Crime & Safety

Parking Ticket Gives More Insight Into Watertown 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 Watertown 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 Boston Marathon 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.

State and federal authorities are investigatign the possible role Tsarnaev and his brother Tamerlan played in the 2011 murders of three people in a Waltham home. Tamerlan was killed during the April 19 shootout with police in Watertown.

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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.

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

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