Three men were convicted of the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X: Talmadge Hayer, Norman 3X Butler, and Thomas 15X Johnson.
He testified that Butler and Johnson were not present and were not involved in the shooting, but he declined to name the men who had joined him in the attack.
[2] In 1977 and 1978, Hayer submitted two affidavits re-asserting his claim that Butler and Johnson were not involved in the assassination.
In his affidavits Hayer named four men, all members of the Nation of Islam's Newark, New Jersey, Temple Number 25, as having participated with him in the crime.
Hayer said that a man named "Willie", later identified as William Bradley, had a shotgun and was the first to fire on Malcolm X after the diversion.
[7][8] Hayer, now known as Mujahid Halim,[9] also disavowed the Nation of Islam's ideology, though he remains a practicing Muslim.