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Tsarnaev Friend Unarmed When Killed by FBI

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Many questions remain in the Chechen’s death.

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We still know little about the shooting that resulted in the death of a Chechen man who knew Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, but law-enforcement officials now say Ibragim Todashev was unarmed at the time. The 27-year-old was killed a week ago during an interview with FBI agents about his possible connection to a triple murder in Waltham, Massachusetts, in 2011. An anonymous official says Todashev lunged at an agent and overturned a table, but was not armed with a gun or knife.

Read it at The Washington Post