Assata Shakur, US Fugitive and Godmother to Tupac, Dies in Cuba

Assata Shakur, a member of the Black Liberation Army who lived as a fugitive in Cuba for decades, drawing the ire of successive US administrations, has died on the communist-run island at age 78.

Shakur fled to Havana after breaking out of of a New Jersey prison in 1979, where she was serving a life sentence for the 1973 killing of a police officer. She lived underground for a few years before surfacing on the island in 1984, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.