Candles are lit for those who died in the Boston Marathon bombings and the subsequent police manhunt at a memorial on Boylston Street in Boston, Massachusetts April 21, 2013. Two explosions hit the Boston Marathon April 15 killing at least three people and injuring over 100 others. Krystle Campbell, Lu Lingz and Martin Richard were killed in the bombings while MIT police officer Sean Collier was killed during the manhunt for the suspects. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
The casket containing the body of Krystle Campbell arrives at St. Joseph Church for her funeral Mass in Medford, Massachusetts April 22, 2013. Campbell died in the two explosions that hit the Boston Marathon on April 15 killing at least three people and injuring more than 100 others. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Mourners wait outside for the funeral of Krystle Campbell at St. Joseph Church in Medford, Massachusetts April 22, 2013. Krystle Campbell died in the two explosions that hit the Boston Marathon on April 15 killing at least three people and injuring more than 100 others. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
A mourner watches from a tree branch before the funeral for Krystle Campbell at St. Joseph Church in Medford, Massachusetts April 22, 2013. Krystle Campbell died in the two explosions that hit the Boston Marathon on April 15 killing at least three people and injuring more than 100 others. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
A woman carries a sign before the funeral for Krystle Campbell at St. Joseph Church in Medford, Massachusetts April 22, 2013. Krystle Campbell died in the two explosions that hit the Boston Marathon on April 15 killing at least three people and injuring more than 100 others. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Mourners watch as friends and family of Krystle Campbell arrive for her funeral at St. Joseph Church in Medford, Massachusetts April 22, 2013. Krystle Campbell died in the two explosions that hit the Boston Marathon on April 15 killing at least three people and injuring more than 100 others. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Hundreds of people wait in a line that extends around the block to pay their respects to the family of Krystle Campbell at her wake in Medford, Massachusetts April 21, 2013. Krystle Campbell died in the two explosions that hit the Boston Marathon on April 15 which killed three people and injured 176. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
A runner wears a message pinned to his shirt after completing the London Marathon on the Mall in central London, April 21, 2013. Undaunted by the Boston Marathon bombings, big crowds lined the route of London 's mass road race on Sunday to cheer on around 36,000 runners, many of whom wore black ribbons to remember the dead and wounded. REUTERS/Andrew Winning
Investigators stand behind a barricade and memorial surrounding the site of the Boston Marathon bombings in Boston, Massachusetts April 21, 2013. Two explosions hit near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, killing three people and wounding 176. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Runners participated in the Yonge Street 10k, the first major race this season in Toronto. There was a moment of silence as runners remembered Boston, scene of last weeks terrorist attacks. Stan Behal/QMI Agency
Well wishers hug as others wait in a line that extends around the block to pay their respects to the family of Krystle Campbell at her wake in Medford, Massachusetts April 21, 2013. Krystle Campbell died in the two explosions that hit the Boston Marathon on April 15 which killed three people and injured 176. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Two-year-old Wesley Brillant of Natick, Massachusetts kneels in front of a memorial to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings near the scene of the blasts on Boylston Street in Boston, Massachusetts, April 21, 2013. REUTERS/Jim Bourg
A couple embraces at a memorial on Boylston Street to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings in Boston, Massachusetts April 21, 2013. Two explosions hit the Boston Marathon on April 15 killing at least three people and injuring over 100 others. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
A mother and her son attend an interfaith worship service at a memorial on Boylston Street for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings in Boston, Massachusetts April 21, 2013. Two explosions hit near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, killing three people and wounding 176. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
A woman holds a flower at a memorial on Boylston Street to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings in Boston, Massachusetts April 21, 2013. Two explosions hit the Boston Marathon April 15 killing at least three people and injuring over 100 others. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
A mother holds the hands of her son as they attend an interfaith worship service at a memorial on Boylston Street for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings in Boston, Massachusetts April 21, 2013. Two explosions hit near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, killing three people and wounding 176. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Hundreds of people wait in a line that extends around the block to pay their respects to the family of Krystle Campbell at her wake in Medford, Massachusetts April 21, 2013. Krystle Campbell died in the two explosions that hit the Boston Marathon on April 15 which killed three people and injured 176. REUTERS/Brian Snyder (UNITED STATES - Tags: CRIME LAW OBITUARY)
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ORLANDO, Fla./WASHINGTON - An FBI agent shot and killed a Florida man who turned violent while being questioned about the Boston Marathon bombings early on Wednesday, the bureau said.
A friend of the dead man told the Orlando Sentinel and Orlando television stations that he was 27-year-old Ibragim Todashev of Orlando, a Chechen who had previously lived in Boston. Two brothers identified by the FBI as suspects in the April 15 bombings were also ethnic Chechens with roots in Russia?s volatile North Caucasus region.
The FBI said in a statement that a special agent, ?acting on the imminent threat posed by the individual, responded with deadly force. The individual was killed and the special agent was transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.?
It said the shooting occurred in Orlando, Florida, while the special agent and other law enforcement agents were interviewing the man about the blasts that killed three people and injured 264 others at the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
?A violent confrontation was initiated by the individual,? the FBI said, without providing further details.
Todashev?s friend, Khusn Taramiv, said Todashev knew bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev because both were mixed martial-arts fighters but had no connection to the bombing.
?Back when he used to live in Boston, right, they used to hang out,? Taramiv told Central Florida News 13. ?He met them few times ?cause he was MMA fighter the other guy was boxer, right. They just new each other that?s it.?
The shooting occurred at an Orlando apartment complex where several people of Chechen descent lived. Taramiv said Todashev and others in the complex had been questioned several times by law enforcement agents since the day the Tsarnaev brothers were identified as the bombing suspects.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died in a gunfight with police. His brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was found hiding in a boat in Watertown, Massachusetts, four days after the bombings. He was charged with crimes that could carry the death penalty if he is convicted.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev had been on a U.S. government database of potential terrorism suspects and the United States had twice been warned by Russia that he might be an Islamic militant, according to U.S. security officials.
In Florida, the Orange County Sheriff?s Office said Todashev had been arrested on May 4 and charged with aggravated battery with great bodily harm. Details about the circumstances of the arrest were not immediately available.
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