The grandson of slain civil rights leader Malcolm X was reported Thursday to have died in Mexico.
The death of Malcolm Shabazz, 29, was reported online by the Amsterdam News, which cited an Internet post by a family friend. The circumstances, however, were not immediately clear.
Officials at the State Department told the Daily News a United States citizen had died in Mexico City, but they would not provide further information.
“We have been in contact with family members and at their request we have no further comment at this time,” an official said.
Juan Ruiz, a member of the California-based activist organization Rumec, told the site he had been in contact with Rumec leader Miguel Suarez. Shabazz, Ruiz said, had gone to Mexico to meet Suarez. Ruiz also said Shabazz was beaten to death during a robbery.
Shabazz, the son of Malcolm X’s second daughter, Qubilah Shabazz, first ran afoul of the law at an early age.
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| Shabazz arrested for arson in 1999 |
At 12, he pleaded guilty to arson for setting a fire in Yonkers that killed his grandmother, Betty Shabazz, the widow of Malcolm X. Five years later, when he was 17, Shabazz was sentenced to three years in state prison for his role in a a street robbery in Middletown, N.Y.
What a life!
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