The 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur may be one step closer to being solved by authorities.
As part of the ongoing investigation into his death, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department executed a search warrant in Henderson, Nevada, on July 17, a city located about 15 miles from where the well-known rapper was tragically shot, the department said in a statement to N.B.C. News.
No other information was provided, including whether the warrant was delivered to a residence or a place of business.
The news comes more than 26 years after Shakur was killed at a Las Vegas intersection in a drive-by shooting. The West Coast-based emcee was shot four times on September 7, 1996, while seated in the front seat of Marion “Suge” Knight, the founder of Death Row Records, while he drove a BMW.
Shakur was taken to a nearby hospital and kept in a critical care unit until his passing on September 13, 1996. He was 25.
The 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur may be one step closer to being solved by authorities.
“We have something called a dying declaration where, if someone is able to tell you, while they’re dying and they believe they’re going to die, who killed them, that’s admissible in court,” retired Las Vegas Metropolitan Police sergeant Chris Carroll told E! News in 2018. Carroll was on bicycle patrol at the time of the shooting and was the first officer on the scene that night. “So I inquired, “What transpired? Who fired the gun at you? Who did that? He was essentially ignoring me at the time.
Caroll stated, “I could just see him going into a relaxed state.” She recalled Shakur trying to yell at Knight, who had been injured in the head by a bullet fragment, but “couldn’t really get a breath together.” And as he glanced at me, and I believed I could finally get some cooperation, he took a deep breath, and I asked, “Who did this?” He turned to face me and said, “F–k you,” and that was it.
Since then, there have been numerous conspiracy theories about Shakur’s assassination, with the most well-known one being that it might be related to the shooting death of Christopher “The Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace, an East Coast rapper killed in Los Angeles six months later.
SOURCE – (AP)
