Ibragim Todashev’s family says he was killed in cold blood during a interrogation by FBI agents in 2013.
Ibragim Todashev
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Lawyers for Todashev's parents filed a notice of claim Monday alleging that agent Aaron McFarlane illegally shot the 27-year-old while questioning him in his apartment in Orlando, Florida, about a triple-homicide allegedly carried out by Todashev and deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
"We started this process in order to bring justice for our son and to hold accountable those who were guilty in the murder of our son," his father, Abdulbaki Todashev told the Boston Globe . "He was killed in cold blood."
FBI agents takes out evidence from an apartment where Todashev was killed.
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On Sept. 11, 2011, Brendan Mess, 25, Raphael Teken, 37, and Eric Weissman, 31, were found inside a home in Waltham, Massachusetts, with their throats cut and their bodies covered with marijuana. Initially, no suspects were arrested.
After the April 2013 bombings at the Boston Marathon, investigators announced that they had new information that implicated alleged bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev in the 2011 triple-homicide.
According to the Todashev family's claim, in the days after the marathon, FBI agents began to question Todashev repeatedly about the bombing. Todashev was a close friend of Tsarnaev and trained with him a Boston mixed-martial arts gym.
On May 21, 2013, Ibragim Todashev was questioned for five hours by at least six agents inside his Orlando apartment about the Waltham murders.
Toward the end of these discussions, Todashev indicated that he would prepare a written statement implicating himself and Tsarnaev in the killings. According to one of the officers, while the statement was being prepared, Todashev's demeanor began to change.
According to police, Todashev became enraged and threw a coffee table at the agents. Todashev then ran into his kitchen and returned wielding a long pole like a javelin, according to a Massachusetts State Police officer also present. McFarlane then shot Todashev seven times.
Following his death, Todashev's father held a news conference in Moscow, Russia, accusing the FBI of murdering his son while he was "unarmed" and calling the agents involved "bandits."
In March 2014, McFarlane and the other FBI agents were cleared of any wrongdoing in the shooting death of Todashev.
The family's wrongful death claim says that McFarlane's history in law enforcement should have prevented the the FBI from hiring him in the first place.
According to the claim, prior to joining the bureau, McFarlane was an officer at the Oakland Police Department where he was the subject of two police-brutality lawsuits and four internal-affairs investigations.
The claim also cites a 2003 case in California during which McFarlane falsified police reports.
The claim also says that in 2004, after McFarlane retired from the Oakland police, claiming disability, he continued to receive disability payments after joining the FBI in 2008. The Boston Globe reported that McFarlane's disability pension earned him $52,000/year.
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