Editorial: FBI Needs to Explain What Happened in Death of Boston Bomber’s Friend

 By Denver Post Editorial Board

The clouds of conflicting stories surrounding the police killing of a friend of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects need to be cleared, officially and with some dispatch.

While we understand there are ongoing investigations into the shooting of Ibragim Todashev during questioning, authorities should quickly release an explanation — even a brief one — of what led to the May 22 killing of the Chechen man.

In the vacuum, anonymous sources have given different details about the events, and some versions portray the FBI in an unfavorable light.

Authorities were questioning Todashev about a triple homicide in Massachusetts, in which Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev was another suspect, when, well, something happened.

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