A woman on the FBI’s most wanted terrorists list convicted of killing a New Jersey State Police trooper more than 50 years ago has died in Cuba, where she fled after an armed prison escape.

Joanne Debora Byron, also known as Joanne Chesimard and Assata Shakur, died in Havana at age 78 due to “health conditions and advanced age,” the Cuba Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Friday.

Byron was known as Joanne Chesimard when a gun battle broke out during traffic stop on the New Jersey Turnpike in Middlesex County in 1973 and and Trooper Werner Foerster was shot and killed.

She broke out of a New Jersey prison in 1979 and escaped to Cuba.

Chesimard had been on the State Police’s most-wanted list for decades. A $2 million reward had been offered for her capture.

The car Chesimard and t

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