The Shooting

 

Events Leading Up To The Shooting

  8:39pm: Mike Tyson knocks out Bruce Seldon at the MGM Grand Hotel, in Las Vegas

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.

 

Witness Of The Shooting

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.

  But Fula's death will further stymie the slow-moving murder investigation. "It's another dead end for us," said Las Vegas police Sgt. Kevin Manning, the lead investigator.

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.

  Two suspects, both juveniles, were arrested and are being questioned by Orange police. "As far as we know, at this time, there is no connection" to Shakur, said Capt. Richard Conte.

  Fula, a member of Shakur's backing group Outlaw Immortalz, was riding with bodyguards in the car behind Shakur when the rapper was shot by unknown a*sailants returning from the Tyson-Bruce fight September 7 in Las Vegas. Police questioned Fula after the drive-by, but, like others in the Death Row Records entourage, he subsequently refused to cooperate with police.

  Strangely enough, Fula was also murdered the night of a Mike Tyson fight. Evander Holyfield defeated Mike Tyson just hours before Fula was killed.

  Meanwhile, Shakur's driving companion and Death Row Records head Marion "Suge" Knight is sitting in a Los Angeles courtroom today accused of drug-related probation violations. His nine-year prison sentence for beating two rappers could be reinstated. Later this month, federal prosecutors will contend he used marijuana in violation of a 1994 firearms trafficking conviction in Las Vegas.

  The one bright spot in an otherwise dire news week at Death Row comes courtesy of Shakur's posthumous album, The Don Killuminati--The 7 Day Theory. Recorded under the alias Makaveli, the collection entered the charts at No. 1, with incredibly strong sales of 664,000 copies.