The infamous stepdad of slain rapper Tupac Shakur has been released from prison after serving nearly 40 years in the 1981 Brinks armored-truck heist that left two Nyack cops and a security guard dead.
Mutulu Shakur, a 72-year-old former Black Liberation Army member who is terminally ill, was granted release by the US Parole Commission while serving a 60-year sentence, lohud.com reported.
“The decision to grant parole is based on federal law guidelines for ‘old law’ prisoners, finding that Dr. Shakur poses no threat to the community,” reads a statement on mutulushakur.com, a website maintained by his supporters.
The statement claimed parole officials also took into account Shakur’s “exemplary conduct in prison, his medical condition and how much time he has served.”
His pending release was revealed in court documents published last month.
“We now find your medical condition renders you so infirm of mind and body that you are no longer physically capable of committing any federal, state or local crime,” the parole commissioner wrote of Shakur at the time.
Shakur was married to Tupac’s mother, Afeni Shakur, in the 1970s and 1980s.
The immensely influential rap artist Tupac was killed in a 1996 drive-by shooting in Las Vegas.
Mutulu Skakur belonged to the radical group “The Family,” which was made up of members of the Black Liberation Army and the Weather Underground, and he helped pull off a dozen robberies between 1976 and 1981 before the deadly Brinks attack in Rockland County, lohud said.
During the Oct. 20, 1981, robbery, the violent crew shot and killed Brinks security guard Peter Paige and wounded his partner, Joseph Trombino, while stealing $1.6 million from the armored truck at the now-defunct Nanuet Mall.
When the killers reached a roadblock on the New York State Thruway, they opened fire on cops, murdering Nyack Police Sgt. Edward O’Grady and Officer Waverly “Chipper” Brown.
Trombino was later killed at the World Trade Center during the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attack.
Mutulo Shakur, who was on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list for years, fled the scene and remained a fugitive until federal agents tracked him down in California on Feb. 12, 1986.
Others involved in the Brinks robbery included Kathy Boudin, who served 22 years before being paroled in 2003. She died of cancer in May, lohud said.
Another member of the gang, Judith Clark, was paroled in 2019, and David Gilbert was released in October.
Law-enforcement supporters have long fought the convicts’ release.
