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Tupac Shakur Death Mystery: Las Vegas Police Serve Warrant In Relation To Rap Icon’s 1996 Shooting
Deadline ^ | July 18, 2023 | Tom Tapp

Posted on 07/18/2023 11:50:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Local authorities have confirmed that Las Vegas Metropolitan Police served a search warrant on Monday in nearby Henderson, Nevada related to the unsolved 1996 shooting of hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur on the Las Vegas Strip. That, according to multiple reports.

“The search warrant that we conducted is in connection with the Tupac Shakur case,” Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Jason Johansson told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

“It has been a while” since the shooting, Johansson said. “It’s a case that’s gone unsolved and hopefully one day we can change that.”

Shakur was 25 when he was gunned down near the Las Vegas Strip. The musician was struck by two rounds in the chest, one in the arm and one in the thigh while sitting in a vehicle on the night of the Mike Tyson-Bruce Seldon fight. He died at a hospital six days later.

The events of that evening and questions surrounding the unsolved case have been the subject of numerous film and TV explorations, including U.S.A.’s 2018 series Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and Biggie Smalls, the 2017 doc Who Shot Biggie and Tupac?, the 2017 biopic All Eyez on Me from Summit, Morgan Creek, Program Pictures and Codeblack Films, Nick Broomfield’s 2002 feature-length documentary Biggie & Tupac, FX’s Emmy-nominated series Dear Mama: The Saga of Afeni and Tupac Shakur, which premiered earlier this year, the Oscar-nominated film Tupac: Resurrection and many more.

Shakur produced five No. 1 albums in a career that lasted as many years. He was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2017.


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1 posted on 07/18/2023 11:50:50 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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[Local authorities have confirmed that Las Vegas Metropolitan Police served a search warrant on Monday in nearby Henderson, Nevada related to the unsolved 1996 shooting of hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur on the Las Vegas Strip.]

Thank goodness. I can now sleep peacefully for the first time in about 27 years.


2 posted on 07/18/2023 11:56:46 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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Tupak is dead from the code of black omerta that exists in the rap music industry.

Ain’t no one snitching, at least more than once.


3 posted on 07/19/2023 12:05:12 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: texas booster

[omerta]

I learned a new word today! :)


4 posted on 07/19/2023 12:09:52 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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cRap is the anthem of a culture that promotes violence and respects nothing else. When a cRapper (like Sixpak) gets murdered, they’re just reaping the whirlwind. Police should spare taxpayers the expense by writing it off as “Death By Natural Causes” and closing the book.


5 posted on 07/19/2023 1:04:37 AM PDT by threefinger
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To: texas booster
Tupak is dead from the code of black omerta that exists in the rap music industry. Ain’t no one snitching, at least more than once.

I was going to point out a glaring exception, Takashi 6ix9ine, who was all about snitching the crap out of everyone.... but it turns out he was recently and savagely beaten..... so it looks like you are right.

6 posted on 07/19/2023 1:13:20 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: nickcarraway

I remember people telling me about it when it happened acting as though it were a big deal. I just had one question: Who is this “Two Pack”? I’d never heard of him. Then again, I don’t listen to (c)rap.


7 posted on 07/19/2023 1:18:20 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: texas booster
The killing of Tupac stemmed from the bitter, gang-like, and gang-infused rivalry between rival rap music production companies based on the East and West coasts. An immediate trigger seems to have been a fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

As it was, the investigation stalled due to police errors and possible misconduct and the rap music industry code of silence. The leading theory is that Christopher Wallace, known as The Notorious B.I.G., was behind the killing of Tupac and that his later death by gunfire was in retribution. Like Tupac, Notorious B.I.G.'s death is unsolved.

8 posted on 07/19/2023 1:45:16 AM PDT by Rockingham
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[Then again, I don’t listen to (c)rap.]

Wise choice

I do, when I’m pumping my gas, and some idiot pulls up to the gas station, destroying his speakers.


9 posted on 07/19/2023 1:54:47 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: nickcarraway

Is Jack Smith going to indict Trump for this too ???


10 posted on 07/19/2023 2:01:47 AM PDT by XRdsRev (Justice for Bernell Trammell, Trump supporter, murdered in 2020)
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who really cares, really. Gangbangers die everyday in chicago


11 posted on 07/19/2023 3:05:31 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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“inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2017.”
So much for any credibility with that organization.


12 posted on 07/19/2023 3:56:07 AM PDT by Fireone (Trump won.)
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To: nickcarraway

After nearly 30 years, police are still investigating the crime, gathering evidence, etc. Contrast that with the White House cocaine case, where the investigation was shut down after 10 days, and evidence destroyed.


13 posted on 07/19/2023 4:02:13 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: SaveFerris

I always wanted to invent a device that you could point toward the offending “sylstem”, squeeze an activator and fry the speakers.


14 posted on 07/19/2023 4:21:11 AM PDT by weezel
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Maybe in another 23 years, we’ll find out why that guy killed 53 people in Las Vegas.


15 posted on 07/19/2023 4:24:40 AM PDT by euram (allALL)
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we’ll find out why that guy killed 53 people in Las Vegas.

Odds are there were more than that one guy - most likely CIA, FIB, etc contributed to the mass shooting....

16 posted on 07/19/2023 4:33:13 AM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: weezel

I’ll buy one!!


17 posted on 07/19/2023 5:14:49 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: nickcarraway

RAP
Retards Attempting Poetry


18 posted on 07/19/2023 5:16:49 AM PDT by dixie1202
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To: nickcarraway

Epps is claiming his reputation got hurt by public speculation that he was working undercover for the Federal government.

Besides being true, why would the court consider such a label harmful?

If he wasn’t there working for the Feds than he’s an “insurrectionist” like all the other J6 protesters.


19 posted on 07/19/2023 5:20:04 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: FLT-bird

The smaller brother of 6 pack.


20 posted on 07/19/2023 5:23:29 AM PDT by gunnut
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