Malcolm X's grandson reported dead in Mexico "I'm confirming, per US Embassy, on behalf of the family, the tragic death of Malcolm Shabazz, grandson of Malcolm X," said Terrie Williams. Mr Shabazz, who described himself on Twitter as the "grandson, name-sake and first male heir of the greatest revolutionary leader of the 20th century," is best known for the killing of his grandmother, Malcolm X's widow. Mr Shabazz was jailed for four years as minor, the first of a string of convictions he would wrack up. He was later jailed again for robbery and arrested for punching out the window of a donut shop. He claimed to have been arrested in February 2013 while en route to Iran, although that account has not been confirmed. Mr Shabazz has at least one daughter, Mashallah, and claims on his website to be in the process of writing two books. His mother, Qubilah, was the daughter of Malcolm X and as a four-year-old witnessed him murdered in 1965 by gunmen from the Nation of Islam. She later pleaded guilty to plotting to assassinate Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam.