Tupac was murdered in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas one night after watching a Mike Tyson boxing match with Suge Knight, the C.E.O. of Death Row Records (a west coast label) at the time. After the match, Tupac and his bodyguards had an altercation with Orlando Anderson in the lobby of the MGM casino. Orlando Anderson was a member of the South Side Crips, a Compton-based gang. After the fight, Tupac and Suge left in the same car with Tupac entourage following behind. The drive-by shooting occured, with bullets hitting Tupac multiple times and grazing Suge's head. Tupac died 6 days later in hospital, at the age of 25.
The LVPS didn't arrest anyone in connection with the murder and didn't follow up Yaki Kadafi's (a member of Tupac's entourage) claim that he saw who killed Tupac. Yaki was murdered 2 months later.
Theory 1:
From LA times journalist, Chuck Phillips, who gathered his evidence using anonymous sources.
- Orlando Anderson, The Crips, and Biggie Smalls killed Tupac.
- First conclusion: Member of the Crips were involved as a retaliation to the earlier assault of Orlando Anderson.
- Second conclusion: Orlando was the shooter.
- Third conclusion: Biggie Smalls paid $1 million for the assassination of Tupac. He also bought the gun for it to be done with, because he wanted it to be done with his gun.
- Biggie and Tupac had a well-known feud, and Biggie was furious that Tupac claimed to have slept with him wife in his song 'Hit 'em up'. There had also been verbal altercations and other diss tracks.
- Biggie nor anyone associated with him were arrested in connection with the death.
- Orlando Anderson was shot and killed in 1998. He denied he killed Tupac.
Theory Two:
From Russell Poole, former LAPD detective.
- Suge Knight set up the murder.
- Though he was hit in the shooting, he also had motives to kill Tupac, such as: Suge Knight owing Tupac money (up to $3 million), which gained more traction when Tupac's mother sued Death Row Records for mishandling her son's money. Secondly, Tupac was planning to leave the record label - Tupac had fired his lawyer, who was also Suge Knight's lawyer, and had written Tupac's contract with the label. A week after his lawyer had been fired was when Suge Knight invited Tupac to the Mike Tyson match.
- After the fight in the lobby when everybody was fleeing the scene, Suge stopped to make a phone call. He also insisted that Tupac ride with him. The car was shot at on Tupac's side (as though the shooter had been told).
- Orlando's statements on the fight go from claiming Suge was involved, to then claiming he was trying to pull people off Orlando. This suggests a pay-off.
- It was never confirmed that Suge Knight was shot at all. A 2014 report, however, says that Knight's head had clearly been wounded and that he was worried about Tupac. Some think the officer who reported this may have also been paid off by Knight.
Theory Three:
From LAPD detective Greg Kading.
- Sean Combs, a.k.a. P. Diddy, C.E.O. of Bad Boy Records (an east coast label) was behind Tupac's death.
- A Crips member, Keith Davis, confessed on tape to Kading, claiming that P. Diddy paid him $1 million to murder both Tupac and Suge Knight.
- Orlando Anderson was Keith Davis' nephew.
- He confessed that Orlando pulled the trigger. David also claims he was in the car.
- The motive here is that P. Diddy was worried that Suge Knight was going to have him murdered first. Tupac was only included because of 'Him 'Em Up', which pissed Diddy off.
- Another thing to note is that Tupac had been shot multiple times before at his recording studio in 1994. This was in New York City. Tupac said that he though it was people associated with Diddy. A man by the name of Dexter Isaac helped this claim by stating in 2011 that Diddy hired him to rob Tupac the same night.
- P. Diddy has denied he was involved.
- Keith Davis' claim may be unreliable because he confessed to get a sentence of 25-to-life down (for unrelated activities).
Theory Four:
- The Jewish Defense League - a far-right, pro-Israel, extremist organization - had Tupac killed because of political reasons.
- Both of Tupac's parents were in the Black Panther Party (who support Palestine), who heavily influenced Tupac's political views.
- The FBI had files of death threats from the JDL towards Tupac.
Theory Five:
- Tupac is still alive, and faked his own death.
- Last year, a man named David Myers reportedly claimed to have helped Tupac fake his own death.
- However, this story has no other 'evidence' and is believed to have originated from a fake news site.
- A lot of people believe Tupac is alive and well in Cuba.
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Who do you think killed Tupac, ONTD? Do you have any other theories?