Abdul Majid
Age: 65
Summary: convicted
murderer and black nationalist who was convicted with an accomplice for
the murder of New York City police officer John Scarangella and the
attempted murder of Scarangella's partner Richard Rainey after the two
NYPD officers stopped a white van on a Queens street in April 1981 to
question the two men inside about a series of local burglaries, and who
was serving a 25-years-to-life sentence at the upstate Five Points
Correctional Facility.
Cause of Death: Natural causes
Born: June 25, 1949
Died: April 3, 2016
Location: Syracuse, New York
