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The Mysterious Death of Tupac Shakur.

Shakur was born Lesane Parish Crooks on June 16th, 1971 to parents Afeni Shakur and Billy Garland. 

In 1984, Shakur and his family moved from New York City to Baltimore, Maryland. Shakur attended eighth grade at Roland Park Middle School, then ninth grade at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School. In tenth grade, Tupac transferred to the Baltimore School for the Arts where he then studied acting, poetry, jazz, and ballet.

Shakur began recording under the stage name MC New York in 1989. That same year, he began attending poetry classes held by Leila Steinberg. Steinburg later became his manager. In January 1991 Shakur debuted under the stage name 2pac on Digital Underground. Later in 1991, he debuted under the stage name 2pac.

In November 1993, Shakur and two other men were charged in New York with sodomizing a woman in Shakur's hotel room. The woman, Ayanna Jackson, alleged that after she performed oral sex on Shakur at a public night club in Manhattan, she went to his hotel room a later day, when Tupac, his record executive Jacques Agnant, and his road manager Charles Fuller forced her to perform non-consensual oral sex on each of them. On December 1, 1994, Shakur was acquitted of three counts of sodomy, but was convicted on two counts of first-degree sexual abuse. Later in February 1995, he was sentenced to 18 months- 4 1/2 years in prison. He was later bonded out in October of 1995, but was apprehended again after failing to show up for a road cleanup job.

On November 30, 1994, while in New York recording verses for a mixtape, Shakur was repeatedly distracted by his beeper. Music manager James "Jimmy Henchman" Rosemond, allegedly offered Shakur $7,000 to stop by Quad Studios to record a verse for his client Little Shawn. At first Shakur was unsure, but he agreed to the session as he needed the cash to pay for legal costs. He arrived with Stretch and about two others. In the lobby, three men robbed and beat him at gunpoint; Shakur resisted and was shot, he later speculated that the shooting had been a set-up.

Tupac attended the Bruce Seldon vs. Mike Tyson boxing match with Suge Knight, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. After leaving the match, one of Suge Knight's associates, Trayvon "Tray" Lane, a member of the M.O.B Prius gang, spotted Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson, from the rival Southside Crips gang, in the MGM Grand lobby.

Earlier that year, in May 1996, Anderson and a group of Southside Crips attempted to rob Lane in a footlocker store. Lane told Shakur, who in return attacker Anderson in the lobby. Shakur and Knight's entourage assisted in assaulting Anderson. After the brawl, Tupac returned to his hotel, and disclosed to his girlfriend Kidada Jones about his involvement in the Anderson fight after he previously promised to return to her after entering the MGM Grand and having her stay in a vehicle.

At 11:00-11:05 p.m., Shakur and Knight were halted on Las Vegas Boulevard by officers from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Bike Patrol for playing their car stereo too loudly, and not having license plates. The license plates were found in the trunk of Suge Knight's car. The party was quickly released without being cited. At 11:10 p.m., while they were stopped at a red light at the intersection of East Flamingo Road and Koval Lane, a vehicle occupied by two women pulled up on their left side, Shakur exchanged words with the two women, and invited them to go to Club 662.

At 11:15 p.m., a white, four-door, late model Cadillac pulled up to Knight's right side. The shooter seated in the back of the vehicle, rolled down the window and rapidly fired shots from a .40 S&W Glock 22 at Shakur's BMW. Shakur was hit four times— twice in the chest, once in the arm, and once in the thigh. One of the bullets went into Shakur's right lung. Knight was hit in the head by a fragmentation.

Despite 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. They were again pulled over by Bike Patrol who alerted paramedics through radio. After arriving on the scene paramedics rushed Knight and Shakur to the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada.

At the hospital, Shakur was heavily sedated, and placed on life support machines, and was put under a medically-induced coma after repeatedly trying to get out of bed.

Knight was released from the hospital on September 8th, but did not speak until September 11th. He told officers he "heard something, but saw nothing" the night of the shooting. Officers at the time of the shooting reported having no leads, as Shakur's entourage weren't really "cooperative".

On the afternoon of September 13th, 1996, Shakur died of respiratory failure that led to cardiac arrest after the removal of his right lung. Doctors attempted to revive him, but could not stop the hemorrhaging. Afeni later made the decision to cease medical treatment. Tupac was pronounced dead at 4:03 p.m.

One year after the shooting, Sgt. Kevin Manning, who lead the investigation told reporter Cathy Scott that Shakur's murder "may never be solved". The case slowed early in the investigation as few clues came in and witnessed clammed up.

In 2003, the Los Angeles Time released a two-part story by Chuck Phillips, titled "Who Killed Tupac Shakur?" based on the year long investigation.  Phillips reported that " the shooting was carried out by a Compton gang called the Southside Crips to avenge the beating of one of its members by Shakur a few hours earlier." Las Vegas police considered Anderson as a suspect, but only interviewed him once, and that interview was very brief. Anderson was killed nearly two years later in an unrelated gang shooting. This article also implicated East Coast rappers, such as The Notorious B.I.G., and several New York City criminals.

In the second article of Phillips' series assessed the murder investigation and said that Las Vegas police had mismanaged the probe. His article stated that the missteps of the Las Vegas police: were (1) discounting the fight that had taken place just hours before the shooting, in which Shakur was involved in;  (2) failing to follow up with a member of Shakur's entourage who witnessed the shooting, who told Las Vegas police that he could probably identify one or more of the assailants, but was killed before being interviewed; and (3) failing to follow up a lead from a witness who spotted a white Cadillac similar to the car from which the fatal shots were fired, and in which the shooters escaped.

In 2017, Knight claimed that he might have been the original target of the shooting that killed Shakur, arguing that it was a hit on him as a staged coup to seize control of Death Row Records.

THEORIES ON TUPAC'S DEATH!

SHAKUR FAKED HIS OWN DEATH:
This is perhaps the most widely believed theory. Conspiracy theorists have rationalized it by pointing to Shakur's respect for political philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli, whose treatise "The Art of War" has been misconstrued as advocating for faking one's death in order to manipulate an enemy. But believing that Machiavelli supported faking one's death, fans reasoned that Shakur's adoption of the stage name, Makaveli, and the inclusion of the phrase "Exit 2Pac, Enter Makaveli" in the album sleeve for The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory — an album which also depicted Shakur as Jesus Christ — were all deliberate clues left behind by the artist.

HE'S HIDING IN CUBA :
Some speculate that Shakur was weary of the bloodshed that accompanied rap beef and longed for an escape, holing up in Cuba with his aunt Assata Shakur.

SUGE KNIGHT & DAVID KENNER CALLED FOR HIS DEATH:
Tupac was becoming a very successful and outstanding rapper, and it came to Suge Knight's attention that Tupac was going to leave Death Row Records. It was later revealed that Shakur fired Kenner shortly before his death, and was looking to launch his own label, a move which would've barred Knight from the profits of Shakur's work. Knight WAS in fact in the car with Tupac on the night of the shooting, but looking at the police report, the shooter's car pulled up and shot at an angle that could really only hit Tupac. No shots really came close to hitting Knight.

DID THE FBI STAGE A COVERUP :
Many fans believe that Tupac was killed by the FBI in an attempt to end "violent rap culture", in the midst of the infamous West Coast vs. East Coast Hip-Hop war. There is also a belief that they killed The Notorious B.I.G. for the same reason. However this has never been proven.

DID ORLANDO ANDERSON KILL TUPAC?:
One of the most popular theories surrounding the death of Tupac, is that Southside Crip member Orlando Anderson was the killer. Tupac was involved in a fist-fight with Anderson while walking through the Las Vegas MGM Grand, following Mike Tyson's boxing match. Anderson was later shot to death in Compton very soon after Tupac's death, following a gun battle that left two other men dead.

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