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jakeXT

(10,575 posts)
Sat May 25, 2013, 04:28 AM May 2013

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 Todashev’s 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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Todashev’s friend Khusen Taramov, who accompanied ­Todashev’s estranged wife to identify the body, said he was shown only part of his dead friend’s 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 wouldn’t 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



“Before this trouble I thought America was a free democratic country, where unlike in Russia, laws worked,” Todashev said. “I was deeply mistaken—now I think Russia is a golden place compared to the United States. My attitude for America flipped 180 degrees in one minute.”

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
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midnight

(26,624 posts)
1. Since Valarie Plame and her husband exposed the lawlessness that put herself and her family in
Sat May 25, 2013, 04:48 AM
May 2013

danger, I have become increasingly aware that these types of stories are becoming more believable...

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
4. I was wondering why
Sat May 25, 2013, 08:57 AM
May 2013

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.

 

temmer

(358 posts)
9. He was being questioned for weeks
Sat May 25, 2013, 12:17 PM
May 2013

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)
12. My question has always been
Sat May 25, 2013, 07:01 PM
May 2013

Why would anyone agree to multiple FBI interviews without an attorney present?

 

temmer

(358 posts)
8. Given the FBI's violent past, I'll probably give the guy
Sat May 25, 2013, 11:56 AM
May 2013

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)
5. If only they could invent small video or sound recording devices
Sat May 25, 2013, 09:41 AM
May 2013

which could be used to record these highly critical police interviews so his confession and violent outburst could be seen by all.

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