An FBI agent fatally shot a Chechen
man in Orlando, Florida early Wednesday after the man allegedly turned a
knife on the agent during questioning over his ties to Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
The deceased is 27-year-old Ibragim Todashev, who has been living in the U.S. since 2008, FBI Special Agent Dave Couvertier confirmed to MailOnline.
The shooting happened just after midnight Wednesday at Todashev's apartment complex near Universal Studios.
'The
agent, two Massachusetts State Police troopers, and other law
enforcement personnel were interviewing an individual in connection with
the Boston Marathon bombing investigation when a violent confrontation
was initiated by the individual,' the FBI said in a statement.
'During
the confrontation, the individual was killed and the agent sustained
non-life threatening injuries. 'Investigators
said Todashev is not suspected of playing a role in the bombings, but
that he had confessed to being involved in a Boston-area triple slaying
in 2011. No suspects had been arrested in that case, in which three men
were found in an apartment in Waltham, Mass. with their throats cut and marijuana covering their bodies.
Officials told NBC
that he became violent just as he was about to sign a written statement
based on his confession. The officials also told NBC that Todashev had
some connections with radical Chechen rebels.
The
FBI has been investigating Todashev for the last month and has
questioned him several times regarding his ties to 26-year-old Tsarnaev,
who was killed by
police in a shootout following the April 15 bombings. Tsarnaev's younger
brother, Dzhokhar, 19, has been charged in connection with the bombings
and is being held at a prison medical center outside Boston.
Khusn Taramiv, a friend of Todashev's, confirmed that he
knew Tsarnaev and that Todashev had been in contact with him via phone or Skype about
a week before the bombings.
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