| What Happened to 2Pac? |
|
|
September 13, 1996 - Trouble-plagued rapper and actor Tupac Shakur is dead at the age of 25 - just about a week after sustaining 4 bullet wounds last Saturday night in Las Vegas. Shakur spent the week in the hospital on a respirator in critical condition. The Reverend Jesse Jackson, members of the Nation of Islam, and fellow Death Row Records artist Hammer visited Shakur's bedside on Sunday, when he had one of his lungs removed. Shakur's mother, Afeni - featured in his "Dear Mama" video - and other family members kept a vigil at his hospital room in the intensive care unit of University Medical Center in Las Vegas. Early in the week, doctors rated Tupac's chances of survival at one in five, then said his chances had improved on Tuesday, then on Thursday declined to speculate on his prognosis at all. On the night of the shooting, Tupac and Suge Knight left Knight's home at around 10:30 PM to go to Club 662. By 11:15 that evening, they were heading east on Flamingo, just coming to the intersection at Koval. They were driving a black BMW 1996 model. Knight was driving and Tupac was in the passenger's seat. Along the passenger's side came a late model white Cadillac. From inside, shots were fired, 14 of them. Tupac was hit four times, twice in the chest, once in the arm, and once in the thigh. Knight was mildly injured by some bullet fragments; but he promptly floored the car, spinning it completely around and took a U-turn so it instantly headed east on Flamingo. With Tupac bleeding profusely in the passenger seat, Suge Knight was able to get his vehicle just about a mile away from the site of the shooting, something of a miracle given his condition, the condition of the car - which had a flat tire - and the fact that the traffic on the strip after a heavyweight fight in Vegas is something to behold. They made it to Las Vegas Boulevard and Harmon Avenue, where they were finally pulled over by the bike patrol, who radioed ahead to paramedics, who swept them off to University Medical Center - their evening out in Las Vegas ending just a few steps away from where it had begun, the MGM Grand. *See More Related Stories about the mystery of his death *Back 2 Tupac main page *Back 2 my main page |
|
|
| Copy Rights Jamal Inc.2002-2003 All rights reserved |
| Mother: Afeni Shakur Biological Father: Billy Garland Father: Mutulu Shakur Brother: Mopreme (Maurice Harding) a member of Thug Life. Uncle: Zayd Shakur Uncle: Lumumba Shakur God Faher: Geronimo Pratt |
| Biological father of Tupac. Tupac was told that his father was dead, but he first met him in hospital after being shot in New York. His father was a member of the Black Panthers. |
| Tupac Family Members: |
 |