar."
The older brother, Tamerlan, died after a police shoot-out on Friday (AEST). Jahar is in hospital in a serious condition, and authorities are waiting to question him.
At the weekend, the brothers' uncle suggested the older brother has been influenced by radicals and that he in turn influenced the younger brother.
An old school friend of Jahar's said: "He really loves his brother, looks up to him."
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