Mutulu Shakur | |
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Born | Jeral Wayne Williams August 8, 1950 |
Died | July 7, 2023 Southern California, U.S. | (aged 72)
Occupation | Acupuncturist |
Criminal status | Deceased |
Spouses |
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Children | 6, including Mopreme and Tupac (stepson) |
Conviction(s) |
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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 a New African 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]