A 27-year-old Orlando, Fla., man was shot and killed by the FBI overnight after being questioned in the Boston Marathon bombing, according to the Boston Herald.
According to multiple media reports, an FBI agent shot and killed a man in Orlando early Wednesday. An FBI post-shooting incident review team has been dispatched from Washington and is expected to arrive in Orlando within 24 hours.
The suspect has been identified as Ibragim Todashev of Peregrine Avenue, Orlando.
John Miller, the former FBI assistant director who now works for CBS News, is reporting the FBI was trying to re-question Todashev at his apartment when “something went wrong.”
Miller said the FBI agent fired shots, but details of the incident have not yet been released and it’s not known if Todashev had a gun. The Boston Herald earlier reported a “shootout” in Orlando involving the suspect and FBI agents, however that information has not been confirmed.
A man claiming to be the suspect’s friend told WFTV the man was being questioned by investigators about the Boston bombings. However, authorities have not confirmed that information.
The FBI told CNN an agent shot and killed a suspect “while conducting official duties” in Orlando, but did not elaborate.
Khasuen Taramov, who said he is a friend of the slain man, identified him as Ibragim Todashev, according to Central Florida News 13.
Todashev knew Tsarnaev a couple years ago when Todashev lived in Boston, and the FBI began questioning and following him and Taramov after the deadly April 15 Boston Marathon bombings, Taramov told Central Florida News 13.
“(Todashev) wasn’t like real close friends (with Tsarnaev), but he just happened to know him,” Todashev told the TV station. “… But he had no idea that they were up to something like that, like bombings and everything, you know what I mean?”
In a statement Wednesday, the FBI said, “We are currently responding to a shooting incident involving an FBI special agent. The incident occurred in Orlando Florida. The agent encountered the suspect while conducting official duties. The suspect is deceased. We do not have any further details at this time. We expect to have more information later this morning.”
Tamerlin Tsarnaev, the older of the two Boston bombings suspects, was killed in a shootout with police outside Boston in the days after the Marathon bombings.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s younger brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was arrested in connection with the bombings, which left three people dead and wounded 275.
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