Tamerlan Tsarnaev's family is having a tough time trying bury their loved one's body. Tamerlan and his younger brother Dzhokhar are suspected in the Boston Marathon bombings on April 16 that resulted in the death of three people and injured more than 260.
Three days after the bombing, Tamerlan was shot and killed during a gun battle. His brother went into hiding and after an intense manhunt, was captured.
Tamerlan and Dzhokhar's family has arrived in Massachusetts to handle funeral arrangements, but have faced trouble in the Cambridge area where the two boys lived prior to the attacks.
Cemeteries are refusing to allow the body of Tamerlan to be buried there. City manager Robert Healy said the body was not welcomed. According to the Daily Mail, Healy felt it would not be a good idea to have the body laid to rest in the town.
"I have determined that it is not in the best interest of peace within the city to execute a cemetery deed for a plot within the Cambridge Cemetery for the body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev," Healey said.
Despite all the refusals from cemeteries, Peter Stefan, owner of a Worcester, Mass. funeral home is determined to have the body buried. He said that everyone deserves to have a dignified burial despite how they died.
"Is he a terrorist? Sure he is a terrorist, but I can't control what he did," Stefan told "Good Morning America". "But the person is dead, and burying a dead body, that's all it is."
The funeral home is being protested and Stefan said people have lined up outside of his business clearly upset with his decision to try and find a place for Tamerlan to be buried.
"My problem here is trying to find a gravesite," Stefan said. "A lot of people don't want to do it. They don't want to be involved with this. I keep bringing up the point of Lee Harvey Oswald, Timothy McVeigh or Ted Bundy. Somebody had to do those, too."
Every cemetery in Massachusetts has turned down the body. Stefan has now begun to reach out to cemeteries in New Jersey and Connecticut.
