He described him as a devout Muslim and a soccer fan who is from the city of Medina in Saudi Arabia.
‘He’s a good boy. I think he couldn’t do that.’
He is in Boston attending an English language school in greater Boston, the roommate said, adding that he last saw him on Sunday
It is not clear if agents found anything in the raid, but Revere fire officials said they were called out to support bomb-squad officers as part of the investigation of the ‘person of interest’.
At Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, investigators seized the man’s clothes to examine whether they held any evidence that he was behind the attack, which is being called the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11.
Law sources told the New York Post that after the man was grabbed by police, he smelled of gun powder and said, ‘I thought there would be a second bomb’ before asking, ‘Did anyone die?’
The Saudi man was tackled by a bystander by the scene who thought he was acting suspiciously.
Investigators were seen leaving the scene with brown paper evidence bags, trash bags and a duffel bag.