A man who had allegedly plotted an attack on law enforcement officers and was under surveillance by the Joint Terrorism Task Force was shot and killed Tuesday morning during a confrontation with a Boston police officer and an FBI agent.
The task force had acted quickly on intelligence received that the man had been planning to attack law enforcement officers.
Boston Police Commissioner William Evans said :
We believed he was a threat. He was someone we were watching for quite a time. The level of alarm brought us to question him today
The officer and the agent confronted the man in the parking lot of a CVS pharmacy on Washington Street in the city’s Roslindale neighborhood at 7 a.m.
The man killed was identified as Usaama Rahim by Boston police.
Rahim, 26, who lived in an apartment near the pharmacy, was shot when he “pulled out a military-style knife,” police said.
“The officers asked him several times to put that knife down. They gave him several commands. The officers retreated, saying ‘Drop your weapon, drop your weapon.’ He came within their proximity (so) the officers used deadly force,” Evans said, adding that video surveillance confirmed the officers’ account.
