ORLANDO, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35 ORLANDO) -
A man who was shot dead by an FBI agent late Tuesday night in Orlando knew one of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings, a man identified as friend of the shooting victim said Wednesday.
The suspect was identified by the FBI as Ibragim Todashev.
The FBI agent encountered Todashev while "conducting official duties," agent Dave Couvertier said in a statement. The FBI has not confirmed whether the shooting is related to the Boston bombing investigation.
A man at the scene on Peregrine Avenue near Kirkman and Vineland roads who identified himself as a friend of Todashev said Todashev knew Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the older brother suspected in the April 15 bombings that killed three and injured more than 260.
Khusen Taramov said he and Todashev had no connection with the Boston bombings, but the FBI had been questioning them since then. Taramov said Todashev had lived in Boston at one point, and he and Tsarnaev were mixed-martial-arts fighters. He said the two were not friends but only acquaintances through their MMA fighting.
"He used to talk on the phone with him [Tsarnaev]," Taramov said of Todashev. "They talked last time a month ago. After the bombing, I couldn't believe it," he said.
Taramov said ever since the bombings, he and Todashev had been questioned and followed by the FBI.
"The FBI kept asking, 'What's the connection?' But there is no connection... no connection."
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