Overview

• FBI Director Kash Patel condemned public tributes on X, calling Shakur a terrorist and saying mourning her disrespects officers killed in the line of duty.
• Left-leaning groups including the Democratic Socialists of America and the Chicago Teachers Union posted praise for Shakur, drawing a rebuke from New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy.
• Cuba’s foreign ministry and Shakur’s daughter confirmed she died in Havana on September 25 from health conditions related to advanced age.
• Shakur was convicted in 1977 in the killing of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster, escaped prison in 1979, received asylum in Cuba in 1984, and later became the first woman on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list.
• Accounts of the 1973 Turnpike shootout remain disputed, a divide that endures alongside her cultural profile as Tupac Shakur’s godmother and a figure referenced across hip-hop.