Ibragim Todashev

Ibragim Todashev was a Chechen American former mixed martial artist and a possible friend of suspected Boston Marathon bomber and former amateur boxer, Tamerlan Tsarnaev. At his apartment in Orlando, Florida, he was shot dead by FBI agent Aaron McFarlane during a police interview on May 22, 2013. He had allegedly attacked the agent, with a pipe or stick, while writing a statement about the Boston Marathon bombings and a triple homicide that took place in Waltham, Massachusetts, on September 11, 2011. The investigators involved in the incident said that Todashev had implicated both himself and Tamerlan Tsarnaev in the Waltham murders before he was killed.

Ibragim Todashev was born on September 22, 1985 in the ChechenIngush capital Grozny during the Soviet era, as the eldest ofchildren of Abdulbaki Todashev and his two wives. During the 1990s, his family fled wartorn Chechnya to Russias Saratov Oblast. They resided there until the late 2000s, before moving back to Grozny, where his father became a highranking proMoscow official in the city administration in 2008.

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