Published time: May 30, 2013 00:50
Ibragim Todashev, who was killed during an FBI interview last week, was unarmed when he was fatally shot, fueling speculation that his association with Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was enough, in the eyes of police, to be fatal.
The death of Ibragim Todashev has been shrouded in mystery since
he was mortally wounded during an interview with FBI agents on
May 22. Before Wednesday’s admission that the 27-year-old was
unarmed at the time of his death, investigators offered
conflicting accounts of what happened in Todashev’s final
minutes.
Todashev associated with Tamerlan Tsarnaev from mixed martial
arts and boxing circles in the Boston area before he moved from
Cambridge, Massachusetts to Orlando, Florida. FBI officials
maintained he was never a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing.
Investigators did say, however, that the matter would be the
subject of a probe that is expected to last for several
months.
“The FBI takes very seriously any shooting incidents involving
our agents and as such we have an effective, time-tested process
for addressing them internally,” FBI spokesman Paul Bresson
said in a statement Wednesday.
“The review process is thorough and objective and conducted as
expeditiously as possible under the circumstances.”
This article originally appeared on: RT