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FBI kill Florida man known to Boston bombing suspects

MIAMI - A man known to the Boston Marathon bombers was shot and killed Wednesday by an Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent after he turned violent during questioning, the investigating agency said. The Orlando Sentinel newspaper identified the man as Ibragim Todashev, 27. He was killed in the early morning incident in Orlando, Florida. The FBI said the shooting occurred in Orlando, ...
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Ibragim Todashevs wife defends him

ORLANDO, Fla - Reniya Manukyan, although estranged from her husband, is standing by him and denies his involvement in a triple slaying and the Boston bombings. Ibragim Todashev, 27, was gunned down at his Orlando home during a meeting with FBI agents and two Massachusetts state troopers Tuesday night, authorities said. Todashev, according to his roommates, was questioned multiple times by the ...
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FBI kill Florida man known to Boston bombing suspects

MIAMI - A man known to the Boston Marathon bombers was shot and killed Wednesday by an Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent after he turned violent during questioning, the investigating agency said.

The Orlando Sentinel newspaper identified the man as Ibragim Todashev, 27. He was killed in the early morning incident in Orlando, Florida.

The FBI said the shooting occurred in Orlando, Florida, while the special agent and two Massachusetts state troopers and other law enforcement personnel 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, adding 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".

The FBI initially said their agent had killed Todashev, but an updated statement left unclear the question of who had fired the deadly shot.

Police have blocked off the apartment complex where the Chechen immigrant was shot.

Todashev was reported to be a friend of dead Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, whom he knew through their shared hobby of mixed martial-arts fighting. ...