Convicted cop killer Joanne Chesimard, an FBI Most Wanted terrorist, dead in Cuba, communist regime says

Fox News ^ | September 25, 2025 | Louis Casiano

[WhiteHatBobby0701]

Cuban officials on Friday said that Joanne Chesimard, who was convicted of killing a New Jersey state trooper, has died in Havana decades after breaking out of prison and escaping to the communist island.

Cuba's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Chesimard, who was born JoAnne Deborah Byron and was also known as Assata Olugbala Shakur, passed away after living there for years under asylum granted by the Cuban government.

"On September 25, 2025, American citizen Joanne Deborah Byron, ‘Assata Shakur,’ passed away in Havana, Cuba, due to health conditions and advanced age," the ministry's statement said.

In 1977, Chesimard was convicted of the murder of State Trooper Werner Foerster, who left behind a wife and 3-year-old son, during a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973.

In 1977, she was found guilty of first-degree murder, armed robbery, and other crimes and was sentenced to life in prison. She escaped from prison in 1979 and lived underground before surfacing in Cuba in 1984.

[WhiteHatBobby0701]

She was given maximum sentence of life in 1977 (federal ban on death penalty after Furman v Georgia) for killing a policeman. She escaped in 1979, found in Cuba and given asylum by Fidel Castro in 1984.

Link to Mrs. Chesimard's FBI page: https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/wanted_terrorists/joanne-deborah-chesimard

[kenmcg]

Too bad , she should have assumed room temperature decades ago. Hell is a little hotter today.

[rktman]

I pray its just the right temperature where she’s headed.

[Rummyfan]

Adios you POS!

[Red Badger]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assata_Shakur

[frank ballenger]

Dems have trumpeted that the Cuban socialist medicine system was far superior to the US system. How did the old bag croak?

[ComputerGuy]

I see that like me, she was a Cancer.

[Resolute Conservative]

Too bad our worthless intel agencies didn’t off her when they found out where she was. Seems they pick and choose who they eradicate based on leftist or not.

[Flavious_Maximus]

Living in a communist shithole country (Cuba) was like a death sentence anyway. /spit

[OldHarbor]

Tupac’s grandmother .

[Mark]

Larry Elder did a large write-up back when it started.

[laplata]

How did the old bag croak?

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She was old.

[newfreep]

The HERO vs another black treasonous terrorist ZERO...

[Impala64ssa]

Good riddance to bad rubbish. Now either cremate the stiff or put it in the ground before it stinks up the place and turns into a biohazard. (Just giving them the same respect they gave Charlie Kirk)

[Impala64ssa]

Tupac’s grandmother
Didn't know that but it figures

[Salvavida]

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”-- Revelation 21:8

She inherited a cornucopia of eternal justice.

[Verginius Rufus]

78 years old is now “advanced age”? She was younger than four of the five living men who have been elected President.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

I do not say this lightly, but she is probably burning in Hell.

[chuckee]

Keep the body. We don’t want it here. She’s your worm food, not ours.

[fella]

Which member of the Castro Clan is ruling over Cuba now?