Editing Tupac Shakur (section)

==Murder and aftermath==
{{Main|Murder of Tupac Shakur}}{{See also|List of murdered hip-hop musicians}}<!-- Considering that there is an entire article about the murder, this section should be shortened -->
[[File:Las Vegas, Platinum Hotel 01.jpg|right|thumb|East [[Flamingo Road (Las Vegas)|Flamingo Road]] and Koval Lane, where the murder occurred]]
On the night of September 7, 1996, Shakur was in [[Paradise, Nevada]], to attend the [[Bruce Seldon vs. Mike Tyson]] boxing match with Suge Knight at the [[MGM Grand Las Vegas|MGM Grand]]. Afterward in the lobby one of Knight's associates spotted [[Orlando Anderson|Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson]], a [[South Side Compton Crips|Southside Compton]] [[Crips|Crip]], and told Shakur he had tried to rob them earlier that year. The hotel's [[Closed-circuit television|surveillance]] footage shows the ensuing assault on Anderson. Shakur soon stopped by his hotel room and then headed with Knight to his Death Row nightclub, Club 662, in a black [[BMW E38|BMW 750iL]] sedan, part of a larger convoy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://madeira.hccanet.org/project1/seiden1/death.html |title=September 1996 Shooting and Death |publisher=madeira.hccanet.org |access-date=July 28, 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726142741/http://madeira.hccanet.org/project1/seiden1/death.html |archive-date=July 26, 2011}}</ref>

At about 11&nbsp;p.m. on [[Las Vegas Boulevard]], bicycle-mounted police stopped the car for its loud music and lack of [[Vehicle registration plate|license plates]]. The plates were found in the trunk, and the car was released without a ticket.<ref name="Thugs Network">{{cite web|url=http://www.thugz-network.com/Tupac~Shakur~LV~Shooting.php |title=Tupac Shakur LV Shooting – |publisher=Thugz-network.com |date=September 7, 1996 |access-date=January 7, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207233314/http://www.thugz-network.com/Tupac~Shakur~LV~Shooting.php |archive-date=February 7, 2012}}</ref> At about 11:15&nbsp;p.m. at a stop light, a white, four-door, late-model [[Cadillac]] sedan pulled up to the passenger side and an occupant rapidly fired into the car. Shakur was struck four times: once in the arm, once in the thigh, and twice in the chest<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1434032/rapper-tupac-shakur-gunned-down/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303091049/http://www.mtv.com/news/1434032/rapper-tupac-shakur-gunned-down/|url-status=dead|title=Rapper Tupac Shakur Gunned Down|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|archive-date=March 3, 2016|website=MTV News}}</ref> with one bullet entering his right lung.<ref name="AEOM">{{cite web | url = http://www.alleyezonme.com/info/96shooting.html | title = Detailed information on the fatal shooting | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080514151716/http://www.alleyezonme.com/info/96shooting.html | archive-date=May 14, 2008 | work = AllEyezOnMe | access-date=October 11, 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Shards hit Knight's head. Frank Alexander, Shakur's bodyguard, was not in the car at the time. He would say he had been tasked to drive the car of Shakur's girlfriend, [[Kidada Jones]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.film.com/movies/tupac-shakur-before-i-wake/14704723 |title=Tupac Shakur: Before I Wake |publisher=film.com |access-date=July 28, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101001121034/http://www.film.com/movies/tupac-shakur-before-i-wake/14704723 |archive-date=October 1, 2010}}</ref>

Shakur was taken to the [[University Medical Center of Southern Nevada]] where he was heavily sedated and put on life support.<ref name="TSDCD">{{cite web|title=Tupac Shakur's Death Certificate Details|url=http://www.numberonestars.com/tupacshakur/tupacdeathcertificatedetails.htm|last1=Koch|first1=Ed|date=October 24, 1997|website=numberonestars|publisher=Las Vegas Sun|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120523233842/http://www.numberonestars.com/tupacshakur/tupacdeathcertificatedetails.htm|archive-date=May 23, 2012|access-date=December 31, 2016}}</ref> In the [[intensive-care unit]] on the afternoon of September 13, 1996, Shakur died from [[internal bleeding]].<ref name="TSDCD" /> He was pronounced dead at 4:03&nbsp;p.m.<ref name="TSDCD" /> The official causes of death are [[respiratory failure]] and [[cardiopulmonary arrest]] associated with multiple gunshot wounds.<ref name="TSDCD" /> Shakur's body was [[Cremation|cremated]] the next day. Members of the [[Outlawz]], recalling a line in his song "Black Jesus", (although uncertain of the artist's attempt at a literal meaning chose to interpret the request seriously) smoked some of his body's ashes after mixing them with [[Cannabis (drug)|marijuana]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/music/his-life-after-death/2006/09/12/1157826940955.html |title=Tupac's life after death |publisher=Smh.com.au |date=September 13, 2006 |access-date=January 7, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111225124226/http://www.smh.com.au/news/music/his-life-after-death/2006/09/12/1157826940955.html |archive-date=December 25, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=O'Neal |first1=Sean |title=Yes, the Outlawz smoked Tupac's ashes |url=https://www.avclub.com/yes-the-outlawz-smoked-tupacs-ashes-1798227224 |access-date=January 22, 2020 |work=[[The A.V. Club]] |date=August 30, 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020030705/https://news.avclub.com/yes-the-outlawz-smoked-tupacs-ashes-1798227224 |archive-date=October 20, 2017}}</ref>

In 2002, investigative journalist [[Chuck Philips]],<ref name="Philips: Who killed Tupac Shakur">{{Cite news|first=Chuck |last=Philips |title=Who Killed Tupac Shakur? |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-sep-06-fi-tupac6-story.html |access-date=July 15, 2012 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |location=Los Angeles, California|date=September 6, 2002 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121109234606/http://articles.latimes.com/2002/sep/06/business/fi-tupac6 |archive-date=November 9, 2012}}</ref><ref name="Who killed Tupac Shakur Part 2">{{Cite news|first=Chuck| last=Philips |title=Who killed Tupac Shakur?: Part 2 |url=http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-fi-tupac7sep07,0,6002100.story |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |location=Los Angeles, California|date=September 7, 2002 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130318222341/http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-fi-tupac7sep07%2C0%2C6002100.story |archive-date=March 18, 2013}}</ref> after a year of work, reported in the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' that Anderson, a Southside Compton Crip, having been attacked by Suge and Shakur's entourage at the MGM Hotel after the boxing match, had fired the fatal gunshots, but that [[Las Vegas Metropolitan Police]] had interviewed him only once, briefly, before his death in an unrelated shooting. Philips's 2002 article also alleges the involvement of [[The Notorious B.I.G.|Christopher "Notorious B.I.G." Wallace]] and several within New York City's criminal underworld. Both Anderson and Wallace denied involvement, while Wallace offered a confirmed alibi.<ref name="streetgangs1">{{cite web|url=http://www.streetgangs.com/topics/tupac/090602aliby.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120917144018/http://www.streetgangs.com/topics/tupac/090602aliby.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 17, 2012 |title=Notorious B.I.G.'s Family 'Outraged' By Tupac Article |publisher=Streetgangs.com |access-date=July 28, 2010}}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|date=March 2020}} Music journalist John Leland, in ''[[The New York Times]]'', called the evidence "inconclusive".<ref name="New York Times on New Revelations">{{cite news|first=John|last=Leland |title=New Theories Stir Speculation On Rap Deaths |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/07/arts/new-theories-stir-speculation-on-rap-deaths.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm |work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=September 29, 2013|date=October 7, 2002 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002202518/http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/07/arts/new-theories-stir-speculation-on-rap-deaths.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm |archive-date=October 2, 2013}}</ref>

In 2011, via the [[Freedom of Information Act (United States)|Freedom of Information Act]], the [[FBI]] released documents related to its investigation which described an [[extortion]] scheme by the [[Jewish Defense League]] (classified as "a [[Right-wing terrorist|right wing terrorist]] group" by the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]]<ref name="fbi">{{cite web |title=FBI — Terrorism 2000/2001 |url=https://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/terror |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121007083445/https://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/terror |archive-date=October 7, 2012 |access-date=August 28, 2017 |publisher=Fbi.gov }}</ref>) that included making [[death threats]] against Shakur and other rappers, but did not indicate a direct connection to his murder.<ref>{{cite web|title=Unsealed FBI Report on Tupac Shakur|work=FBI |url=http://vault.fbi.gov/Tupac%20Shakur%20/Tupac%20Shakur%20Part%201%20of%201/view|publisher=Vault.fbi.gov|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215062600/http://vault.fbi.gov/Tupac%20Shakur%20/Tupac%20Shakur%20Part%201%20of%201/view|archive-date=February 15, 2015|access-date=February 15, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=FBI files on Tupac Shakur murder show he received death threats from Jewish gang |url=http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/fbi-files-on-tupac-shakur-murder-show-he-received-death-threats-from-jewish-gang-1.355962 |agency=Haaretz Service|date=April 14, 2011 |website=[[Haaretz]] |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215152722/http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/fbi-files-on-tupac-shakur-murder-show-he-received-death-threats-from-jewish-gang-1.355962 |archive-date=February 15, 2015 |access-date=February 15, 2015}}</ref>

On July 18, 2023, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department executed a [[search warrant]] in connection with Shakur's murder.<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 18, 2023 |title=Search warrant executed in Tupac Shakur homicide case, Las Vegas police say |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/search-warrant-executed-tupac-shakur-murder-case-las-vegas-police-say-rcna94981 |access-date=July 18, 2023 |website=NBC News |language=en}}</ref>

On September 29, 2023, the [[Associated Press|AP]] reported that Las Vegas Metropolitan Police had arrested a suspect, [[Duane Davis (gangster)|Duane "Keefe D" Davis]], in Shakur's murder. Police had two months previously served a search warrant at his wife's home in the Las Vegas suburb of [[Henderson, Nevada|Henderson]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://apnews.com/article/tupac-shakur-killing-duane-keefe-davis-vegas-3f7050c2a68813d86a96b96fbb3f1d1a|title=Last living suspect in 1996 drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur indicted in Las Vegas on murder charge|date=September 29, 2023|website=AP News}}</ref> Davis pleaded not guilty on November 2, 2023, in [[Las Vegas]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/2023/11/02/1207092523/tupac-shakur-murder-suspect-pleaded-not-guilty|title=Suspect in Tupac Shakur's murder has pleaded not guilty|last=Tsioulcas|first=Anastasia|work=[[NPR]]|date=November 2, 2023|access-date=November 3, 2023}}</ref> As of February 2025, Davis' trial is set to start on February 9, 2026.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://apnews.com/article/tupac-shakur-killing-davis-trial-9a3a1201f9235c1eb11efbb7a70595d2|first=Ty|last=O'Neil|title=Nevada judge reschedules trial for the suspect in Tupac Shakur's 1996 killing for next year |agency=Associated Press News|date=February 18, 2025|accessdate=February 23, 2025}}</ref> As of January 2025, Davis remains in prison.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/tupac-murder-suspect-duane-davis-battery-charge/story?id=118183979|title=Tupac murder suspect faces new charge for allegedly fighting with inmate|first1=Sasha|last1=Pezenik|first2=Meredith|last2=Deliso|publisher=ABC News|date=January 28, 2025|accessdate=February 23, 2025}}</ref>