A killer, a friend: Tsarnaev's classmates to premiere film

BOSTON (AP) — Among the many people forced to come to terms with the death and destruction caused by the Boston Marathon bombings were the teenage friends of bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Three years later, two of Tsarnaev's friends from high school are getting ready to premiere a short film they made to capture the range of emotions they felt after learning the 19-year-old had played a major role in an attack that killed three people and injured more than 260.

Written by Henry Hayes and Zolan Kanno-Youngs — both high school classmates of Tsarnaev's at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School — the film captures the feelings they and other friends had in the days after the bombings: from shock to bewilderment to anger.

Zolan Kanno-Youngs, who worked at The Boston Globe as a co-op student at the time, said the film isn't meant to be a piece of investigative journalism.

The film opens with Jackson waking up to see his college roommates hunched in front of a TV, watching news coverage days after the bombings, after Tsarnaev and his brother engaged in a shootout with Watertown, Massachusetts, police as authorities closed in on them.