Tsarnaev Claims Innocence In Phone Conversation With Mother

The mother of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev said she spoke to the younger surviving brother accused of planning and executing the Boston Marathon Bombings, and he maintains his innocence.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was charged in April with "using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death and with malicious destruction of property resulting in death" as part of the terror investigation that left three dead and more than 200 Bostonians and tourists injured.

Tsarnaev's mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaev, told the Associated Press that he was able to walk to the phone to call her for the first time since his arrest.

The news firm met with the Tsarnaev family in their new home in Dagestan, an affluent neighborhood outside the city. The family planned to renovate the home to add a suitable dentist's office for Dzhokhar who, the family believed, was a dental hygiene student.

In a report by The Atlantic Wire, the stories that Dzhokhar told his parents regarding dental hygiene school were actually false. He was in fact an undergraduate student at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

In their recent conversation Zubeidat said her son was receiving more than adequate medical attention and that he was getting better, but could not completely understand what happened.

She maintains her sons' innocence and that U.S. officials framed the men in an elaborate scheme that transpired over a number of years.

"He didn't hold back his emotions either, as if he were screaming to the whole world: What is this? What's happening?" his mother said "I could just feel that he was being driven crazy by the unfairness that happened to us, that they killed our innocent Tamerlan."

In the interview, the suspect's father, Anzor Tsarnaev, shared that all he does is pray for his son and hopes that justice will prevail.

"All I can do is pray to God and hope that one day fairness will win out, our children will be cleared, and we will at least get Dzhokhar back, crippled, but at least alive," he said.