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...killing. Mrs. Shabazz went on to become a university administrator and spokeswoman for civil rights, and raised the couple's six daughters. In 1994, Mrs. Shabazz reopened the old wounds by charging publicly that Louis Farrakhan had played a role in her husband's death. After her daughter Qubilah faced charges in 1995 for hiring a hit man to kill Farrakhan, her mother apparently decided there had been enough rancor. At Harlem's Apollo Theater, she reconciled with Farrakhan, shaking his hand on stage at a fund-raiser for her daughter's defense. It was Qubilah's son, named...
...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...
That may have made it all the more painful for him when his mother's new marriage began dissolving almost immediately. A few weeks after the 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...
...from school for days at a time. His grades were dropping. He transferred to a public school but lasted just a few days. In April, after his mother called police again to calm another of their fights, Malcolm was sent back to New York. People who know them say Qubilah seemed relieved but that Malcolm was homesick for Texas and his friends there. A young friend of his in New York told reporters that Malcolm recently asked him whether, if he made enough trouble, he might be sent back west. Police believe he set the fire, then fled. One officer...
Mother and son were both in family court last week, where Qubilah often reached over to wipe away Malcolm's tears. Prosecutors say they will press charges "to the fullest." Meanwhile, Betty Shabazz rests precariously in the hospital, where she underwent three painful operations last week to replace her burned flesh with temporary grafts of artificial skin. For much of her life, one of her personal mottoes has been "Find the good and then celebrate it." This time, the good may be too hard to find...