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The aunt of dead rapper Tupac Shakur has become the first woman added to the FBI most-wanted terrorist list.

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The reward was today doubled to $2-million for Joanne Chesimard, the Black Liberation Army militant who fled prison for Cuba after being convicted of killing a New Jersey state trooper in 1973,

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is still offering US $1-million for information leading to Chesimard’s capture, and New Jersey is adding another U.S. $1-million, state Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa said today, the 40th anniversary of the killing.

Chesimard, born in New York, was a member of the Black Liberation Army, a revolutionary activist organization, when she killed Trooper Werner Foerster in a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike on May 2, 1973, the FBI said.

She was found guilty of first-degree murder in 1977 and sentenced to life in prison. She escaped two years later from a lockup in Clinton, New Jersey, and lived underground before being located in Cuba in 1984. She may still be living on the island, the agency said.

The murder took place after Foerster and another trooper stopped Chesimard and two accomplices for a motor vehicle violation, according to the FBI. Chesimard, who was wanted for her involvement in felonies including bank robbery, opened fire on the troopers “seemingly without provocation,” the FBI said. One was wounded, and Foerster was fatally shot “execution-style at point-blank range,” the agency said.