The producers of a Mark Wahlberg movie about the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings have asked for permission to film at the university attended by one of the bombers.
A spokesman for the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth tells The Standard-Times of New Bedford that school officials want to involve students and other stakeholders in the conversation before making a decision.
Location scouts for the movie "Patriots Day" have also reached out to residents of a Watertown neighborhood where police were involved in a shootout with brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, then a 19-year-old sophomore at UMass-Dartmouth, returned to campus after two explosions at the race finish line killed three and injured more than 260 people.
He was convicted at a federal trial and sentenced to death.
Marathon Bombing Movie Producers Want to Film at UMass
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, then a 19-year-old sophomore at UMass-Dartmouth, returned to campus after two explosions at the race finish line killed three and injured more than 260 people
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