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Zone 7 with Sheryl McCollum

The Killing of Tupac Shakur with Cathy Scott

Zone 7 with Sheryl McCollum

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True Crime

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

On Sept. 7th, 1996, Tupac Shakur, age 25, was shot in a drive-by after leaving a boxing match at the MGM Grand on the Las Vegas strip.

He was sitting in a black BMW sedan with Suge Knight, the head of his record label, when a white Cadillac pulled up alongside and a gunman opened fire, striking Tupac multiple times.

In this episode of Zone 7, Crime Scene Investigator, Sheryl McCollum, talks with true crime author Cathy Scott about the unsolved 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur. They discuss the shooting, key figures, timeline of events, and new developments in the cold case investigation.

Show Notes:

  • [0:00] Welcome back to Zone 7 with Crime Scene Investigator, Sheryl McCollum.  
  • [1:50] Sheryl introduces guest, Cathy Scott, to the listeners 
  • [3:25] Cathy Scott's Background
  • [6:50] Question: When were you first aware of the shooting in 1994?
  • [7:00] Details on the 1994 shooting of Tupac in New York 
  • [9:50] Tupac Shooting in Las Vegas on September 7th, 1996
  • [12:20] Question: How is this murder not captured on film?
  • [17:25] The relationship of Keefe D and Orlando Anderson
  • [19:36] Biggie Smalls Murder in 1997
  • [24:00] Suspects Identified
  • [34:17] “I miss my son every day a little bit more, but I thank God every day for every second he was here.” -A.S
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Sheryl “Mac” McCollum is an Emmy Award winning CSI, a writer for CrimeOnLine, Forensic and Crime Scene Expert for Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, and a CSI for a metro Atlanta Police Department. She is the co-author of the textbook., Cold Case: Pathways to Justice. Sheryl is also the founder and director of the Cold Case Investigative Research Institute, a collaboration between universities and colleges that brings researchers, practitioners, students and the criminal justice community together to advance techniques in solving cold cases and assist families and law enforcement with solvability factors for unsolved homicides, missing persons, and kidnapping cases.  

You can connect and learn more about Sheryl’s work by visiting the CCIRI website https://coldcasecrimes.org

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0:00.0

When my daughter Caroline was three, she started ballet lessons.

0:13.0

She loved it.

0:15.0

She was also pretty good at it.

0:18.0

And eventually, she got a roll for the Nutcracker. And honey, she practiced

0:24.1

every day. She would sometimes make everybody in the family play a different role so that she

0:30.0

could do her part over and over. As we got closer to the big performance, she began to realize

0:36.8

this wasn't going to be at her studio.

0:39.5

She was going somewhere else on a stage in front of a bunch of people.

0:44.7

She was a little shy.

0:46.6

So one thing that happened is she was like, I just don't know.

0:50.7

That's a lot of people and I don't want to be on that stage kind of thing.

0:54.0

Well, her brother,

0:54.9

Huck, said, hey, maybe I can be one of the soldiers and I can be on stage with you and then

1:00.4

you won't be afraid. So Huck tried out to be one of the soldiers and he was picked to be the

1:06.1

soldier that rolled the cannon out and fired it. So Caroline was thrilled that she was going to have her safety net with her.

1:15.3

And Huck, of course, was thrilled because he and his words got to blow something up.

1:19.3

Huck would sometimes get a little bit of ribbon from friends

1:23.4

because he stayed in the nutcracker with her for several years.

1:27.3

And as he got a little bit older, he would tell the boys that were giving him a little bit of the business,

1:31.9

he'd say, look, it's me and 30 girls.

1:35.3

And they're all backstage changing costumes.

1:38.5

And then he would say, and you know what?

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