| 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. |
| Approx.
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 centre. |