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Chechen Shot Dead by FBI in Florida Was Unarmed

HeadlineMay 30, 2013

Law enforcement officials have admitted a Chechen man questioned for his ties to the Boston Marathon bombers was unarmed when FBI agents shot him dead in Florida last week. Agents were questioning Ibragim Todashev at his Orlando apartment when he allegedly tried to attack them. But The Washington Post is now reporting that while he lunged at an agent and overturned a table, Todashev had neither a knife or a gun. The Council on American-Islamic Relations is asking the Justice Department to review the killing.

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