By far the most well-known act of crime that the Black Mafia carried out , the 1973 Hanafi Muslim massacre was what gained them national media attention . The site of this crime was Milwaukee Bucks basketball player , Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 's house in Washington D.C. On January 18 , 1973 , the mafia murdered seven Sunni Muslims . Two adults and five children , aged 9 days to 10 years , were murdered . The adults and one child were shot while the other children were drowned . The intended target of this crime was Hamaas Abdul Khaalis for a letter he had written to the NOI members claiming that Elijah Muhammad was a false prophet and that certain members of Elijah Muhammad 's NOI were merely gangsters who were harming the name of Islam . The difficulty in obtaining evidence to successfully prosecute the crime fomented a breakdown by Khaalis as he sought to draw attention to the case of his murdered family
1973 Hanafi Muslim massacre
1973 Hanafi Muslim massacre
Black Mafia