Murder of Tupac Shakur

pWotD Episode 3409: Murder of Tupac Shakur

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With 231,824 views on Tuesday, 1 September 2026 our article of the day is Murder of Tupac Shakur.

On September 7, 1996, at 11:15 p.m. (PDT), Tupac Shakur, a 25-year-old American rapper, was shot in a drive-by shooting in Paradise, Nevada. The shooting occurred when the car carrying Shakur was stopped at a red light at East Flamingo Road and Koval Lane. Shakur was struck by four rounds fired from a .40-caliber Glock 22 pistol: two in the chest, one in the arm and one in the thigh. The driver, Death Row Records mogul Suge Knight, was grazed by a bullet in the shooting. Shakur died from his injuries six days later.

Orlando Anderson, a member of the gang known as the South Side Compton Crips, was suspected in the murder but denied being involved and was never charged; he was killed in an unrelated gang shooting in 1998. On September 29, 2023, Duane "Keffe D" Davis, Anderson's uncle, was arrested after being indicted by a grand jury for first-degree murder of Shakur. Davis' trial began on August 10, 2026, and he was convicted on August 31.

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