Malikah Shabazz
, one of
Malcolm X's
daughters
, has been found dead in her Brooklyn home, according to The New York Post.
Malikah Shabazz
, 56, was discovered by her daughter at her Midwood residence around 4:40 p.m.
Investigators do not suspect violence in the death, although the autopsy will determine
Shabazz's
cause of death
.
"I am deeply saddened by the death of
Malikah Shabazz
," Bernice King, the daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., said in a post on Twitter.
"My heart goes out to her family, the descendants of Dr. Betty Shabazz and
Malcolm X.
Dr. Shabazz was pregnant with
Malikah
and her twin sister,
Malaak
, when brother
Malcolm
was murdered."
Malikah Shabazz
and her twin sister Malaak are the youngest of
Malcolm X's
six daughters
.
She and her daughter,
Bettih Shabazz
, were arrested in January 2017 on charges of animal cruelty in Maryland.
Several injured dogs were found subjected to
"inhumane conditions"
inside a stolen truck the couple was driving.
Malcolm X made
headlines last week after two of the late civilian activist's convicted killers,
Muhammad Aziz
and the late
Khalil Islam
, were cleared of the charges.
Aziz
and
Islam
each spent about two decades in jail for the shooting of
Malcolm X
on February 21, 1965 at the
Audubon Ballroom
in Washington Heights.
Both were released on parole in the 1980s.
The two and a third man,
Mujahid Abdul Halim
, were found guilty of the murder in March 1966 and sentenced to life in prison a month later.
No physical evidence linked
Aziz
or
Islam
to the murder or the crime scene, and both had alibis backed by testimony.
Halim, who admitted to being one of the killers, answered for Aziz and Islam, testifying in the late 1970s that the men
"had nothing to do with it
.
"
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