Rapper, Tupac Shakur's step father, Mutulu Shakur made the FBI's most
wanted list in 1986. Hee was eventually captured, convicted and
sentenced to 60 years in prison for leading a revolutionary group
responsible for a trail of bloodshed, including the slayings of an armed
guard and two New York police officers.
Shakur was also charged with
aiding fellow revolutionary Joanne Chesimard (Assata Shakur) escape from
a New Jersey prison, where she eventually fled to Cuba. But after
serving half his prison sentence, Mutulu Shakur might soon be a free
man.
The 65-year-old, stepfather to the late rapper Tupac Shakur, is eligible
for mandatory parole after serving 30 years of the 60-year sentence he
was given in 1988 for masterminding a string of deadly armed robberies
in New York and Connecticut committed by a militant political group
known as "The Family." His parole hearing is to take place this week at the federal
penitentiary in Victorville, California, where he is serving his
sentence, according to U.S. Justice Department spokesman Peter Carr.
Michael Paige, who is the son of one of the slain armed guards isn't happy about the upcoming parole hearing.
He said:
"That's the going rate? Thirty years for at least three lives that were
taken?" he said. "I was 16 years when he was killed by these animals.
Not a day goes by that I don't think about my father."
Following Mutulu Shakur's
parole hearing, a hearing officer will make a recommendation to the
U.S. Parole Commission on whether or not he should be released. The
federal commission will make the final decision on whether to grant
parole.
Although federal parole was
abolished in 1987, it is still granted for inmates convicted before
then. And under the rules in place at the time of his conviction, parole
is mandatory for Shakur unless a commission finds he is likely to
reoffend or has frequently violated prison rules.
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