Overview

• Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Shakur died on Sept. 25 in Havana due to health problems and advanced age, and her daughter reported the time of death as about 1:15 p.m.
• Shakur was convicted in 1977 in connection with a 1973 New Jersey Turnpike shootout that killed State Trooper Werner Foerster and wounded Trooper James Harper.
• She escaped New Jersey’s Clinton Correctional Facility for Women in November 1979 in a breakout staged by Black Liberation Army members and resurfaced in Cuba, where she was granted asylum in 1984.
• In 2013, the FBI placed her on its Most Wanted Terrorists list as the first woman included, with a combined reward of up to $2 million for information leading to her capture.
• Her case was a persistent point of tension in U.S.–Cuba relations and her life story became a polarizing touchstone that influenced Black liberation activism and parts of hip‑hop culture.