Shooting of slaying suspect Ibragim Todashev in Florida involved FBI agent from Boston office
Source: Boston Globe
Ibragim Todashev, a 27-year-old mixed martial arts fighter formerly from Allston and Cambridge, was shot in the kitchen of his apartment after overturning a table and attacking the agent with a blade, the officials said.
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Some of Todashevs neighbors recalled hearing a series of loud bangs during the early morning hours Wednesday. But loud sounds after dark are commonplace at the condos, which sit in the shadow of Universal Studios, which holds frequent nighttime concerts and events.
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Todashevs friend Khusen Taramov, who accompanied Todashevs estranged wife to identify the body, said he was shown only part of his dead friends face and did not see any wound. But doctors told him his friend was shot multiple times, he said.
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He also cast doubt on reports that his friend had violently attacked the agent, saying that Todashev was recovering from a knee injury and that agents had kept tight control over him at prior interviews.
They wouldnt even let him go outside to smoke during these interviews, Taramov said
Read more: http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/05/24/shooting-slaying-suspect-ibragim-todashev-florida-involved-fbi-agent-from-boston-office/lQpwweme1EzUqINkue8fGO/story.html
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/24/ibragim-todashev-s-father-my-son-was-innocent.html
At least it's not good for the image
midnight
(26,624 posts)danger, I have become increasingly aware that these types of stories are becoming more believable...
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)such lengthy "questioning" did not involve a search for weapons at the outset.
Or why questioning for so many hours was at the guy's house.
midnight
(26,624 posts)temmer
(358 posts)this is what people don't seem to know. This is what his wife and a friend (who was also questioned one time) are saying, but you'll never see it on CNN.
In May, Todashev was questioned multiple times by the FBI. On 24th, he intended to go to Chechnya for family reasons. He was asked by the FBI to give them one more session. On the day of his death, he was being questioned already in the aftenoon, like his friend. Everything seemed to be in order. But apparently he got a very last visit in the evening which ended up with the shooting.
His wife, as I said, had to answer questions to the FBI, too. She says that the FBI was exclusively interested in Todashev's relationship to Tsarnaev, i.e, the bombing case. She says that never ever the FBI confronted her or him with the triple murder. Todashev's relationship to Brendan Mess, the drug dealer, was apparently loose and sketchy. They knew each other from the martial sports club. Todashev didn't smoke pot or drink or took other drugs.
As the triple murder was linked to Tsarnaev already on April 21th by the Boston Globe, the question may be allowed why Todashev was never asked about the incidence by the FBI if they had at least a litte piece of evidence that he was involved there.
It looks like Todashev had the big misfortune to be in the same martial sports club as Tsarnaev and Mess. This makes the circumstances of his death so outrageous.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Why would anyone agree to multiple FBI interviews without an attorney present?
Laurian
(2,593 posts)the benefit of the doubt on this one.
atreides1
(16,079 posts)temmer
(358 posts)the benefit of the doubt...
the guy had a hot temper, but he never used weapons AFAIK and he was certainly not irrational or stupid.
GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)which could be used to record these highly critical police interviews so his confession and violent outburst could be seen by all.