Reports are circulating around an Armenian convert to Islam named Misha and the potential influence he had over Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

Two relatives of the late suspect, who died April 18 following a shootout with police, said Tsarnaev came under the influence of a man named Misha who preached to him in his kitchen and introduced him to a radical form of Islam, The Associated Press reported Tuesday. Tsarnaev's uncle Ruslan Tsarni and his former brother-in-law in Kazakhstan, Elmirza Khozhugov, said Misha was heavyset, bald, around 30, and had a long reddish beard.

'"It started in 2009. And it started right there, in Cambridge,' Tsarnaev's uncle Ruslan Tsarni told CNN from his home in Maryland. "This person just took his brain. He just brainwashed him completely."

Tsarnaev's family said after Misha came along, the 26-year-old bombing suspect gave up boxing and stopped studying music. He also began opposing the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

However, some non-family Armenian Americans said it is very unlikely an Armenian would become a Muslim. Nerses Zurabyan, a 32-year-old information technology direction living Cambridge, told USA Today, "For an Armenian to convert to Islam is like finding a unicorn in a field."

"It would be such a shock to the Armenian community that everyone would know this person," he added.

Zurabyan and others gathered outside St. Stephen's Armenian Apostolic Church on Wednesday to commemorate 98 years since the start of the conflict that Armenians describe as genocide by Ottoman Turks. Over the centuries Islam has dominated Armenia but as they suffered many massacres Zurbyan said "even in the face of extinction, [Armenians] did not convert."

Authorities have yet to locate Misha, according to Daily Mail. He has moved out of the Cambridge Mass., area and his location has yet to be identified.