She was arrested in 1995 in connection with an alleged plot to kill Louis Farrakhan, by then the leader of the Nation of Islam who she believed was responsible for the assassination of her father.
She accepted a plea agreement under which she was required to undergo psychological counseling and treatment for her substance use disorders to avoid a prison sentence.
[2] In February 1965, when Qubilah was four years old, she roused her parents in the middle of the night with her screams: the family's house had been set on fire.
[4] As a youth, Qubilah Shabazz attended a Quaker-run summer camp called "Farm and Wilderness" in Vermont.
[2] With her sisters, she joined Jack and Jill, a social club for the children of well-off African Americans.
[5] After high school, she enrolled at Princeton University but was uncomfortable there, feeling that the white students were shunning her and that the African-American students resented her apparent lack of interest in their efforts to force the university to divest its investments in South Africa.
She began to drink heavily, and her mother and sisters often cared for Malcolm while Shabazz lived with various friends.
[7] For many years, Shabazz's mother, Betty, harbored resentment toward the Nation of Islam—and Louis Farrakhan in particular—for what she felt was their role in the assassination of her husband.
[15] In January 1995, Shabazz was indicted on charges of using telephones and crossing state lines in the plot to kill Farrakhan.
[19] Under the terms of the plea, she was required to undergo psychological counseling and treatment for her substance use disorders,[20] to attend school or become employed, and to avoid further legal trouble for two years.
[24] For the duration of Shabazz's treatment, her son Malcolm, then ten years old, was sent to live with her mother Betty in Yonkers, New York.
[27][28] Then, in 2013, at the age of 28, her son Malcolm died due to injuries sustained in a fight over a bill at a bar in Mexico City.