The Death Of Tupac Shakur

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The death of Tupac Shakur. Many people have questions and their own theories and some are true and some are completely false. In this research paper I’m trying to break down everything I can as simply as I can for anyone to understand. Using information I’ve gathered from trusted online sources, I will give the whole story from start to finish. I will try my best to get the best and truest information so I can break down this mystery.
So, leading to all this craziness, it all started in Las Vegas. A fight broke out between the bloods and the crips prior to the shooting. People believe it was Tupac’s way of getting revenge of a robbery of a Death Row Records associate prior to any of this. After they jumped them, Tupac and Suge Knight left to go to a professional boxing match (Hawksley, 2016).
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They were on their way to an after party at Club 662. They were sitting at the light in a BMW 750, waiting for it to change so they can keep driving. When out of nowhere, a white Cadillac pulled up next to them and fired 14 rounds into the side of the BMW 750 (Garofalo, 2016).
Tupac was hit 6 times out of the 14 shots, with one of the bullets hitting his hand, , one in his pelvis, two into his chest, and one puncturing his lung. The white Cadillac drove away instantly, and still to this day no one knows who it was in the white Cadillac. He spent 6 days in the hospital before it was announced he was

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