Ibragim Todashev's father writes open letter to President Obama

THE father of a man shot to death by authorities in Florida while being questioned during the Boston Marathon bombing investigation has written President Barack Obama asking for help finding out what happened.

Abdulbaki Todashev says in his letter that son Ibragim Todashev, 27, knew dead marathon suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev through boxing but had no connection to the bombing or any other crime. He says his son voluntarily went to an FBI office in Orlando to speak with FBI agents four times before they showed up at his apartment May 22.

Attorney Barry Cohen said Monday the elder Todashev fears a cover-up and is writing to Obama one father to another to make sure that doesn't happen. He is asking Obama to ensure authorities do not interfere with the investigation.

A local prosecutor is investigating the death and an FBI spokeswoman won't comment. Findings are expected to be made public in 2014.

Boston Magazine is reporting the open letter along with graphic images of Todashev's body and his bloody apartment also released by his father.

"I am not asking you to share my pain but I am asking you, as the head of the great country - the guarantor of democracy in the modern world, to help the law and justice prevail," Abdulbaki Todashev writes to President Obama.

He said his son was a loving son who came to America in 2008 to practice English and met Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev at the gym when he lived in Massachusetts.

Todashev tells the magazine the FBI "deliberately" killed his son so "he can never speak and never take part in court hearings" and claims the FBI pressured his son's friends also to prevent them speaking the truth.

Ibragim Todashev died in May after FBI agents questioning him about his friendship with Tsarnaev allege he lunged at an agent with a knife.

Images released by Todashev's father can be seen at the Bostonmagazine.com. Warning: Some of the photos are graphic and contain Mr Todashev's dead body.

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