"Malcolm Shabazz, grandson of Malcolm X, killed"

Posted: Thursday, May 9, 2013 4:59 pm | Updated: 6:40 pm, Thu May 9, 2013.

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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.


https://twitter.com/TerrieWilliams/status/332604189203124225

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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.

http://www.amsterdamnews.com/news/national/malcolm-shabazz-grandson-of-malcolm-x-killed-in-tijuana/article_5f2334f2-b8eb-11e2-93b2-0019bb2963f4.html

The grandson of civil rights leader Malcolm X was killed in Mexico, according to a report from the Amsterdam News.

The publication said the U.S. Embassy confirmed that Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson, died early on Thursday morning.

Details about his death are still sketchy, but the News says there have been unconfirmed reports he was robbed. He was either shot or thrown off a building, it added.

"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," Shabazz family friend Terrie M. Williams tweeted.

He is survived by his two daughters, his mother, and aunts.

In February, Shabazz was arrested by the FBI while he was trying to travel to Iran to “attend a conference on Hollywoodism,” reported state-run Press TV.

In 1997, when he was 12, Shabazz set a fire in his grandmother’s house in New York City. The blaze left Dr. Betty Shabazz, the wife of Malcom X, seriously injured, according to the New York Times. She later died of injuries sustained in the fire.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/48544-malcolm-x-grandson-report-says-he-died-in-mexico/