Investigators Trace Gun Used By Marathon Bombing Suspect To Maine
Source: TPM
ERIC LACH – MAY 13, 2014, 5:56 PM EDT
Within days of the Boston Marathon bombing last year, Tamerlan Tsarnaev used a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun to kill an MIT security officer and to critically wound a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority officer. He had the gun, a black Ruger P95, in his hands during a shoot-out with police in Watertown, Mass. on April 19, 2013, and he ultimately threw it at officers before he was killed.
The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday that the gun has been traced back to a gang in Portland, Maine.
According to the Times, the weapon was originally purchased legally in 2011 at a Cabela's store in Maine by a man named Danny Sun Jr., a Los Angeles native living in a Portland suburb. Sun was arrested on May 1 last year, on a warrant related to a traffic case. But government sources told the Times that Sun was questioned about the gun, and told police he had given it to a man named Biniam Tsegai, an immigrant from Eritrea with a long rap sheet who goes by the name "Icy."
On May 23, 2013, Tsegai was arrested on a warrant connected to a 2009 robbery, and he was later charged with conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine, according to the Times.
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