Tamerlan Tsarnaev once took part in a shootout with the police.
Tamerlan Anzorovich Tsarnaev (; October 21, 1986  April 19, 2013) was an American-based Chechen terrorist and former boxer of Chechen and Avar descent  who, with his brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, planted pressure cooker bombs at the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013
 Anzor Tsarnaev applied for asylum, citing fears of deadly persecution due to his ties to Chechnya

