Katherine Russell is the widow of Boston bomber Tamerlan Tzarnaev and on Friday, April 19, her family released a statement addressing the death of their son-in-law and the tragedy that occurred at the Boston Marathon on April 15.

Three were killed and more than 1400 were injured when two bombs went off at the Boston Marathon. Authorities narrowed down their search to two suspects: Tamerlan Tzarnaev and his brother Dzhokhar Tzarnaev. Tamerlan died on Thursday night following a shootout with police and Dzhokhar fleed the scene but was captured late April 19.

Tamerlan's wife, Russell, was photographed in a leopard-print hijab as she tried to get into her home. New York Post reported that the 24-year-old came home to quickly collect her belongings - her cat, a shopping bag and duffel bag - before departing in a white Volvo where her 3-year-old daughter waited with a woman. See the photo of her outside her home here.

Russell was raised a Christian and converted to Islam after marrying Tsarnaev when she was a student, according to RadarOnline. Records show she attended Boston's Suffolk University from 2007 to 2010, but she did not graduate.

She is one of the Russells' three daughters and grew up in North Kingstown, Rhode Island where her father is a doctor and her mother, a nurse.

"Our daughter has lost her husband today, the father of her child," Katherine's parents Warren and Judith said in a statement to United Kingdom's MailOnline on April 15. "We cannot begin to comprehend how this horrible tragedy occurred. In the aftermath of the Patriot's Day horror, we know that we never really knew Tamerlane Tsarnaev."