Murder of Tupac Shakur
| Murder of Tupac Shakur | |
|---|---|
Tupac Shakur (front) with Suge Knight (back) minutes before Shakur was shot | |
| Location | Paradise, Nevada, U.S. |
| Date | September 7, 1996 11:15 p.m. (PDT) |
| Target | Tupac Shakur |
Attack type | Drive-by shooting, assassination |
| Weapon | .40 caliber Glock 22 pistol |
| Deaths | Tupac Shakur; (death occurred six days later after drive-by shooting) |
| Injured | Suge Knight |
| Motive | Unknown |
| Accused |
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| Charges | Davis: First-degree murder |
On September 7, 1996, at 11:15 p.m. (PDT), Tupac Shakur, a 25-year-old American rapper, was shot in a drive-by shooting in Paradise, Nevada. The shooting occurred when the car carrying Shakur was stopped at a red light at East Flamingo Road and Koval Lane. The driver, Marion "Suge" Knight, was grazed by a bullet in the shooting. Shakur died from his injuries six days later, on September 13, 1996.
Shakur was struck by four rounds fired from a .40-calibre Glock: two in the chest, one in the arm, and one in the thigh.
Orlando Anderson, a Crips gang member, was suspected in the murder but denied being involved and was never charged. He was killed in an unrelated gang shootout in 1998. On September 29, 2023, 27 years after Shakur's murder, Duane "Keefe D" Davis, Anderson's uncle, was arrested after being indicted by a grand jury for the first-degree murder of Shakur.