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NBC: FBI kills man suspected of ties to Boston bomb suspect

By REUTERS

MAY 22, 2013 15:42

MIAMI - An FBI agent shot and killed a Florida man with suspected links to the Boston Marathon bombings early on Wednesday, NBC News reported.

NBC said the suspect was being questioned and was originally cooperative, but was fatally shot after attacking the agent.

The Orlando Sentinel said a friend had identified the dead man as 27-year-old Ibragim Todashev of Orlando. The newspaper quoted the friend, Khusn Taramiv, as saying Todashev was being investigated as part of the Boston bombings and knew bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev because both were mixed martial-arts fighters.

Reuters could not immediately reach the FBI for comment.

FBI spokesman Dave Couvertier told the Sentinel that "the agent encountered the suspect while conducting official duties," but did not confirm the dead man's identify nor any link to the Boston bombings.

Tsarnaev, 26, died in a gunfight with police. His brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was found hiding in a boat in Watertown, Massachusetts, four days after the April 15 blasts, which killed three people and injured 264 others at the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

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