Malcolm Xs grandson Malcolm Shabazz murdered in Mexico City

[malaise]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/14/world/americas/2-are-arrested-in-killing-of-malcolm-xs-grandson.html?_r=0
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MEXICO CITY — The police here arrested two men on murder and robbery charges on Monday in the beating death last week of Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of Malcolm X, though many questions about the case remained unresolved.

The men taken into custody, David Hernández Cruz and Manuel Alejandro Pérez de Jesús, worked as waiters at the Palace Club, a downtown bar where Mr. Shabazz, 28, was beaten, in what the city prosecutor called a dispute over an excessive bill.

Two other bar employees who the authorities said participated in the beating, which left Mr. Shabazz with fatal skull, jaw and rib fractures, were being sought.

The body of Mr. Shabazz, who for years had wrestled with living in the shadow of his grandfather’s fame, was still at a city morgue on Monday while American consular officials worked to have it returned to the United States. A family spokeswoman said they would have no comment, and no funeral plans have been announced.

Mr. Shabazz arrived in Mexico City from Tijuana, the prosecutor, Rodolfo Fernando Rios Garza, said at a news conference. He went to the bar on Thursday with a man whom friends identified as Miguel Suárez, a Mexican labor activist whom Mr. Shabazz had befriended in the United States and who had been recently deported.
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[Jazzgirl]

1. Isn't this the same grandson that killed his grandmother

several years ago? I think he had many issues. I wonder why he was in Mexico.

On edit: Yep, he set her on fire.

"That Malcolm Shabazz was known at all to the public is intimately tied to yet more tragedy. When he was twelve, he set the fire that resulted in the death of his grandmother, Malcolm’s widow, Dr. Betty Shabazz. He ricocheted through an adolescence dotted with infractions and arrests, a troubled young man both freighted and propelled by the legacy of his slain namesake."

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/05/death-of-malcolm-x-grandson.html

[malaise]

2. Too sad

all around