It's Back to Being Odd

I thought it was worse than odd that a suspect about to sign a confession for a murder possibly related to the Boston bombers pulled a knife and was shot by the FBI. Now the news is there was no knife. We're back to odd.

Excuse me?

The FBI has confirmed that a friend of slain Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was unarmed and not waving a samurai sword when he was shot and killed last week by an FBI agent in Orlando, Fla., as earlier reports had indicated.

The FBI says Ibragim Todashev, 27, a Chechen immigrant and aspiring martial arts fighter, was about to sign a confession to a 2011 triple murder when he turned a table on an FBI agent, putting the agent in jeopardy. The agent then fired as many as 7 shots, hitting Mr. Todashev at least once in the head.

I totally missed the samurai sword version. I was still in the knife stage. Now, a week later, there was no knife at all?

I assume the next version involves Todashev seeing some lousy Internet video defaming Chechnya, which sent him into an unexpected rage.

I'm inclined to believe this is confusion rather than conspiracy. But the whole situation of not having a suspected terrorist under more thorough control is so sloppy that it is shocking.

UPDATE: More on the changing stories. Tip to Instapundit.