WASHINGTON, May 6 (RAPSI) – The mother of suspected Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev over the weekend called the Massachusetts funeral home where his body is currently being held and said she wants his remains to be shipped to Russia, the director of the facility said Monday.

“The woman was in tears,” Peter Stefan, director of the Graham Putnam & Mahoney Funeral Parlor in the city of Worcester, 40 miles (64 kilometers) west of Boston, told the Boston Herald.

“She just said, ‘It would be nice if you could get him home,’” Stefan was quoted as saying.

Cemeteries in Massachusetts have refused to provide a gravesite for Tsarnaev, 26, who is suspected together with his 19-year-old brother Dzhokhar of planting two bombs at the finish line of the Boston Marathon that killed three people, including an eight-year-old boy  on April 15. More than 260 people were reported as injured.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was detained later on April 19 following a massive manhunt in and around Boston, and is being held at a prison medical facility in Massachusetts.

The parents of the brothers are currently living in Russia’s republic of Dagestan, and Stefan told local media that the alleged bomber’s body had been cleansed and wrapped in the Muslim tradition.

“It’d be a great idea if we could send him to Russia, but I would have to have something from the State Department. This is a national security situation. We can’t just send a body over like we’re dumping it,” Stefan told The Boston Herald.

The exasperated funeral parlor director said he would be willing to pay the few thousand dollars necessary to ship the remains to Russia.

Stefan’s comments came on the same day that a community activist in Worcester launched a drive to drum up several thousand dollars to send Tsarnaev’s body to Russia.

The community activist, William Breault, told a news conference Monday that he had already contributed $500 of his own money to a fund that he estimates will need to collect between $3,000 and $7,000 dollars to ship the remains.

Tsarnaev’s body was released by the authorities on Thursday and later taken to Graham Putnam and Mahoney Funeral Parlors in Worcester after originally having been taken to a different funeral parlor, where about 20 protesters gathered, The Associated Press reported.