By Hayley Peterson PUBLISHED: 16:20 EST, 22 May 2013 | UPDATED: 16:57 EST, 22 May 2013 Deceased: Ibragim Todashev was fatally shot by an FBI agent. Initial reports said he had a knife but that was not true A friend of Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev implicated himself and Tsarnaev in a 2011 triple slaying just before he was killed by an FBI agent early Wednesday, NBC and CBS News are reporting. Authorities were pressuring Chechan immigrant Ibragim Todashev, 27, to make a full confession to the murders when he suddenly turned violent, according to CBS. An FBI agent responded by firing his weapon and killing Todashev.
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Ibragim Todashev, 27, reportedly turned violent during an FBI interview
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He had allegedly confessed to the FBI that he and Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev had played a role in a triple slaying in the Boston area in 2011
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Initially, officers claimed that Todashev lunged at the agent with a knife, but they later backtracked and said he may not have had a knife
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Todashev, from Chechnya, was shot dead by the agent just after midnight Wednesday
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Todashev had met Tsarnaev while he was living in Boston and last spoke him about a week before the bombing
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