Report to shed light on what really took place when FBI shot Ibragim Todashev

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7. FBI Agent Cleared in Boston Bombing-Linked Shooting Death

Source: ABC News

FBI Agent Cleared in Boston Bombing-Linked Shooting Death

March 25, 2014
By MIKE LEVINE and LEE FERRAN

A Florida state prosecutor and the Justice Department both announced today that they will not bring charges against an FBI agent involved in the controversial shooting of a man tied to one of the alleged Boston Marathon bombers.

Ibragim Todashev was killed in Orlando last May during an interview with an FBI and other law enforcement officials, who were looking into a connection between Todashev, alleged Boston bomber Tamerlane Tsarnaev and an unsolved triple murder in Massachusetts two years earlier.

According to the findings Florida State Attorney Jeffrey Ashton disclosed today, the actions of the FBI “were justified in self-defense and in defense of another.”

After more than four hours of questioning at Todashev’s home on May 22, 2013, law enforcement officials had Todashev sit down to pen a written statement , after which he expected to be arrested, Ashton said in a letter to FBI director James Comey explaining his decision. Other investigative documents released today include a report that says Todashev had admitted he was “involved” in the 2011 triple murder.

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