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UPDATE: 4:45PM EST

Ibrahim Todashev implicated himself and Tamerlan Tsarnaev in an unsolved triple homicide before authorities say he instigated a violent confrontation that resulted in his death early Wednesday morning, CBS News correspondent Bob Orr reports.

Law enforcement sources told Orr that the man, a Chechen identified as Ibragim Todashev, implicated himself and Tsarnaev to authorities in the 2011 killings in Waltham, Mass., under questioning Wednesday at Todashev’s apartment in Orlando, Fla.

Authorities went to the apartment after having obtained what the sources described as strong evidence to suggest that Todashev, Tsarnaev and his brother Dzhokhar were involved in the killings on the tenth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. The FBI had already interviewed Todashev more than once before Wednesday.

Sometime after midnight Wednesday morning in Orlando, an FBI special agent from the bureau’s Boston field office was accompanied by at least two troopers from the Massachusetts State Police and a Joint Terrorism Task Force agent to question Todashev, the sources said. The questioning primarily focused on the 2011 killings.

While the FBI’s investigation into Wednesday’s shooting is ongoing, the preliminary details are that after Todashev implicated himself and Tamerlan Tsarnaev he became angered when authorities pressed him for a full confession, the sources said. Todashev brandished a knife, prompting the officials to feel that their lives were in danger.

The Tsarnaev brothers and Todashev apparently knew the three people killed in Waltham, the sources said, describing the 2011 killings as brutal and grisly, with all three bodies nearly decapitated. The bodies had marijuana and thousands of dollars in cash sprinkled on them.

Todashev lived in the Boston area at the time of the killings and was friends with Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who died in a shootout with authorities in the days after the April 15 marathon attack. It’s unclear what kind of a relationship Todashev had with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who remains in federal custody awaiting trial.

 

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Ibrahim Todashev, 27, a man from Chechnya with links to one of the Boston bombing suspects, was shot and killed by an FBI agent early Wednesday after allegedly becoming violent during questioning at an Orlando apartment. During the questioning, Todashev allegedly attacked an agent with a knife, stabbing him several times. The agent sustained non-life threatening injuries.

Although Todashev was not suspected of having played any role in the Boston bombing that killed three people and injured scores more in April, he did confess to being involved in a brutal Boston-area triple homicide in 2011.

Todashev was shot just after midnight at 6022 Peregrine Avenue in the Windhover Apartments near Universal Orlando. 

Click Orlando reports:

“The agent encountered the suspect while conducting official duties. The suspect is deceased,” FBI Special Agent Dave Couvertier told Local 6.

The FBI said Todashev became violent during questioning about Boston bombing case.  Further details have not yet been released and it’s not known if Todashev had a gun.

The FBI said a post-shooting incident review team has been dispatched from Washington and will arrive in Orlando by Thursday.

Khusen Taramov, a friend of Todashev, told Local 6 that Todashev knew Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed in a shootout with police near Boston days after the marathon bombing.

“Back when (Todashev) used to live in Boston, they used to hang out — not hang out — he knew him.  They met a few times because (Todashev) was a MMA fighter and (Tsarnaev) was a boxer.  They just knew each other.  That’s it,” said Taramov, who added that Todashev last spoke with Tsarnaev via phone more than a month ago.

Taramov adamantly stated that Todashev, who was arrested in Orlando earlier this month on charges of aggravated battery with great bodily harm, was not connected to the bombing.

“I know that for sure,” he said.

Taramov said the FBI had been watching and following Todashev since Tsarnaev was identified as a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing.

“We had a feeling that a worse-case scenario, that something like (a shooting) is going to happen,” said Taramov, who added that Todashev had recently booked a plane ticket.

“He had a ticket to New York.  From there, he was going to go home,” he said.  “(The FBI was) pushing him to stay, saying, ‘We want to interview one last time.'”

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SOURCE: Click Orlando