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Reports of Suicide Still Swirling, NYPD Now Calls NY Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam’s Drowning Death ‘Suspicious’
The New York City Police Department now says that state Justice Sheila Abdus-Salaam’s death is “suspicious” after officials last week told the Associated Press that Abdus-Salaam’s drowning death was being treated as a suicide. As previously reported by The Root, Abdus-Salaam, 65, the first Muslim woman in U.S. history to become a judge and the…