Assata Shakur, real name Joanne Chesimard, has been added to the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist list 40 years after she was convicted in the death of a state trooper.
The FBI also announced that they are doubling the reward for her capture to $2 million.
Some of New Jersey’s top lawmen will gather at the FBI’s headquarters in Newark to announce that Chesimard is being added to the FBI terrorist list, a law enforcement official said.
FBI Special Agent in Charge Aaron T. Ford, the new head of the FBI’s Newark Division, also is expected to announce that the reward for Chesimard’s capture is being doubled to $2 million, the official said.
Shakur, who was considered a black militant, has been living in Cuba under the protection of the Castro regime since the mid 1980s. In 1977, she was convicted of killing Trooper Werner Foerster during a gun battle on the New Jersey turnpike.
Three gunmen posing as visitors broke her out of the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Clinton in 1979.
If you remember, the White House came under some fire after inviting Common to visit, because of his lyrics praising Shakur in this song:
SOURCE: NorthJersey
