Tupac Shakur's murder pt. 1

On September 7th 1996 at the MGM Grand Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, Tupac Shakur attended a Mike Tyson boxing match. After the match, Tupac left with Suge Knight, who at the time was C.E.O. of the west coast record label Death Row Records, the label that Tupac was signed to. However, on their way out, Tupac and his bodyguards got into a fight with Orlando Anderson in the lobby of the MGM Casino. Anderson was a member of the Compton-based Southside Crips gang. After the brawl, Suge Knight and Tupac left in Knight’s car with Tupac’s entourage following in cars just behind them. While stopped at a traffic light at the intersection of Flamingo and Koval, a white Cadillac pulled up on the passenger side of Knight’s car and shot out of the window, hitting Tupac four times and grazing Knight in the head with a bullet fragment.

In 2014, 18 years after the shooting, Chris Carroll, a now retired Las Vegas Police Department sergeant came forward to say he was first at the scene. According to Carroll when he opened the car door, Tupac fell out of the car covered in blood, and Carroll asked “Who shot you?” and states that Tupac took a breath to respond and said “Fuck you” before slipping into unconsciousness, making those Tupac’s last words. Tupac was taken to the university medical centre and placed on life support in a medically induced coma. On September 13th 1996, six days after the shooting, Tupac died due to his injuries at the age of 25. One strange fact is that the Las Vegas police never arrested anyone in connection with the murder. They also failed to follow up with Yaki Kadafi, a member of Tupac’s entourage who was there that evening who claimed he could identify the assailant. However, Kadafi was unfortunately murdered two months later on November 10^th 1996 before he could be interviewed. A Las Vegas homicide detective who oversaw the case claimed it got “the same treatment as any other homicide here”.