The Federal Bureau of Investigation has confirmed that a man with possible ties to Boston Marathon Bomber, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was shot and killed in Orlando, Fla., during an official investigation.
According to The New York Times, bureau headquarters dispatched a shooting response unit to a Florida apartment complex and a man known as Ibragim Todashev, 27, was fatally injured in an altercation after he violently attacked an FBI agent.
The FBI has confirmed that the agent shot and killed the suspect while conducting official duties.
In the weeks following the Boston Marathon Bombings, the FBI has been consistently investigating possible terror affiliates to gain knowledge on the radicalization of the Tamerlan and his brother, Dzhokar, and as a part of these efforts, they came across Todashev.
The link between the men is not entirely clear just yet, but WCVB is reporting that both were MMA fighters. Another man, Khusen Taramov, who knew the suspect, and was also being questioned said that "something went wrong" in the course of a nearly three-hour-long interview conducted by agents.
"There was some sort of aggressive movement that led the FBI. agent to believe he was under threat and he opened fire," law enforcement said.
"When (Todashev) used to live in Boston, they used to hang out - not hang out - he knew him... They just knew each other. That's it," alleged Taramov.
Other names that have come up in the investigation are Musa Khadzhimuratov, 36, and his wife, Medina, 32.
The Boston Marathon Bombings took place on April 15, when two pressure cookers acting as explosives detonated - one near the finish line at Boylston Street, and the other 210 yards away - killing three people and injuring 264.
One suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in an altercation with police shortly after the bombings, and his younger brother, Dzhokhar, was captured and was formally charged on April 22 in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, and is being held at Fort Devens, a federal prison medical facility, under solitary confinement.
