A fitting end to a stumbling terrorist. Run over by your younger terrorist brother and drug under his car. Cause of death gun shot wounds and blunt force trauma.

Gun, blunt force killed Boston bombing suspect

• By Bridget Murphy and Bob Salsberg
• Associated Press
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Boston —A suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings died from gunshot wounds and blunt trauma to his head and torso, a funeral director said Friday.

Worcester funeral home owner Peter Stefan has 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev's body and read details from his death certificate, which cites Tsarnaev's "gunshot wounds of torso and extremities" and lists the time of his death as 1:35 a.m. April 19, four days after the bombing.

Tsarnaev died after a gunfight with authorities who had launched a massive manhunt for him and his brother. Police have said he ran out of ammunition before his younger brother dragged his body under a vehicle while fleeing.

The funeral parlor in Worcester is familiar with Muslim services and said it will handle arrangements for Tamerlan Tsarnaev, whose body was released by the state medical examiner Thursday night.

The body initially was taken to a North Attleborough funeral home, where it was greeted by about 20 protesters.

Stefan, owner of Graham Putnam and Mahoney Funeral Parlors in Worcester, an hour's drive west of Boston, said everybody deserves a dignified burial service no matter the circumstances of his or her death.

In other developments, a bathtub and kitchen sink in the Cambridge, Mass., apartment of Tamerlan Tsarnaev tested positive for residue from explosives.

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