Mutulu Shakur is an American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army, 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 one of several Black Liberation Army members to carry out the 1981 robbery of an armored car. They stole $1.6 million in cash from a Brink’s armored car at the Nanuet Mall, in Nanuet, New York, killing a Brink’s guard
, Peter Paige, seriously wounding another Brinks guard, Joseph Trombino, and subsequently killing two Nyack police officers, Edward O’Grady and Waverly Brown (the first black member of the Nyack, New York, police department)
Is Mutulu Shakur still alive?
Yes, the convicted felon is alive though he reportedly has six months to live. Due to his long prison stay, he was diagnosed with stage three myeloma in 2019, a terminal bone marrow cancer. He also has hypertension, type 2 diabetes, Glaucoma, and the aftereffects of a 2013 stroke keeping him in a wheelchair.
Is Mutulu Shakur dead?
No, Mutulu Shakur is not dead