About a month before April 15, Azamat Tazhayakov was having a meal with his roommate Dias Kadyrbayev and their friend Dzhokhar Tsarnaev when, according to court documents, Tsarnaev told them that he knew how to make a bomb.Tazhayakov and Kadyrbayev met Tsarnaev in 2011, when they all began attending the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. Tazhayakov and Kadyrbayev, both from Kazakhstan, shared an apartment in New Bedford, Mass., and Tsarnaev had spent a lot of time there in recent months. He was there with Tazhayakov, court records show, until about midnight on April 17, two days after the bombing.
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