20 Facts About Ibragim Todashev

Ibragim Todashev was a Chechen-born former mixed martial artist, former amateur boxer and friend of Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

Ibragim Todashev was shot dead at his apartment in Orlando, Florida, by FBI agent Aaron McFarlane on May 22,2013, after being interviewed there for about eight hours.

Ibragim Todashev had allegedly attacked the agent, with a pipe or stick, while writing a statement about the April 15,2013, 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 Tsarnaev in the Waltham murders before he was killed.

Ibragim Todashev was born on September 22,1985, in the Chechen-Ingush capital Grozny during the Soviet era, as the eldest of 12 children of Abdulbaki Todashev and his two wives.

Ibragim Todashev moved to the US to study English on a J-1 non-immigrant visa, after four years of study in classes at Saratov State University and Chechen State University, as part of a student exchange program with Russia.

Ibragim Todashev then applied for and was granted asylum in 2008 and permanent residence in March 2013.

Ibragim Todashev's father said his son had no reason to fear "oppression" back home as "he was too young to fight in the war [in Chechnya], and he has nothing to fear here now" from the authorities.

Ibragim Todashev was an amateur boxer before turning to mixed martial arts in the United States, but he quit his professional MMA career due to a serious knee injury.

Ibragim Todashev's father said that after that, his son had held various jobs in the Boston area before eventually moving to Florida.

Ibragim Todashev's father said in an interview for Russia Today that his son was a "very calm" person who would never hurt anyone.

At the time of the shooting that killed him, Ibragim Todashev was free on $3,500 bail for the Orange County incident, facing charges of aggravated battery.

Ibragim Todashev's friend who was a housemate, Ashurmamad Miraliev, briefly charged in an unrelated case, was ordered to leave the country and left soon afterwards.

Ibragim Todashev was questioned by the FBI agent regarding the 2011 Waltham murders and his connections to the Boston bombings suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev; both Ibragim Todashev and Tsarnaev had trained at the Wai Kru MMA Gym and lived close to each other in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The investigators later said that Ibragim Todashev implicated both himself and Tamerlan Tsarnaev in the murders during the questioning soon after midnight.

Reports after the shooting noted that Aaron McFarlane, the agent who killed Ibragim Todashev, had been the subject of two police-brutality lawsuits and four internal-affairs investigations while at the Oakland Police Department, and had claimed his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination at a police corruption trial.

Kadyrov's press office released a statement of him claiming that Ibragim Todashev wanted to go home because of "the harassment of Chechens in America" and criticizing the alleged "double standards" of the White House in regards to murder and terrorism.

Ibragim Todashev claimed not receiving assistance from Kadyrov and the Russian state, but is being supported by his son's estranged widow as well as CAIR and the Florida ACLU.

The blood-stained clothing and some other belongings of Ibragim Todashev that had been taken as evidence were returned to the family in 2022, nine years after he was killed.

Ibragim Todashev was unarmed when he was killed in cold blood by FBI agent Aaron McFarlane.