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A Summary Of Tupac Shakur
On September 13, 1996, the charismatic and widely popular “gangsta” rapper Tupac Shakur died in a Las Vegas hospital of gunshot wounds six days after he suffered in a drive-by shooting.
On September 7, Tupac and Suge Knight attended the Mike Tyson- Bruce Seldon prizefight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. As Tupac Shakur were leaving the MGM Grand, he and his bodyguard got into an altercation with a young black man believed to be Orlando Anderson, a member of a rival gang, The Southside Crips. It was captured on the MGM’s video surveillance, and the fight was eventually broken up by the hotel securities. After the brawl, Tupac Shakur and Suge Knight decided to go to the Club 662. While Shakur and Knight were on their way, a white four-door sedan

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