The Shooting
Events
Leading Up To The Shooting
8:45pm: As Shakur leaves the MGM Grand, he gets into an altercation with a young black man. MGM security video catches the incident on tape. The fight is stopped by security. A man involved in the fight with Shakur is held for questioning and then let go. The police never got the man's name.
8:55pm:
The
Death Row entourage leaves the MGM Grand and stops by the Luxor Hotel on the
Las Vegas Strip for reasons not known, then proceeds to Suge Knight's house
southeast of downtown.
Time
Unknown:
The
10-can Death Row entourage leaves the mansion en route to Knight's Club 662,
located about 10 blocks east of the Las Vegas Strip at 1700 E. Flamingo Road.
Shakur and Knight ride in his black BMW 750.
Approx.
11:10pm: The
BMW is stopped by bicycle police on the Las Vegas strip for not having a
license plate on the car (the plates are in the trunk) No ticket is
issued.
11:15pm:
On
Flamingo Road, near the intersection of Koval Lane, a white cadillac rolls up
to the pa*senger side of the BMW. According to one witness, two men got
out of the Cadillac and fire 13 rounds at the BMW from less than 13 feet away.
Shakur, sitting in the pa*senger side of the car, is hit four times, with two
lethal wounds to his chest. According to the witness, Shakur attempts to
jump into the back seat of the car as he is being shot. Knight suffers
minor wound to his head.
11:16pm:
Knight makes a U-turn on Flamingo, races west to
Las Vegas Boulevard, makes a left turn and comes to a stop near the
intersection of Harmon Avenue.
11:16
- 11:20pm: Up
to 20 police officers arrive at the scene.
Approx.
11:30pm: An
ambulance arrives and whisks Shakur and Knight to the medical center.
One
of Tupac Shakur's backup rappers who witnessed the fatal shooting of the
hip-hop star was gunned down in a New Jersey housing project this weekend. So
far, police are saying that the slaying of 19-year-old Yafeu Fula has no
connection with Tupac's death.
Police found Fula at 3:48 a.m. Sunday in a housing project. He was shot once in the head and was pronounced dead later that afternoon at a nearby hospital.