Major Coxson

Major Benjamin Coxson was a New Jersey (c. 1929 – June 8, 1973) politician, entrepreneur, and murder victim.

Coxson was murdered on June 8, 1973 along with his common law stepdaughter Lita, in a gangland execution in his home on Barbara Drive in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.[1] He was simultaneously "a mayoral candidate (in Camden, New Jersey), flamboyant entrepreneur, media darling, civil rights activist, inner city power broker, fraudster, drug financier, and intermediary between Italian-American and African-American gangsters" according to Penn State Professor Sean Patrick Griffin who uses primary law enforcement records and crime reporting to make the case. The Black Mafia of Philadelphia is said to have ordered the murder of Coxson.

One former Coxson associate stated, "[Muhammad] Ali did not own the house that Coxson was murdered in. Ali lived on Winding Drive and I was friends with the Coxsons. I lived in Charleston Ridings and my house backed up to the Coxsons. Major was killed. Mrs Coxson was left blind. My parents told me the house was built and owned by a movie producer who rented the house out after a failed marriage."

According to Philadelpha's CityPaper (http://mycitypaper.com/articles/2002-11-07/cb2.shtml) "... the Muslim mob made headlines was when they murdered Major Coxson and his stepdaughter in Cherry Hill, N.J. An African-American, Coxson was a flamboyant underworld figure -- a car thief, a gangland fixer and a candidate for the mayor of Camden. But Underworld sources claim the Muslims ordered Coxson killed for failing to broker a major heroin deal between the New York Mafia and the local Muslim mob."

References

  1. ↑ Tomlinson, Gerald (1994). Murdered in Jersey. pp. 147–149. Retrieved December 8, 2013.

Toro the eldest son was left blind in one eye and Lex the youngest son at 13 escaped the brutality by breaking through a sliding door. Later he was put in witness protection as well as Toro. His companion, Lois Luby (not Mrs. Coxson) was not murdered, she survived as did Toro and Lex who escaped out of a sliding glass door and went to a neighbors for help. Major Coxson and Lois Luby's daughter Lita did not survive. The home was owned by a doctor.

CityPaper article 7/11/2002 Philadelpha's CityPaper (http://mycitypaper.com/articles/2002-11-07/cb2.shtml)

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