Grandson of Malcolm X, Malcolm Shabazz. He was reportedly killed in Tijuana, Mexico on May 9, 2013., a photo by Pan-African News Wire File Photos on Flickr.
Malcolm Shabazz, grandson of Malcolm X, killed
Thu May 9, 2013.
Amsterdam News Staff
The Amsterdam News has learned, and the U.S. Embassy has confirmed, that Malcolm Shabazz - grandson of Malcolm X, was killed in Mexico.
Several reports around the circumstances of his death, stilled unconfirmed, have rummored that he died early Thursday morning, May 9, 2013 from injuries sustained after he was thrown off a building or shot as he was being robbed in Tijuana.
"I'm confirming, per U.S. Embassy, on behalf of family, the tragic death of Malcolm Shabazz, grandson of Malcolm X. Statement frm family 2 come," wrote close friend of the Shabazz family Terrie M. Williams on twitter.
Family members have confirmed his death and that he was in Mexico but have not confirmed the exact location or circumstances of how Malcolm Shabazz died.
Malcolm Shabazz is survived by two daughters, his mother and several aunts.
Malcolm Shabazz pled guilty and was found guilty of manslaughter and arson and was sentenced to 18 months in Juvenile detention. His stay was extended and he was released four years later. Years later he told the Amsterdam News that he had not set the fire.
Malcolm Shabazz was in the process of writing two books, at least one of which was a manuscript, and he was attending John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.
Malcolm Shabazz, grandson of Malcolm X, killed in Mexico
Written by James O’Rourke
The Journal News
lohud.com
Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of late civil rights leader Malcolm X, was killed in Mexico on Thursday, a close family friend said.
Shabazz, 28, is perhaps most widely known for intentionally starting a fire that killed his grandmother Betty Shabazz, 63, Malcolm X’s widow, in Yonkers in 1997.
He died of injuries suffered while being robbed in Tijuana early Thursday morning, according to media reports.
Terrie M. Williams, a Mount Vernon native who now runs The Terrie Williams Talent Agency in New York City, has worked closely with the Shabazz family and confirmed the man’s death.
“I’m confirming, per the U.S. Embassy, on behalf of the family, the tragic death of Malcolm Shabazz, grandson of Malcolm X,” she wrote on her Facebook and Twitter accounts. “Statement from family to come.”
Reached at her agency, Williams told The Journal News she had worked with Shabazz for a number of years.
“I mentored him and he did a lot of work with us in terms of speaking to young people,” Williams said. “He was a very, very powerful brother.”
Officials at the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Consular Affairs did not immediately return a request for comment on the death.
Betty Shabazz was living in Yonkers when her grandson set fire to the apartment in which she was sleeping. She was seriously injured in the blaze, succumbing to those injuries three weeks later, on June 23, 1997.
Malcolm was 12 years old at the time and, after pleading guilty to second-degree arson and second-degree manslaughter, was sentenced to 18 months in an out-of-state juvenile facility.
In 2002, at the age of 17, he was sentenced to three years in a New York state prison after taking part in a violent street robbery in Middletown.
In November 2006, 22-year-old Malcolm Shabazz admitted to smashing the window of a Dunkin’ Donuts in Yonkers the previous August. He pleaded guilty to fourth-degree criminal mischief.
Williams could not say when the Shabazz family would release their statement and was unable to provide further details of the circumstances surrounding the man’s death.
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