Boston bombings suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev able to walk; talks to mother
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, younger of alleged bombers, talks by phone from prison hospital to his mother in Russia, who maintains his innocence
The remaining suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings has recovered enough to walk and assured his parents in a phone conversation that he and his slain brother were innocent, their mother said.
Meanwhile, the father of a Chechen immigrant killed in Florida while being interrogated by the FBI about his ties to the slain brother maintained that US agents "executed" his son.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, did not need to use a wheelchair when he spoke to his mother last week for the first and only phone conversation they have had since he has been in custody, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva said .
In a rare glimpse at Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's state of mind, he told her he was getting better and that he had a very good doctor, but was struggling to understand what happened, she said.
"He didn't hold back his emotions, as if he were screaming to the whole world: What is this? What's happening?" she said.
The April 15 bombings killed three people and wounded more than 260. Elder brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26 was killed in a shoot-out with police, and Dzhokhar is in a prison hospital after being badly wounded.