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Florida FBI kill man 'linked to Boston suspect Tsarnaev' Boston bomb investigators kill Florida man
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The FBI in Orlando, Florida, have shot a man they were questioning about possible links to Boston bombs suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, US media report. Boston bombing investigators have shot dead a man who became violent as they questioned him in Orlando, Florida, FBI officials say.
An FBI spokesman said they were responding to the incident and that the agent had shot and killed the man "while conducting official duties". The shooting took place early on Wednesday as law enforcement personnel interviewed 27-year-old Ibragim Todashev, according to officials.
NBC News quoted unnamed sources as saying the suspect had tried to attack an agent. FBI spokesman Paul Bresson said in a statement an FBI agent shot Todashev because of an "imminent threat".
Tsarnaev died in a shootout with police days after the deadly marathon blasts. The FBI agent was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Anonymous law enforcement officials and a friend of the man in Orlando said he had been killed on Tuesday night. US media reported that Todashev had known Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the Boston bombings suspect killed in a shootout with police days after last month's deadly marathon blasts.
Todashev was a mixed-martial arts fighters who, like Tsarnaev, had links to the Russian republic of Chechnya, according to reports.
FBI spokesman Dave Couvertier said in a statement: "The agent encountered the suspect while conducting official duties.FBI spokesman Dave Couvertier said in a statement: "The agent encountered the suspect while conducting official duties.
"The suspect is deceased. We do not have any further details at this time.""The suspect is deceased. We do not have any further details at this time."
Mr Couvertier identified the suspect as Ibragim Todashev. A friend of the dead man, Khusen Taramov, told Florida News 13 that the FBI began questioning and following Todashev soon after the Boston bombings.
A friend of the dead man told local media he had been questioned about the Boston bombing investigations. Mr Taramov was quoted as saying: "One day they started questioning us, next day after the bombing, not the bombing, after they found out the bombers were Chechnyans, and they started following us, watching us."
The 15 April blasts killed three people and injured 264 others at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. He told the news station that before the Boston bombings, Todashev had bought plane tickets to Chechnya, but that the FBI had pressured him into cancelling the flight.
Tsarnaev's brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, is being held in a prison hospital after being shot in the throat before capture. The Associated Press news agency meanwhile reports that Todashev was arrested earlier this month on suspicion of assault, after a dispute over a parking spot at an Orlando shopping centre.
He faces the death penalty if convicted. Todashev put a man in hospital with facial injuries during the fracas, according to a report from the Orange County Sheriff's Office.
The Boston Marathon blasts killed three people and injured 264 others on 15 April.
Tsarnaev's brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, is being held in a prison hospital after being shot before capture. He faces the death penalty if convicted.