Tupac’s murder has spawned a smorgasbord of conspiracy theories, his death catalyzing a cottage industry of books, documentaries, even a big-time Hollywood film starring Johnny Depp, “City of Lies,” released in April.Įaalirer this month, the Mob Museum weighed in with a new program, “One Night in Las Vegas: The 25th Anniversary of the Tupac Shakur Murder.” “There’s too many dirty details,” she continues, “too many people who will come under fire, too many secrets that will probably get out, that shouldn’t be out. “It depends on who you talk to,” says Stephanie Frederic, a journalist and film producer who’s worked on the Shakur biopic “All Eyez on Me” and the A&E documentary series “Who Killed Tupac?” “If you ask the Las Vegas police department, they’ll tell you it’s because, ‘Well, the people who know aren’t talking.’ When you talk to the people who do know, they’re like, ‘Oh, that situation is handled.’ The case remains unsolved, cold as the act of murdering a man. Two and a half decades later, no one has ever been arrested for his killing.

Six days after the shooting, Tupac Shakur died. 40 caliber bullets: two in the chest, one in the thigh, one in the arm. Two hours later, Shakur is gunned down in his black BMW as it idles at a red light on Flamingo Road and Koval Lane.įour. Security cameras capture the scene, following Shakur departing the property in an adrenalized, get-the-hell-out-my-way strut.Īnd that’s the last we ever see of him alive. He instigates a brief but brutal brawl in the hotel lobby that leaves Anderson flat on his back, absorbing kicks and the casino carpet at once. “Twenty blows! Twenty blows!” associates recall him exclaiming upon Tyson’s destruction of Seldon in under two dozen punches.Īs he’s walking back through the hotel, Shakur spots Orlando Anderson, a known gang member who got into it with a member of Shakur’s Death Row Records crew, Travon “Tray” Lane, that year at a mall in Anderson’s native Los Angeles. Heavyweight champ Mike Tyson has just broken down Bruce Seldon without breaking a sweat at the MGM Grand, dispatching his foe in 109 seconds, ending things with a left hook unleashed like a tiger from a cage. Tupac Shakur’s swinging hard in the final footage captured of him alive. The last scene of his life unfolds in 12 grainy seconds. About one hundred people attended the gathering which was held at the location where Shakur was shot. Fans dance during a candlelight vigil on the second anniversary of the death of Tupac Shakur.

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