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S3 Ep147: Crime Weekly News: Suspect Arrested In Tupac's Murder

Crime Weekly

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True Crime, Society & Culture, News

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🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

On September 7th, 1996, 25 year old rapper Tupac Shakur was fatally shot in a drive-by shooting that occurred when his car was stopped at a red light at East Flamingo Road and Koval Lane in Las Vegas, Nevada. For decades this case has gone unsolved, but this week the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department arrested a suspect in connection with the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur.

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, welcome back to Crime Weekly News, I'm Derek Lvassar.

0:18.5

And I'm Stephanie Harlow.

0:20.0

And we're back here, really big story that just popped in the true crime space.

0:24.9

This is one that I think almost everyone is familiar with as far as when it occurred,

0:32.1

the mystery behind it, and I don't know about the recent news, but we're going to get

0:35.6

into it right now.

0:36.6

So on the September 7th, 1996, 25-year-old rapper Tupac Shakur was fatally shot and

0:41.6

drive-by shooting that occurred when his car was stopped at a red light at East Flamingo

0:45.8

Road and Kovalaine in Las Vegas, Nevada.

0:48.7

For decades, this case has gone unsolved, but this week, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police

0:52.6

Department arrested a suspect in connection with the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur.

0:58.5

So before you get into it, Stephanie, because obviously, there's a lot of details about

1:02.0

this case.

1:03.0

I think most people are familiar with this investigation, not only because of how famous Tupac was before

1:09.3

his death, but also there's been a lot of people throughout the years who's come up as potential

1:15.8

suspects.

1:16.8

There's been people who have said they pretty much knew who did this, but it was a matter

1:21.3

of having enough to file charges against them, and then you have to talk about Biggie

1:26.0

Smalls as well.

1:27.0

They thought maybe there was a connection to that because obviously, for people who aren't

1:30.7

familiar with it, Tupac and Biggie, they were definitely both very super talented, and

1:39.0

they had these reputations to protect, and ultimately, they were both kind of popping

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