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Emory Student Attended School with Boston Bombing Suspect

Benjamin Kramer-Roach said he went to Cambridge Rindge and Latin School with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who has been arrested in connection with the bombings.

An Emory University student found himself last week in the startling position of knowing one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects.

Benjamin Kramer-Roach, 21, said he attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin School in Massachusetts with Dzokhar Tsarnaev, the 19-year-old student who has been arrested in connection with the bombings and a violent shootout with police outside Boston early Friday morning, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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On Friday, Benjamin Kramer-Roach’s brother called and told him the name of one of the bombing suspects - Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. He immediately thought of his schoolmate, who he remembered being extremely nice.

“It’s very hard to mentally connect my animosity with someone who I knew, especially because I didn’t expect it,” said Kramer-Roach on Friday. “He is my brother’s age and he went to my high school and now the whole city is after him.”

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