JUSTICE

Two Arrested for Murder of Malcolm X’s Grandson

Waiters at the bar where he was beaten.

Mexican authorities on Monday arrested and charged two men with the murder and robbery of Malcolm X’s grandson Malcolm Shabazz, who died after a bar fight in Mexico City. David Hernández Cruz and Manuel Alejandro Pérez de Jesús are both waiters at the Palace Club, a bar in downtown Mexico City where Shabazz ended up with fatal skull, jaw, and rib fractures. Authorities are also seeking two other bar employees. Shabazz reportedly went to the bar with Miguel Suárez, a friend, a fight broke out over the tab, and the two men were separated. What happened next is still unclear, prosecutors said. Shabazz’s body is still in a morgue in Mexico City as the American Consulate works to have him returned to the U.S.