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ORLANDO, FLA.—An Orlando, Fla., man who was shot and killed by an agent with the FBI early Wednesday morning was friends with the Boston bombings suspects, according to a friend of the victim.

That man, Khusn Taramiv, thinks it was his friend — Ibragim Todashev — who was shot this morning in the 6000 block of Peregrine Avenue in Orlando.

Todashev, 27, was arrested by the Orange County, Fla., Sheriff’s Office on May 4 and charged with aggravated battery with great bodily harm.

Taramiv told several television outlets his friend was being investigated as part of the Boston bombings and knew bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev because both were mixed martial-arts fighters.

In a statement Wednesday, the FBI said the man being questioned was fatally shot when he initiated a violent confrontation, according to the Associated Press.

FBI spokesman Paul Bresson said the FBI agent acted on an imminent threat and shot the interview subject.

The man being interviewed was killed and the FBI agent was transported to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Tsarnaev, 26, one of the suspects in the Boston bombings died in a gun battle with police. He had been on a U.S. government database of potential terrorism suspects and the United States had twice been warned by Russia that he might be an Islamic militant, according to U.S. security officials.

With files from The Associated Press