2Pac’s stepbrother and Thug Life rapper Mopreme Shakur stopped by Piers Morgan Uncensored on Friday (October 11) to discuss Diddy’s possible involvement in the legendary rapper’s death. As previously reported, 2Pac’s family has hired high-powered attorney Alex Spiro to investigate the Bad Boy records mogul’s potential ties to the 1996 shooting.
During their conversation, Shakur said he wouldn’t necessarily be surprised if it turned out Diddy was indeed involved in 2Pac’s murder.
Asked if he thought Diddy was involved in the murder, Shakur said: “It’s very possible – it seems so.” “Today, 27 years later, the theories involving him are at the top of the list.”
Morgan recalled that in 2008, after the Los Angeles Times reported that Diddy’s associates were behind the infamous 1994 shooting at New York City’s Quad Studios, which resulted in 2Pac being hospitalized, Diddy called Mopreme Shakur to deny Has anything to do with 2Pac’s death. A few weeks after the article was published, The New York Times retracted the article after deeming its reporting untrustworthy.
On September 7, 1996, 2Pac was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas. He had just finished a Mike Tyson boxing match at the MGM Grand when a white Cadillac pulled up next to his car. An unknown gunman, believed to be Orlando Anderson, opened fire, hitting 2Pac multiple times. He was rushed to hospital and placed on life support, but died from his injuries six days later at the age of 25.
Anderson’s uncle, Duane “Keefe D” Davis, has repeatedly claimed that he was in the car when the shooting occurred. Nearly 30 years after 2Pac was murdered, Davis was arrested in connection with the shooting and is currently awaiting trial. As for Diddy, he’s long been suspected to be involved in some way, as his fellow artist Biggie feuded with 2Pac as the East-West rap rivalry heated up. Less than a year later, Biggie suffered a similar fate while visiting Los Angeles.
According to a detective who testified in the case, Keef D claimed that former Death Row CEO Suge Knight, who was driving the car in which 2Pac was shot and killed, told PEOPLE that Diddy “was, if not directly, Indirectly responsible for the murder of his close friend.” “
In July, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department told People magazine that “Sean Combs was never considered a suspect in the Tupac Shakur homicide investigation.” Investigators also told TMZ , “Did was never a suspect in the 2Pac murder investigation and remains that today.”
Diddy was arrested on September 16 on three RICO charges: racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation for prostitution. After being denied bail multiple times, he attended a status conference hearing at a Manhattan courthouse on Thursday (October 10), where the judge decided to keep him in custody. His trial is scheduled for May 5.
