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.
Take the SS , approach on this and leave it alone.
meh.
When he died my honky racist coworker got mad at the boss over something and stormed out of the room. I assured the boss he was ‘just upset over the death of Tupac Shaker’. Big-time laughter-blacks too.
Unsolved 1996 shooting that was probably contracted by some other rap gangster? What's the rush? By contrast:
Hunter Biden was 26 at the time. Just saying.
A LOT of money has been made over these rapper deaths, which is unsurprising. Sadly, though, it has infiltrated middle class culture, and educated white kids are growing up with these myths. High school teachers actually teach it to them (I’ve seen it).
Years back I read about one event, that to me is telling.
A salient point of Mr. Tupac’s life was taking a gunned-down friend’s daughter to the prom, and yes I believe it to be a factual event documented before his death.
Not the usual postmortem say nice things story.
He heard that the girl’s prom date dumped her, he stopped by the house and offered to be her escort...
To the prom they went to the surprise of many.
Seeing this and reading around, it appears there was a lot more to this artist than his gang connections.
His net assessment was that the criminal justice system tended to be too soft on young criminals and too hard on older ones, and too easy on those who lived off crime and too hard on those who got caught when they yielded to an isolated criminal opportunity.
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That sounds like a very on target assessment.
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