Orlando Anderson (aka Baby Lane) was born on August 13, 1974 and was an alleged affiliate of the South Side Compton Crip. Orlando is believed by many of Tupac’s fan’s to be the man who killed Tupac, and if he didnt he was involved in the shooting in someway. Whatever the case, the fact is that at one time he was a person of interest in the brief investigation of the murder of Tupac by Compton and Las Vegas police. Specifically Detective Tim Brennan of Compton filed an affidavit naming him as as a suspect. On the night of September 7, 1996 Orlando and Tupac’s entourage were involved in a fight at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas just three hours before Tupac’s shooting. These events led to public speculation, but after two days of questioning Anderson in detention the Las Vegas homicide detective Lt. Larry Spinosa told the media, “At this point, Orlando Anderson is not a suspect in the shooting of Tupac Shakur.” Later in the investigation, Orlando was named a suspect once more. Stories circulated on the street that Orlando had bragged about shooting the rapper, which he denied in an interview for VIBE magazine later (se below for the interview transcript). Orlando was caught up in a round up of suspects in Compton almost a month after the shooting with 21 other alleged gang members and was detained and questioned, but not charged. However, the raid was only tangentially connected to the Tupac shooting as Compton police admitted they were investigating local shootings and not the shooting in Las Vegas. Though both jurisdictions investigated a possible connection between Orlando and the fateful shooting on the Las Vegas strip they were unable to link him directly to the crime, and no criminal charges were ever filed. A year later Afeni Shakur, Tupac’s mother, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Orlando Anderson in response to a lawsuit Orlando filed against Suge Knight, Tupac’s estate and others in the Death Row organization. Orlando’s lawsuit was in regards to injuries resulting from the scuffle that evening at the MGM Grand – he claimed to have suffered both emotional and physical pain and that he was beaten badly during the altercation. Afeni Shakur’s lawsuit was filed just four days after Orlando’s lawsuit was filed and the Associated Press reported in 2000 that Tupac’s estate and Orlando’s estate settled the competing lawsuits hours before Orlando Anderson died. His lawyer offered a dollar figure attached to the settlement which he claimed would have netted Orlando $78,000. In the aforementioned VIBE interview with Sanyika Shakur, (a.k.a. “Monster” Kody Scott), author of Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member, and in his first remarks to the media, Orlando Anderson professed to being a fan and an admirer of Tupac and his music, even after the fight at the MGM and the media attention afterwards. He said he was cleared by Las Vegas police after two days of questioning. The interviewer also remarked on the striking physical resemblance between him and Tupac. On May 29, 1998, Orlando Anderson and associates, Michael Stone and Jerry Stone were involved in a shootout outside of Cigs Record Store in Compton, California. They later died at Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital (formerly King/Drew Medical Center) in L.A., California. To date, no one has been charged with Anderson’s murder. In October of 2011, former LAPD detective Greg Kading, who was once the lead investigator in the murder of Christopher “Biggie Smalls” Wallace, came out with a book which alleges that Sean “Diddy” Combs commissioned Duane Keith “Keffe D” Davis to take out Tupac Shakur, along with Suge Knight, for $1 million. Duane Keith “Keffe D” Davis is the uncle of Orlando Anderson and detective Kading claims that Orlando WAS present in the vehicle which pulled up next to the BMW which Tupac was shot in.
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