The truth about shakurs death.......He was shot on September 7, and died September 13, 1996. On September 7, 1996, Shakur attended the Mike Tyson - Bruce Seldon boxing match at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. After the boxing match, Shakur spotted 21 year-old Orlando Baby Lane Anderson, a member of the Southside Crips in the MGM Grand lobby. Shakur rushed him and knocked Anderson down, and Shakurs entourage beat him. The incident was captured on the hotels video surveillance. Anderson and a group of Crips had beaten up a member of Death Rows entourage in a Foot Locker a few weeks earlier, precipitating Shakurs attack. After the fight with Anderson, Shakur met up with Suge Knight to go to Death Row-owned Club 662 (now known as restaurant/club Seven). Shakur rode with Knight in Knights 1996 black BMW 750i sedan,[31][32] as part of a larger convoy of cars including some of Shakurs friends, The Outlawz, and bodyguards. At approximately 11:15 PM, while stopped at the intersection of East Flamingo Road and Koval Lane, Shakur was shot in a drive-by shooting. Shakur was hit four times, twice in the chest, and once each in his arm and thigh, while Knight was scratched in the head by a piece of flying glass. At the time of the shooting, Shakur was riding alongside with Suge Knight, with his bodyguard following behind in a vehicle belonging to Kidada Jones, Shakurs then-fiancée. The bodyguard, Frank Alexander, stated that while he was about to ride along with the rapper in Suge Knights car, Shakur asked him to drive Kidada Jones car in case they were too drunk and needed additional vehicles from Club 662 back to the hotel. Shortly after the shootings, the bodyguard reported in his documentary, Before I Wake, that one of the convoys cars drove off after the assailant but he never heard back from the occupants. After arriving on the scene, police and paramedics took Shakur and Knight to the University Medical Center. Shakur was placed on life support until his death six days later, on September 13, 1996, at 4:03 PM PDT at the age of 25. The official cause of death was respiratory failure and cardiac arrest. After his death, Shakurs body was cremated. His ashes were spread over Los Angeles, the Pacific Ocean, Shakurs aunts land and his mothers land in North Carolina, and some has been mixed with marijuana and smoked by The Outlawz.[33] Family and friends plan to spread the remaining ashes during a ceremony in Soweto, South Africa. The ceremony has been delayed from September 13, 2006, to June 16, 2007, which would have been Shakurs 36th birthday.[34]
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