A pal of one of the Boston Marathon bombers threatened an FBI agent and a Massachusetts state cop with a pole, and was shot dead by the agent just moments after admitting his involvement in a triple murder in Massachusetts, a Florida prosecutor said Tuesday.
State Attorney Jeff Ashton said in a report the agent was justified in shooting Ibragim Todashev last May.
The pair were questioning Todashev about the slayings in Waltham, Mass., and he was about to write a statement when he suddenly became agitated, the report said.
Todashev, a mixed martial arts fighter, threw a coffee table in the air, knocking down the FBI agent and causing a bloody gash on the agent’s head.
The nutcase then ran past the officers, into the kitchen and returned with a pole that he pointed at the Massachusetts cop, the report said.
The FBI agent fired three or four shots at Todashev as he advanced on the trooper.
Todashev dropped to his knees – but then lunged at the officer, and the FBI agent fired three or four more shots, the report said.
“The one common thread among all was the observation that he was, at his core, a fearless fighter,” Ashton said. “Perhaps on this occasion, he simply reverted to that basic aspect of his personality and chose to go down fighting.”
In the Waltham case, three men were found in an apartment with their necks slit and their bodies reportedly covered with marijuana.
One of the victims was a boxer and friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the perps in last year’s Boston Marathon bombing.
Tsarnaev and Todashev were friends from their days when Todashev lived in Boston.
Tsarnaev was killed in a gunfight with cops after the bombing, which killed three people and wounded 264 others.
His brother, Dzhokhar, was later captured and is awaiting trial in federal court in Boston.