After serving nearly 40 years in prison for the 1981 Brinks armored-truck heist that resulted in the deaths of two police officers and a security guard, Tupac Shakur’s stepfather, Mutulu Shakur was finally released from prison.
According to lohud.com, Mutulu Shakur, who was serving a 60-year term, had been given permission to be released on Monday for medical grounds by the US Parole Commission.
The 72 year old famed late rapper’s stepfather and former Black Liberation Army member, is now terminally ill.
“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 parole board reportedly took into account mutulu’s “exemplary conduct in prison, his medical condition and how much time he has served,” the statement went on to say.
His release did not come as a total shock, however, as it was revealed he would be freed 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.
