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...fire inside her Yonkers, N.Y., apartment. Police say the blaze was set by her grandson, who had lived with her for most of the past two years and returned in April after a brief, rocky stay with his mother in San Antonio, Texas. Friends and neighbors say Malcolm, 12, wanted to live again with his mother Qubilah, who had been briefly in the news in 1995 when she faced charges for plotting to kill Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan...
...Shabazz children--just before his death, Malcolm X took the name Malik El-Shabazz--it was Qubilah who was marked most deeply by the traumas of her early life. When her father was shot, the four-year-old girl was close by with her three sisters and pregnant mother. A week earlier the family's home in Queens, N.Y., had been fire-bombed. Later Qubilah would say she wished her father had worked in a grocery store. "I was always angry he left me behind," she said. "If he were a simple store clerk, he would still be here...
Though Qubilah attended Princeton University, she dropped out to move to Paris, drifting through small jobs and rooming houses. Her son's father has been described as a Nigerian she met at school. In time she and Malcolm landed in Minneapolis, Minn., where she thought about killing Farrakhan, a man her mother believed had conspired in her father's death. The government's case against Qubilah rested on taped conversations in which she talked about the plan. But the tapes were provided by a dubious witness, Michael Fitzpatrick, a former schoolmate of Qubilah's who was also an FBI informer...
While Qubilah tried to make it in Texas, her son stayed with his grandmother in New York. But in December, Qubilah married Theo Turner, who once served time for burglary. Soon after, Malcolm traveled west to join them. At Redeemer Lutheran School, where he entered eighth grade, teachers say he made friends easily. "He didn't wear a big X on his T shirt," says principal Randy Harrison. "He was just Malcolm." He seemed to like his new stepfather, who would come to watch him play basketball...
...marriage was annulled, Turner was arrested in connection with a complaint filed by Qubilah in which she claimed he had pushed her out of a car during an argument. Soon after, police were called again when Qubilah reported that her son had attacked her. When the officers arrived, Malcolm told them he was angry about her drinking. She insisted that her son was schizophrenic but had not taken his medication in two years. Police took them both to a psychiatric hospital...