UPDATED: Report Details Killing Of Bombing Suspect's Friend
Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS
MIKE SCHNEIDER – MARCH 26, 2014, 8:23 AM EDT
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A Chechen mixed-martial-arts fighter grew increasingly agitated as he wrote a confession about his role in a 2011 triple slaying that got renewed attention after the Boston Marathon bombing, flipping a coffee table at an FBI agent and charging a Massachusetts State Police trooper with a pole before the agent shot him dead, according to an investigative report.
The report released by State Attorney Jeff Ashton's office in Orlando on Tuesday cleared the FBI agent of any criminal charges in the fatal shooting of 27-year-old Ibragim Todashev last May. Separately, the Justice Department filed its own report Tuesday, echoing the Florida findings.
Todashev was shot after being questioned in his Orlando, Fla., apartment for nearly five hours by the FBI agents and two troopers about the 2011 triple murder in Waltham, Mass. The FBI learned of Todashev during their investigation into his former sparring buddy, Boston marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
It wasn't long before authorities focused on whether the men had any involvement in the Waltham killings. In that case, three men were found in an apartment with their necks slit and their bodies reportedly covered with marijuana. One of the victims was a boxer and Tsarnaev's friend.
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Reports Make Ibragim Todashev's Death at the Hands of FBI Clearer (and Weirder)
The FBI agent who shot and killed murder suspect Ibragim Todashev during an interrogation in Florida was cleared of criminal responsibility for the death in a pair of reports on Tuesday. But the reports — one from the DOJ's Civil Rights division, and another from a Florida prosecutor — don't seem to answer all of the questions circulating from the death of Todashev, who faced questioning in connection to an unsolved 2011 triple homicide. Investigators believed that homicide had a connection to Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of two brothers behind the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombings.
Things got even more complicated late on Tuesday, when Boston Magazine published an image of what could be the unfinished confession letter Todashev wrote by hand during the interview where he was killed. The image corresponds with that of a redacted photo released in the Florida prosecutor's report, although the authenticity is not verified. According to Boston Magazine's transcription, the letter reads:
My name is IBRAGIM TODASHEV
I wanna tell the story about the robbery
me and Tam did in Waltham in September
of 2011. That was (?) by Tamerlan.
(?) [?] he (?) to me to rob
the drug dealers. We went to their
house we got in there and Tam had
a gun he pointed it (?) the guy that
opened the door for us (?)
we went upstairs into the house
(?) 3 guys in there (?) we put them
on the ground and then we (?)
(?) taped their hands up
The existence of the written confession, it should be noted, is firmly in the "what we know" category about Todashev's death, even before the release of today's reports. We know law enforcement officers went to his Florida home several months after the Boston bombings to question the Chechen about the 2011 triple murder and his relationship to Tsarnaev. After several hours of questioning, we know Todashev was ready to confess. What we didn't know is how the situation changed from Todashev's confessing his crime to his shooting death at the hands of an unnamed FBI agent.
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A pole? What kind? where did it come from?
What about the knife? 