Malcolm Shabazz, grandson of Malcolm X, killed in Tia Juana

[CatWoman]

Source: NY Amsterdam News


The Amsterdam News has learned, and the U.S. Embasy has confirmed, that Malcolm Shabazz - son of Malcolm X, was killed on Thursday, May 9, 2013. He died from injuries sustained after he was thrown off a building as he was being robbed in Tia Juana, early Friday morning.

"I'm confirming, per US Embassy, on bhalf 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(@TerrieWilliams) on twitter.

Early reports said he was shot and information is still coming in.

Malcolm Shabazz is survived by his three year old daughter, Ilyasah, his mother, Qubilah, and his closest aunt Ilyasah.

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

[LuckyLib]

1. Tijuana, Mexico? Spelling is important here.

Article states he was both son and grandson. Which is it?

[cosmicone]

2. There are many synonyms for Tijuana

La Tía Juana, Tiguana, Tiuana, Teguana, Tiwana, Tijuan and Ticuan.

Some people say it derived from a local native dialect meaning "by the sea" but the spanish descendants believe it was a contraction of "Tia Juana" (sort of like aunt Jane).

The reporter is obviously a Mexican purist to have called it Tia Juana.

[Bluenorthwest]

14. Most of those spellings are from antiquity, Tijuana is an actual city with a name

which the city spells Tijuana. The other spellings are not synonyms for Tijuana.
http://www.tijuana.gob.mx/

[Posteritatis]

20. Many cities, possibly most, have wildly different names in other languages and dialects. (nt)

[KamaAina]

3. Poorly written article all the way around

Malcolm Shabazz was in the process of writing two books, at least one of which was attending John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.

A book was attending John Jay College? "The younger Shabazz was described by students as 'rather bookish'".

The Mexican city across the border from San Diego was once called Tia Juana -- but hasn't been for decades. Perhaps that's a stylistic quirk, like the Chicago Tribune's continued use of "burocracy".

[CatWoman]

6. I don't like that article because of its many flaws

and I'm trying to find a better link.

[CatWoman]

9. they are slowly correcting the errors

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.

[erpowers]

12. Yes

It was a poorly written article.

[AtheistCrusader]

13. It was probably not authored in English.

[KamaAina]

16. The Amsterdam News is published in NYC.

It is the city's most prominent African American publication. The name derives from Amsterdam Avenue, which runs through west Harlem.

[AtheistCrusader]

19. I assumed it was based on a local source.

Like MSNBC will reprint AP stories. Maybe not.

[msanthrope]

22. It probably came from the family themselves. nt

[Renew Deal]

26. Amsterdam News is a small NYC outfit

[RebelOne]

4. It was his grandson.

And it was in Tijuana, Mexico. Did you read the article?

[LuckyLib]

8. Given the first paragraphs shown, no. It was shoddy to begin with.

[msanthrope]

5. So the firestarter is dead? Killed his grandmother, and did juvvy time

for it, graduated to robbery, adult prison, etc.

[eppur_se_muova]

7. Three men in four generations murdered ?

How many families can deal with that ? How many of the monied class will ever have to deal with even one family member murdered ?

[msanthrope]

11. Interestingly, the Shabazz family had resources. But lots of division.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/09/nyregion/09shabazz.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

The publishing deals could possibly make them more.

[raccoon]

30. The Kennedys. But that is pretty unusual. nt

[msanthrope]

10. Oh, the CT will abound on this one--he was detained by the FBI a few months ago on his

way to Iran.

[Bluenorthwest]

15. Not according to the Shabazz family, they say he was arrested, no FBI and no Iranian

connection as reported only by PresTV. He had been arrested many times for many reasons including the arson that killed his grandmother Betty Shabazz.

[msanthrope]

21. Remembering how his family handled his killing of his grandmother, I am

inclined to take a press account over them---but who knows. I suspect any American citizen taking a flight to Iran might have a convo or two with a government agency.

[arely staircase]

17. ¿Quién es Tia Juana? eom

[LeftInTX]

18. ROFL - What was he doing "in" his aunt?

I know, I know....there's a translation issue, but I couldn't help but laugh. I literally thought it was his Tia Juana.

It took me a minute to figure out Tijuana.

[Octafish]

23. Tragedy for infinite reasons...

...For us who remain, a reminder of All that is lost when someone is taken from us through violence.

[Beacool]

24. According to The Huff he died in Mexico City, not Tijuana.

“He was murdered. He was in Mexico City and I believe they attempted to rob him and he didn't allow it, so they beat him to death and he died on his way to the hospital,” Juan Ruiz, a member of the California-based labor organization Rumec, told TPM. “This is all I can confirm, everything else is under investigation for the meantime.”

Shabazz is the son of Qubilah Shabazz, who was the second daughter of Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz. In his youth, he set a fire that caused the death of his grandmother. For that crime, he pleaded guilty to manslaughter, was found guilty of arson, and was sentenced to 18 months in a juvenile detention facility.

Shabazz continued to have trouble with the law throughout his life, The New York Times reported. He plead guilty to attempted robbery in 2002 and was sentenced to three and a half years in prison. Just months after his release in 2006, he was arrested again, this time for punching a hole in a store window.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/09/malcolm-shabazz-dead_n_3249313.html

It seems that trouble followed him everywhere he went. Rest in peace.

[CatWoman]

25. thanks for the additional link and info, Bea

tragic all the way around.......

[Beacool]

28. You're welcome.

[bigdarryl]

27. Carma is a bitch he's getting back what he did to his grand mom

[Recursion]

29. NY Mag says killed over a bar tab

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/05/malcolm-xs-grandson-killed-over-bar-tab-dispute.html

Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of Malcolm X, was killed Thursday morning in Mexico City. The details of what happened remain somewhat unclear, but Miguel Suarez — a friend and leader of California activist group Rumec, who Shabazz had traveled to Mexico to visit — said that the 28-year-old was beaten up over some kind of dispute involving a bar tab:

"We were dancing with the girls and drinking," Suarez said. Then the owner of the bar wanted them to pay a $1,200 bar tab for music, drinks and the women's companionship. Suarez said a man with a gun took him to a separate room and he heard a violent commotion in the hall. He said he escaped and came back minutes later in a cab to look for Shabazz, whom he found on the ground outside the bar.

Shabazz's early life was troubled, to say the least. In 1995, his mother and X's second-oldest daughter, Qubilah Shabazz, was indicted on charges of plotting to murder Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who some believe was involved in her father's 1965 assassination. The younger Shabazz was sent to live with his grandmother, Betty Shabazz. At 12, he set her Yonkers apartment on fire, and she later died of injuries sustained during the blaze. He spent four years in juvenile detention, and was re-arrested and imprisoned again for robbery after he got out.

More recently, he had enrolled in New York's John Jay School of Criminal Justice and was at work on two books. (He also traveled to Syria and attempted to go to Iran; a statement attributed to him by Iran's state-run news agency said that he had been "harassed" by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies as a result.) A family friend and the head of Michigan's Council on American-Islamic Relations, Imam Dawud Walid, said that he'd spoken with Shabazz about his "struggles that he had and some of the mistakes that he made in the past" and his efforts to turn his life around. "It's a lot for a young man to handle — also, a lot to live up to," said Walid. "There are a lot of people who expected him to be the reflection of his grandfather, and that's a heavy burden to bear."