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Man killed in FBI custody
An FBI agent shot and killed a Florida man who turned
violent while being questioned about the Boston Marathon bombings early
on Wednesday, the bureau said.
A friend of the dead man told the Orlando Sentinel and Orlando
television stations that he was 27-year-old Ibragim Todashev of Orlando,
a Chechen who had previously lived in Boston. Two brothers identified
by the FBI as suspects in the April 15 bombings were also ethnic
Chechens with roots in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region.
The
FBI said in a statement that a special agent, "acting on the imminent
threat posed by the individual, responded with deadly force. The
individual was killed and the special agent was transported to the
hospital with non-life threatening injuries."
It said the
shooting occurred in Orlando, Florida, while the special agent and other
law enforcement agents were interviewing the man about the blasts that
killed three people and injured 264 others at the finish line of the
Boston Marathon.
"A violent confrontation was initiated by the individual," the FBI said, without providing further details.
Todashev's
friend, Khusn Taramiv, said Todashev knew bombing suspect Tamerlan
Tsarnaev because both were mixed martial-arts fighters but had no
connection to the bombing.
"Back when he used to live in Boston,
right, they used to hang out," Taramiv told Central Florida News 13. "He
met them few times 'cause he was MMA fighter the other guy was boxer,
right. They just knew each other that's it."
The shooting
occurred at an Orlando apartment complex where several people of Chechen
descent lived. Taramiv said Todashev and others in the complex had been
questioned several times by law enforcement agents since the day the
Tsarnaev brothers were identified as the bombing suspects.
Tamerlan
Tsarnaev, 26, died in a gunfight with police. His brother, Dzhokhar
Tsarnaev, 19, was found hiding in a boat in Watertown, Massachusetts,
four days after the bombings. He was charged with crimes that could
carry the death penalty if he is convicted.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev had
been on a US government database of potential terrorism suspects and
the United States had twice been warned by Russia that he might be an
Islamic militant, according to US security officials.
In Florida,
the Orange County Sheriff's Office said Todashev had been arrested on
May 4 and charged with aggravated battery with great bodily harm.
Details about the circumstances of the arrest were not immediately
available.
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