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BOSTON – Just hours before one of the Boston Marathon suspects and his brother allegedly gunned down a campus police officer, authorities say he exchanged a series of text messages with a friend who’d become suspicious after seeing what looked like a familiar face being flashed on television.

Dias Kadyrbayev, a student at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, texted his college buddy Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, saying he looked like one of the bombing suspects.

“Tsarnaev’s return texts contained `lol’ and other things Kadyrbayev interpreted as jokes such as `you better not text me’ and `come to my room and take whatever you want,”‘ an FBI agent wrote in an affidavit. Read more