A news helicopter hovered overhead, along with a swarm of television news trucks in what is ordinarily a tranquil meadow in a large, wooded section within sight of a roller coaster at the Kings Dominion amusement park along Interstate Imam Ammar Amonette, of the Islamic Center of Virginia , said that his group was never consulted and that Mullen reached out to a separate group, the Islamic Society of Greater Richmond. Frankly, we are furious that we were never given any information.
It was all done secretly behind our backs," Amonette said, adding it "makes no sense whatsoever" that Tsarnaev's body was buried in Virginia. The Islamic Society of Greater Richmond didn't immediately respond to an email seeking confirmation that it was involved in the burial.
Jaquese Goodall, who lives less than a quarter-mile away down a winding country lane, said a rope usually blocks the gravel road leading to the cemetery.
She had no idea when the body was buried and never saw hearses enter or leave the property. Tsarnaev's death certificate was released Friday. It showed he was shot by police in the firefight the night of April 18, run over and dragged by a vehicle, and died a few hours later on April Authorities have said his brother ran over him in his getaway attempt.
But there's a moral issue here. Local officials asked Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to look into whether any laws were broken in carrying out the hushed burial. If not, there's likely nothing they can do. Lane Kneedler, an attorney who represented the Virginia Cemetery Association when the law was drafted to regulate for-profit cemeteries in the late s, said private and church burial grounds are not regulated by the state and only have to meet local zoning requirements.
He said that once a cemetery is approved and operating, only its owner controls who is buried there. The cemetery where Tsarnaev is buried contains 47 graves, all covered Friday with reddish-brown mulch except for two that appeared newly dug and were unmarked. On one of the new graves lay a vase full of roses at one end and a single red rose at the other end.
The other new grave was bare. State police cruisers, county sheriff's cars and black unmarked sedans with their emergency lights concealed cruised back and forth past the cemetery, officers inside them eyeing everything for any sign of trouble as reporters on the ground and those in helicopters high overhead broadcast the gravesite's location to the world.
Meanwhile, Tsarnaev's death certificate was released Friday. It shows he was shot by police in the firefight the night of April 18, run over and dragged by a vehicle, and died a few hours later on April Authorities have said his younger brother, Dzhokhar, ran over him in his getaway attempt.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured later and remains in custody. After six days at the funeral home, Mr. Tsarnaev in one of its cemetery plots. Culley Jr. The problem of what to do with the body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing, was solved when a small cemetery agreed to take it. Site Navigation Site Mobile Navigation.
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