The FBI had interviewed Todashev before about the Marathon bombing because he was a friend who , like Tamerlan Tsarnaev , trained in martial arts , and the two were friends . Ibragim Todashev knew the alleged Boston Marathon bombings mastermind . He was killed in Florida in May 2013 while being questioned about a triple homicide . An FBI agent shot him ; U.S. law enforcement officials say he lunged at the agent . TL;DR A federal judge on Friday rejected an attempt by lawyers for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to block prosecutors from using his confession as evidence against him.
Ibragim Todashev knew the alleged Boston Marathon bombings mastermind . He was killed in Florida in May 2013 while being questioned about a triple homicide . An FBI agent shot him ; U.S. law enforcement officials say he lunged at the agent . TL;DR A federal judge on Friday rejected an attempt by lawyers for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to block prosecutors from using his confession as evidence against him.