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FBI agent cleared in interrogation kill
WASHINGTON - The FBI agent who fatally shot a Chechen man during an interrogation about the Boston Marathon bombing suspects in an Orlando, Fla., apartment has been cleared of wrongdoing.
A prosecutor in Florida and an FBI internal review of the May shooting reached the conclusion, according to law enforcement officials.
A review by the Justice Department, which is nearly complete, is expected to find that the agent followed the department’s guidelines on the use of force when he killed the Chechen, Ibragim Todashev, according to the officials.
None of the reports has been released publicly. The prosecutor in Florida, Jeffrey Ashton, has said his findings will be released Tuesday.
The FBI and the Justice Department have been criticized by civil-rights and civil-liberties groups for their investigations of shootings by agents.
The New York Times reported in June that from 1993 to early 2011, FBI agents fatally shot about 70 “subjects” and wounded about 80 others, and in every case the agent’s use of force was determined to be justified.
Arrest made in NYC bus-shooting death
NEW YORK - A murder charge was filed Friday against the 14-year-old gunman who opened fire on a New York City bus in Brooklyn on Thursday evening, fatally shooting a 39-year-old passenger in the head, authorities said.
The attack happened about 6:20 p.m. Police said the suspect was on the bus when the intended target and two friends stepped aboard. There was a flash of recognition from both sides, followed by gunfire, they said.
The gunman fired one shot aboard the bus, said Stephen Davis, the Police Department’s top spokesman; it struck the passenger, who was identified by police as Angel Rojas.
The intended target, his two companions and the suspect all ran off the bus, and five more shots were fired outside, Davis said. None of those bullets struck anyone. It was not clear if the teen will be charged as an adult.
Authorities raid R.I. speaker’s premises
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Law enforcement officials raided the office and home of House Speaker Gordon Fox on Friday as part of an investigation by the U.S. attorney’s office, the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service and state police.
Officials would not say who or what was being investigated, but authorities worked for hours inside the Democratic House speaker’s Statehouse office while state police troopers stood outside.
Authorities entered the office carrying an evidence bag and empty cardboard boxes Friday morning. Fox’s spokesman, Larry Berman, said state police had asked everyone working in the office to leave, but he didn’t know why.
Fox has represented Providence for more than two decades in the state’s part-time General Assembly, and he became the nation’s first openly gay House speaker in 2010. He has a private law practice.
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