Mutulu Shakur

Mutulu Shakur (born August 8, 1950, in Baltimore, Maryland as Jeral Wayne Williams and also known as Dr. Mutulu Shakur) was a proponent of the Republic of New Afrika and a close friend of Geronimo Pratt. Shakur is best known for planning the infamous $1.6 million robbery of a Brinks armored truck in New York in which a guard and two police officers were killed. One of his accomplices in the holdup was Kathy Boudin, a member of the Weather Undergr... more

Mutulu Shakur (born August 8, 1950, in Baltimore, Maryland as Jeral Wayne Williams and also known as Dr. Mutulu Shakur) was a proponent of the Republic of New Afrika and a close friend of Geronimo Pratt. Shakur is best known for planning the infamous $1.6 million robbery of a Brinks armored truck in New York in which a guard and two police officers were killed. One of his accomplices in the holdup was Kathy Boudin, a member of the Weather Underground and a fugitive on the FBI's Most Wanted List for 11 years. Boudin was arrested at the scene of the crime, but Shakur escaped. Shakur had been a leader of an offshoot of the Black Liberation Army. He is currently incarcerated in the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons "Administrative Maximum" (ADX) Facility in Florence, Colorado. His projected release date is February 10, 2016. On October 20, 1981, after six previous unsuccessful attempts to rob a Brinks truck, Shakur and five or six other men succeeded in robbing the Brinks truck, killing one... less