Following the Boston Marathon
Bombing, FBI agents ended up investigating the possibility that one
of the alleged bombers, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, now deceased, may have
also been involved in a triple homicide in 2011 possibly connected
to the drug trade. Their investigation put them in connection with
a friend of Tsarnaev’s named Ibragim Todashev, also apparently a
suspect in this triple homicide.
But we may never know the truth, as FBI agents shot him to death
during an interview in May 2013 and have been
concealing the details of what happened on that fateful day.
Now in a detailed long piece in Boston Magazine, a
journalist who knew one of the victims of the triple homicide
attempts to put together the chain of events from the trio’s
killing to the FBI’s post-bombing efforts, which appear to involve
forcing anybody who knew Todashev out of the country.
A few useful nuggets from Susan Zalkind’s
piece:
- Of the three victims of an extremely gory homicide from 2011,
at least two were drug dealers. Police naturally assumed their
careers were involved and interrogated friends and family. Zalkind
notes: “Then there were leads that the detectives seemed to ignore.
They never visited the Wai Kru gym in Allston, where Brendan [Mess,
one of the men killed] practiced mixed martial arts several times a
week, according to gym owner John Allan. They never spoke to his
training partner and best friend, Golden Gloves champion Tamerlan
Tsarnaev, even though several friends gave the police his name in a
list of Brendan’s closest contacts.” - The police at that time didn’t seem to feel much pressure to
solve the case. Ten days after their bodies were found, the mother
of one of the victim’s was told the detectives weren’t actively
pursuing leads anymore and were waiting for somebody down the line
to offer up potential information to get a plea bargain for
something else. - Thus Zalkind suggests, “If Waltham police had figured out who
hacked three men to death on September 11, 2011, there’s a good
chance we would not be talking about the Boston Marathon bombings.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Ibragim Todashev might be alive and in jail.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev might be just another mop-headed, no-name stoner
at UMass Dartmouth. There would be no One Fund. Krystle Campbell,
Lu Lingzi, and Martin Richard would still be alive. Sean Collier
would have graduated from the MIT police department to the
Somerville Police Department by now. And for the friends and family
of the three men who died in Waltham, perhaps their grief would not
still be paired with such haunting questions.”
Read Zalkind’s full piece
here, and take note of the FBI’s post-bombing behavior.
Ibraham’s roommate/girlfriend was deported, and she claims it was
because she spoke to Boston Magazine. Furthermore, when
Ibraham was still alive and FBI was tracking him, they apparently
watched as he got into a violent fight in a parking lot and didn’t
do a thing.
While we still don’t know for sure why the drug dealers were
killed, it’s always worth a reminder that a certain amount of
violence in the drug trade is a direct result of its black market
status. Whatever disagreement may have led to this violence, if it
involved drugs, the men couldn’t go to the law for help. And even
after they got murdered, the police didn’t seem to care enough to
make solving the case a top priority.
Who cares what happens to a couple of drug dealers, right?
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