Malcolm Shabazz, grandson of Malcolm X, killed in Tia Juana
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
(6,819 posts)Article states he was both son and grandson. Which is it?
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)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
(45,319 posts)which the city spells Tijuana. The other spellings are not synonyms for Tijuana.
http://www.tijuana.gob.mx/
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)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
(79,302 posts)and I'm trying to find a better link.
CatWoman
(79,302 posts)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.
It was a poorly written article.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)It is the city's most prominent African American publication. The name derives from Amsterdam Avenue, which runs through west Harlem.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Like MSNBC will reprint AP stories. Maybe not.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Renew Deal
(81,871 posts)RebelOne
(30,947 posts)And it was in Tijuana, Mexico. Did you read the article?
LuckyLib
(6,819 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)for it, graduated to robbery, adult prison, etc.
eppur_se_muova
(36,289 posts)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
(37,549 posts)The publishing deals could possibly make them more.
raccoon
(31,119 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)way to Iran.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)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
(37,549 posts)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
(12,482 posts)LeftInTX
(25,551 posts)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
(55,745 posts)...For us who remain, a reminder of All that is lost when someone is taken from us through violence.
Beacool
(30,251 posts)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
(79,302 posts)tragic all the way around.......
Beacool
(30,251 posts)bigdarryl
(13,190 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)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."