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Bombing Suspect Played Intramural Indoor Soccer at UMass-Dartmouth
Former teammate surprised Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev is suspect in Boston Marathon bombing.
The second Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev played intramural indoor soccer at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth.
Mark Hassin, a former Dartmouth resident, played on the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth intramural indoor soccer team with Tsarnaev for about a year. He said it was a surprise when he woke up Friday morning to calls informing him that his former teammate is allegedly responsible for not only the marathon bombings, but for killing Massachusetts Institute of Technology officer Sean Collier.
“He was really nice,” Hassin said. “You couldn't tell he had a single bad bone in his body.”
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Hassin played on the team with him a year and a half ago as a sophomore. During the year they played together, Hassin said he didn't know Tsarnaev well, but he seemed like a “cool guy.”
“He was one of the better players,” Hassin said.
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The UMass-Dartmouth campus was closed this morning.
(Mark Hassin is a cousin of Seekonk-Swansea Patch Community Editor Kelly A. Mello.)
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