Timeline of Events 8:39pm: Mike Tyson knocks out Bruce Seldon at the MGM Grand Hotel, in Las Vegas
8:45pm: As Tupac Shakur leaves the MGM Grand, he gets into an altercation with a young black man believed to be Orlando Anderson, member of a rival gang, The Southside Crips. 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. Tupac Shakur and Knight ride in his black BMW 750.
Approx. 10:55pm: Tupac Shakur rolls down the passenger side window to allow someone to take the above photo at a red light.
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) and for playing music too loud. No ticket is issued.
Approx. 11:15pm: On Flamingo Road, near the intersection of Koval Lane, a white 4-door cadillac with California plates rolls up to the passenger side of the BMW. According to one witness, two men got out of the Cadillac and fire 13 rounds from a Glock .40 caliber handgun at the BMW from less than 13 feet away. Tupac Shakur, sitting in the passenger side of the car, is hit three times, one striking his hip, another his right hand, with the fatal wound to his chest. According to the witness, Tupac Shakur attempts to jump into the back seat of the car as he is being shot but Suge pulls him down into the seat. Two tires are punctured in the barrage of gunfire. Knight suffers a minor wound to his head or neck. Suge turns to Tupac and asks "Are you OK Pac?" Tupac Shakur, after seeing blood on Knight's head says, "Me? You're the one shot in the mutha-fuckin' head!"
11:16pm: Knight makes a U-turn on Flamingo, races west to Las Vegas Boulevard, makes a left turn. After encountering heavy traffic on the strip Knight's car hits the median blowing out a third tire and comes to a stop near the intersection of Harmon Avenue.
11:16 - 11:20pm: Up to 20 police officers arrive at the scene
September 13, 1996; 4:03pm: Tupac Shakur dies from his wounds six days after being placed into a medically induced coma.
The Witnesses 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 days after tupac was shot. 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 Yupac Shakur's backing group Outlaw Immortalz, was riding with bodyguards in the car behind Shakur when the rapper was shot by unknown assailants 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.
The one bright spot in an otherwise dire news week at Death Row came 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.
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Looking east on Flamingo Rd. approaching the Koval intersection. The BMW in which Tupac was riding would have been in the eastbound center lane, just to the right of the red car above. A Chrysler sedan would pull up to their left (approx. location of the red car.) The white cadillac (with the gunmen) would pull up to their right (far right lane above).
Another view of the Koval-Flamingo intersection where Tupac was shot in his car.
Intersection of Las Vegas Blvd. (The Strip) and Harmon Ave, where Suge's car finally came to a rest with the wounded Tupac aboard.
The Luxor Hotel Casino where Tupac Shakur was staying the night of his death.
MGM Hotel and Casino where Tupac and Suge attended the Mike Tyson Bruce Seldon fight.
Video still of Orlando Anderson from the MGM Grand video cameras. Believed to be the man attacked by Tupac's posse in the MGM lobby.
Club 662. Owned by Suge Knight and located at 1700 East Flamingo Road. Tupac was riding in Knight's car as the pair was heading here to perform with the rap group Run DMC. Mike Tyson was reportedly to drop in after the fight as well.
University Medical Center where Knight and Tupac were rushed after being shot. Tupac died here six days later.
Video of Tupac Shakur's altercation with a man believed to be Orlando Anderson in the MGM Grand Hotel.
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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.
The Witnesses
