Man ‘radicalized by ISIS-inspired social media messages’ shot and killed by joint terrorism task force after allegedly pulling a ‘military-style’ knife on them in Boston

• Usaama Rahim was shot and killed on Tuesday outside a CVS pharmacy in Boston at about 7 a.m.
• Rahim was approached by two members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force who claim that he branished a ‘military-style’ knife at them 
• He is alleged to have lunged at the police officer and FBI agent with the knife and so they opened fire on him
• His family are contradicting those claims and say he was on the phone to his father when he was shot three times in the back 
• Rahim was being investigated by the task force after becoming radicalized by ISIS-inspired social media messages, report authorities 
• Authorities later raided a home nearby in connection with the case

Usaama Rahim, under surveillance by terrorism investigators in Boston, was shot and killed on Tuesday morning after he allegedly lunged at a cop and an FBI agent with a knife outside a CVS pharmacy

By DAVID MCCORMACK FOR DAILYMAIL.COM, June 2, 2015:

The man refused orders by the members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force to drop his military-style knife before the officer and agent both opened fire,’ said police Commissioner William Evans.

‘The officers asked him several times to put the knife down,’ said Evans, who did not disclose why the man was under surveillance.

Confirmation of the dead man’s name came from the Council of American-Islamic Relations.

Spokesperson Ibrahim Hooper said his organization had spoken to Rahim’s older brother, Imam Ibrahim Rahim, who had confirmed the death.

‘He did confirm that it was his brother that was shot,’ Hooper told The Boston Globe. ‘He spoke in a very calm, matter of fact way.’

The elder Rahim wrote in a Facebook post that his brother was shot three times in the back while waiting at a bus stop to go to work. Officials said he was shot in the chest.

‘I can’t breathe': Usaama Rahim’s elder brother Ibrahim wrote in a Facebook post that his brother was waiting at a bus stop to go to work on Tuesday morning when he was confronted

According to the family, Rahim was on the phone with his father who heard the shots and his last words were ‘I can’t breathe.’

‘We are deeply grieved by the loss of my younger brother,’ wrote Ibrahim in another post. He is an imam at a mosque in the San Francisco area.

Officials said the officer and agent had been investigating whether the man, in his early 20s, had become radicalized by ISIS-inspired social media messages, reports NBC News.

‘The officers asked him several times to put the knife down,’ police Commissioner William Evans said.

At that point, the police officer and the FBI agent both fired.

The man fell to the ground and was taken to a hospital, where he died.

Rahim was being investigated by the task force following a tip-off that he had become radicalized by ISIS-inspired social media messages

The officer and agent did ‘what they are trained to do,’ Evans said.

Investigators were examining surveillance video from cameras in the area.

On Tuesday afternoon, authorities raided a home in Everett in connection with the case.

‘It’s all part of a very active Joint Terrorism Task Force investigation,’ said Boston police spokesman Lt. Michael McCarthy. Further details weren’t immediately available.

In recent months, ISIS messages worldwide have called for attacks using whatever weapons are at hand, including guns and knives.

Federal and local sources stressed they did not believe there was a threat to the general public at this time.

The officer and the agent were also evaluated at the hospital for what Evans described as ‘stress,’ though they were not physically injured.