Families of loved ones buried in the Mount Carmel Burying Grounds plan to protest one plot owner's offer to donate a plot to the family of alleged Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
Former Connecticut resident Paul Keane, who now lives in Vermont, made the offer Monday after a Massachusetts funeral director made public his struggle to find any cemetery that would accept Tsarnaev's remains.
Keane said he was motivated to make the offer by his late mother, who taught Sunday school at the Mount Carmel Congregational Church and lived by the motto, "love thy enemy."
But many Hamden residents don't agree and want nothing to do with Tsarnaev and his remains. NBC Connecticut News is reporting that families are planning to protest Keane's offer today at 3:30 p.m. at the Mount Carmel Burying Grounds.
On the Hamden Patch Facebook page, reaction to the prospect of the alleged bomber being laid to rest in Hamden is overwhelmingly negative.
Many say that Tsarnaev should not be buried anywhere on American soil, and should be send back to his homeland for burial or should be cremated and his ashes scattered at sea.
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