ĭespite Knight's injuries, and his vehicle having a flat tire, he was able to drive Shakur and himself a mile from the site, to Las Vegas Boulevard and Harmon Avenue. Yaki Kadafi was riding in the car behind Shakur with bodyguards at the time of the shooting and, along with members of the Death Row entourage, refused to cooperate with police. Alexander reported in his documentary, Before I Wake, that shortly after the assault, one of the convoy's cars followed the assailant but he never heard from the occupants. Shakur's bodyguard Frank Alexander stated that when he was about to ride along with Shakur in Knight's car, Shakur asked him to drive Jones's car instead, in case they needed additional vehicles from Club 662 back to their hotel. Knight was hit in the head by fragmentation. One of the bullets went into Shakur's right lung. Shakur was hit four times: twice in the chest, once in the arm, once in the thigh. The shooter, seated at the back of the Cadillac, rolled down the window and rapidly fired gunshots from a. (PDT), a white, four-door, late-model Cadillac pulled up to Knight's right side. Shakur, who was talking through the window of his brand new 1996 BMW 750iL, exchanged words with the two women, and invited them to go to Club 662. (PDT), while they were stopped at a red light at the intersection of East Flamingo Road and Koval Lane in front of the Maxim Hotel, a vehicle occupied by two women pulled up on their left side. The party was released a few minutes later without being cited. The plates were found in the trunk of Knight's car. ( PDT), Shakur and Knight were halted on Las Vegas Boulevard by officers from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Bike Patrol for playing the car stereo too loudly and not having license plates. Shooting and aftermath Photograph of Shakur and Knight taken by a photographer, minutes before the shootingĪt 11:00–11:05 p.m. Shakur left with Knight in a BMW sedan after changing clothes and went to Club 662, which was owned by Knight, to perform at a charity concert. He disclosed to girlfriend Kidada Jones his involvement in the Anderson fight, previously having promised to return to her after entering the MGM Grand and having her stay in a vehicle. Īfter the brawl, Shakur returned to his hotel, the Luxor Las Vegas. The fight, which was captured on the MGM Grand's video surveillance, was broken up by hotel security. Shakur and Knight's entourage assisted in assaulting Anderson. Shakur asked Anderson if he was from the "South" (Southside Crips) and punched him in the face, knocking him to the ground. Lane told Shakur, who in turn attacked Anderson in the lobby. Earlier that year, in July 1996, Anderson and a group of Southside Crips attempted to rob Lane in a Foot Locker store at the Lakewood Center mall in Lakewood, California. Pirus gang based in Compton, California, spotted Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson, from the rival South Side Compton Crips gang, in the MGM Grand lobby. After leaving the match, one of Knight's associates, Trevon "Tre" Lane, a member of the M.O.B. Mike Tyson boxing match with Marion "Suge" Knight, the head of Death Row Records, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Tupac Shakur attended the Bruce Seldon vs. 40-calibre Glock: two in the chest, one in the arm, and one in the thigh. Shakur was struck by four rounds fired from a. ( PDT), when the car carrying Shakur was stopped at a red light at East Flamingo Road and Koval Lane. Tupac Shakur, an American rapper, was fatally shot on September 7, 1996, in a drive-by shooting in the Las Vegas Valley, Nevada.
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