They were pulled over just a short distance from the MGM Grand, where their evening had begun. After arriving on the scene, police and paramedics took Knight and Shakur to the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada. They were again pulled over by the Bike Patrol, who alerted paramedics through radio. ĭespite Knight's injuries, and his vehicle having a flat tire, he was able to drive Shakur and himself a mile from the site, to Las Vegas Boulevard and Harmon Avenue. Yaki Kadafi was riding in the car behind Shakur with bodyguards at the time of the shooting, and along with members of the Death Row entourage, refused to cooperate with police. Alexander reported in his documentary, Before I Wake, that shortly after the assault, one of the convoy's cars followed the assailant but he never heard from the occupants. īodyguard Frank Alexander stated that when he was about to ride along with Shakur in Knight's car, Shakur asked him to drive Jones's car instead, in case they needed additional vehicles from Club 662 back to their hotel. Knight was hit in the head by fragmentation. One of the bullets went into Shakur's right lung. Shakur was hit four times – twice in the chest, once in the arm, once in the thigh. The shooter, seated at the back of the Cadillac, rolled down the window and rapidly fired gunshots from a. (PDT), a white, four-door, late-model Cadillac pulled up to Knight's right side. Shakur, who was talking through the window of his brand new 1996 BMW 750iL sedan, exchanged words with the two women, and invited them to go to Club 662. (PDT), while they were stopped at a red light at the intersection of East Flamingo Road and Koval Lane in front of the Maxim Hotel, a vehicle occupied by two women pulled up on their left side. The party was released a few minutes later without being cited. The plates were found in the trunk of Knight's car.
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( PDT), Shakur and Knight were halted on Las Vegas Boulevard by officers from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Bike Patrol for playing the car stereo too loudly and not having license plates. Shakur left with Knight after changing clothes. Shakur disclosed to girlfriend Kidada Jones his involvement in the Anderson fight, previously having promised to return to her after entering the MGM Grand and having her stay in a vehicle. Īfter the brawl, Shakur went with Knight to Club 662 (since closed), which was owned by Knight. The fight, which was captured on the MGM Grand's video surveillance, was broken up by hotel security.
Shakur and Knight's entourage assisted in assaulting Anderson. Shakur asked Anderson if he was from the "South" (Southside Crips) and punched him in the face, knocking him to the ground. Lane told Shakur, who in turn attacked Anderson in the lobby. Įarlier that year, in May 1996, Anderson and a group of Southside Crips attempted to rob Lane in a Foot Locker store. Pirus gang based in Compton, California, spotted Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson, from the rival Southside Crips gang, in the MGM Grand lobby. After leaving the match, one of Knight's associates, Travon "Tray" Lane, a member of the M.O.B. Mike Tyson boxing match with Marion "Suge" Knight, the head of Death Row Records, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Tupac Shakur attended the Bruce Seldon vs.