 As a mixed martial arts fighter, Ibragim Todashev had talent — and a temper. The FBI agent who shot Todashev, who practiced mixed martial arts, has not been publicly identified but is from the agency's Boston division, the Orlando Sentinel reported. Todashev was arrested on May 4 and charged with aggravated battery after getting into a fight with another man over a parking space at an Orlando shopping mall, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Office in Orlando. And a former training partner at a gym outside Boston told the Sentinel that Todashev was a gifted athlete but also a "hothead." FBI personnel walk through the complex surrounding the apartment, where Ibragim Todashev was shot and killed by FBI, in Orlando, Florida, May 22, 2013.
– The father of Ibragim Todashev, Tamerlan Tsarnaev's friend killed during FBI questioning this week, says he thinks authorities "tortured my son and that he suffered a painful death," he tells Reuters. Abdulbaki Todashev, who works for the mayor of Grozny, Chechnya's main city, plans to visit the US "and get to the truth." After traveling to the US in 2008, the younger Todashev was supposed to have come home today. "He shouldn't have left," his father says. Ibragim Todashev met the Tsarnaevs during his time in the US, where he went to learn English, his father says. "Chechens have a power in their unity and interest in what happens in their homeland. It unites them. That's the reason my son became an acquaintance of the Tsarnaevs." Recently, FBI agents had been following Ibragim's movements for weeks, says a friend. Meanwhile: Boston locals recall Todashev via the Herald. Says a fellow mixed martial arts fighter: "His only way to resolve a lot of conflicts was violence." FBI agents are in Orlando investigating Todashev's death. An autopsy was set to be finished yesterday, though the results may not emerge for months amid the probe, the Sentinel reports.