|
Ibragim Todashev (''Ибрагим Тодашев'') (September 22, 1985 – May 22, 2013) was a Chechen American former mixed martial artist and a possible friend of suspected Boston Marathon bomber and former amateur boxer, Tamerlan Tsarnaev. At his apartment in Orlando, Florida, he was shot dead by FBI agent Aaron McFarlane during a police interview on May 22, 2013. He had allegedly attacked the agent, with a pipe or stick, while writing a statement about the 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 Tamerlan Tsarnaev in the Waltham murders before he was killed. == Life == 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 (or Abdul-Baki) Todashev and his two wives.〔 During the 1990s, his family fled war-torn Chechnya to Russia's Saratov Oblast. They resided there until the late 2000s, before moving back to Grozny, where his father became a high-ranking pro-Moscow official in the city administration in 2008.〔〔 Todashev moved to the U.S. 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. He then applied for and was granted asylum in 2008 and permanent residence in March 2013.〔〔 According to the Center for Immigration Studies, Todashev was granted asylum for no valid reason as he was personally in no danger of repression or ethnic or religious persecution in Chechnya and might have "lied throughout his entire interaction with State Department and Homeland Security authorities;" his own father said his son had no reason to fear "oppression" back home as "he was too young to fight in the war (Chechnya ), and he has nothing to fear here now" from the authorities. He said: "Out of fear of the lawlessness in Chechnya, I sent him to the U.S. because it seemed like the safest country at the time."〔 In the United States, Todashev married an Armenian American, Reni Manukyan, who said she met her late husband in 2010 through a mutual friend in Boston; Manukyan separated from Todashev in November 2012, but they had kept in regular contact with each other, and she was still supporting him with money. Todashev was an amateur boxer before turning to mixed martial arts (MMA) in the United States, but he was to quit his professional MMA career due to a serious knee injury. The father said that after that, his son had held various jobs in the Boston area before eventually moving to Florida. The father said in an interview for Russia Today that his son was a "very calm" person who would never hurt anyone.〔 Todashev's former MMA training partner however described him as a gifted athlete but also a "hothead".〔 In 2010, the Boston Police Department detained Todashev for a violent road rage incident in Downtown Crossing; the police report states that the officers "witnessed several people struggling to restrain a white male, later determined to be the subject, Ibragim Todashev. Officers heard Todashev yell, 'You say something about my mother, I will kill you!' Officers struggled to physically restrain and handcuff Todashev." On May 4, 2013, shortly before his death, he was also briefly arrested by the Orange County Sheriff's Office in Orange County, Florida, after he got into a fight with two strangers during a dispute over parking space at an outlet mall, knocking one of them unconscious and then leaving the scene (the man, who was hospitalized with serious head injuries but did not press charges,〔 later said he was shocked "how accurate and quick his punches were" and "thought he was wearing brass knuckles, but it was just his fist"). The responding sheriff's deputy chased down Todashev's car, ordered him out at gunpoint and arrested him; the affidavit states that "Todashev said he was only fighting to protect his knee because he had surgery in March." At the time of the shooting that killed him, Todashev was free on $3,500 bail for the Orange County incident, facing charges of aggravated battery.〔〔 Todashev's Russian girlfriend and housemate, Tatiana Gruzdeva, was arrested on immigration charges by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on May 16, a few days before Todashev's death, after she refused to agree to report to the FBI on Todashev. While she had been ordered to return to Russia by an immigration judge, federal immigration officials granted Gruzdeva permission to stay in the United States for another year and released her from detention in August.〔 After speaking to reporter Susan Zalkind about Todashev's death and relationship with the FBI, Gruzdeva was arrested and deported to Russia in October 2013.〔 Todashev's friend who was also a housemate, Ashurmamad Miraliev, briefly charged in an unrelated case, was ordered to leave the country voluntarily and left soon afterwards.〔http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2013-09-21/news/os-todashev-friend-arrested-florida-20130920_1_ibragim-todashev-boston-based-fbi-agent-boston-marathon〕〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ibragim Todashev」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|