FBI blocks release of autopsy on Boston suspects' pal [View all]
Source: USA Today
Michael Winter, USA TODAY 5:23 p.m. EDT July 16, 2013
Feds still investigating agent's fatal shooting of Ibragim Todashev during questioning in Florida
The FBI has barred the Orlando medical examiner from releasing the autopsy report on a friend of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects who was shot dead by an agent during questioning in May.
Although the autopsy on Ibragim Todashev was completed July 8 and "ready for release," the FBI "has informed this office that the case is still under active investigation and thus not to release the document," Tony Miranda, forensic records coordinator for Orange and Osceola counties, wrote in a statement Tuesday. The statement cites a Florida statute that bars the release of autopsy reports during criminal investigations.
The ME's office said it would contact the FBI every month for authority to release the report.
An FBI agent killed 27-year-old Todashev in his Orlando apartment during questioning related to the bombings and an unsolved triple murder in Waltham, Mass., two years ago. The agency and the Justice Department are conducting an internal investigation.
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