Mutulu Shakur

Mutulu Shakur
FBI photograph (1982 or earlier)
Born	Jeral Wayne Williams (1950-08-08)August 8, 1950 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Died	July 7, 2023(2023-07-07) (aged 72) Southern California, U.S.
Occupation	Acupuncturist
Criminal status	Deceased
Spouses	Afeni Shakur ​ ​ (m. 1975; div. 1982)​ Makini Hearn ​ ​ (m. 1982; div. 2010)​
Children	6, including Mopreme and Tupac (stepson)
Conviction(s)	Racketeering (18 U.S.C. § 1962) Conspiracy to commit racketeering (18 U.S.C. § 1962) Killing during the commission of a bank robbery (18 U.S.C. § 2113) (2 counts) Armed bank robbery (18 U.S.C. § 2113) (2 counts) Bank robbery (18 U.S.C. § 2113) (2 counts)
Criminal penalty	60 years' imprisonment
FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive
Status
Added	July 23, 1982
Caught	February 12, 1986
Number	380
Captured

Mutulu Shakur (born Jeral Wayne Williams; August 8, 1950 – July 7, 2023) was an African American activist, and a member of the Black Liberation Army who was sentenced to sixty years in prison for his involvement in a 1981 robbery of a Brinks armored truck in which a guard and two police officers were murdered.

Shakur was politically active as a teen with the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) and later the black separatist movement the Republic of New Afrika. He was the stepfather of rapper Tupac Shakur.

Shakur was paroled after serving nearly 37 years of imprisonment, and died about eight months later.^[1]