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Thomas Hagan

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31: 284:. He said that one of his accomplices distracted Malcolm X's bodyguards by starting an argument about having been pickpocketed. When the bodyguards moved toward the diversion and away from Malcolm X, a man with a shotgun stepped up to him and shot him in the chest. After that, Hagan himself and another of his accomplices shot several rounds at Malcolm X with semi-automatic handguns. 265:, Hagan was shot in the leg by one of Malcolm X's bodyguards while attempting to flee from the building. Hampered by his bullet wound, Hagan was grabbed by several members of the crowd who witnessed the shooting and beat him before police officers arrived and arrested Hagan at the scene. He later confessed to the crime but said that Thomas Johnson (Khalil Islam) and Norman 3X Butler ( 292:
Hagan, Butler, and Johnson all received 20-years-to-life sentences in 1966. During his time in jail, Hagan earned bachelor's and master's degrees; he filed 16 times for parole but was denied each time. Butler was paroled in 1985 and Johnson in 1987. From 1988, Hagan was in a
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In 2021, Hagan expressed support that the convictions of Thomas Johnson and Norman 3X Butler were overturned, matching his original claims that they were not involved in the murder of Malcolm X.
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that he had planned the shooting with four others (Johnson and Butler not being among them) to seek revenge for Malcolm X's public criticism of
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program, which allowed him to seek work outside the prison. It required him to spend only two days a week in
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Hagan being restrained by a police officer at the hospital where he was taken after assassinating Malcolm X
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Malcolm X's confessed killer expresses support for the exonerations.
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Assassin of Malcolm X Seeks Parole from New York State High Court
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Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by New York (state)
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When Malcolm X was shot on February 21, 1965, in the
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Assassinating Malcolm X
Paroled
New York State Division of Parole
Conviction(s)
Second degree murder
life in prison
Malcolm X
Manhattan
New York City
Sawed-off shotgun
semi-automatic pistols
/ˈhɡən/
Nation of Islam
assassinated
Malcolm X
Arabic
Audubon Ballroom
Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York City
Muhammad Abdul Aziz
1977 affidavit
Elijah Muhammad
Nation of Islam
work release
Lincoln Correctional Facility
Wards Island
Muslim


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