Tupac Amaru Shakar was one of the greatest rappers of the 90s. He expressed himself through his music in a way that inspired so many people. Unfortunately, on September 7, 1996, he was shot four times in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas. He was rushed to the hospital and put in a medically induced coma, but sadly passed away a couple days later, on September 13, 1996.
A couple months before this tragedy, Tupac got into a fight with a member of the South Side Compton Crips gang for attempting to rob a guy named Trevon Lane, a member of the M.O.B. Pirus gang. Tupac was not a part of the Pirus gang but was heavily affiliated with them.
There were many assumptions as to why Tupac was murdered. One of the main reasons authorities thought he was killed was because he attacked a member of the Crips gang, but they were never really sure. They didn’t make an arrest until September 29, 2023, almost thirty years later. A man by the name of Duane Keith Davis, a former member of the Crips gang, was found to have a connection to Tupac’s murder after many years of him saying that he was at the scene of the murder. He was charged with first-degree murder and will most likely be in prison for more than 20 years.