I think “Trying to confuse” and “Trying to find data” are more likely.
Nah...no one is trying to confuse nobody, you just haven’t been following the story, Jo Ann Newman changed her name to Valerie after she wrote the tribute, she’s really a boy, he/she became zero’s guardian after he was born in Hawaii and they lived in an apartment just around the corner from a famous civil-rights activist in New York, you know that because his address was listed in a directory (I assume, Martha says so, I never saw it) when he was a toddler, it must have said ; little Bari M Shabazz lives here...and when he grew up he joined the Navy or summat and ended up at Quatico and then he moved to Hawaii, probably still in the service, and he had a car accident, in which no one was injured because there was no report of any injury, and when he died in 1994, they buried Barrington Smith along with Bari.
Something like that..and what a stupid waste of time it all is. Welcome to the world of Martha Trowbridge, who started this garbage and now you have to register to read it.