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On Friday, September 13, 1996, the successful rapper and actor Tupac Shakur died at a Las Vegas hospital. Tupac died of gunshot wounds. He was shot on the night of Saturday, September 7th after watching a boxing match between Mike Tyson and Bruce Seldon. After the match, he went 4 miles north to his friend and Death Row producer Marion "Suge" Knight's house. When he arrived, the two headed to a nightclub in a black BMW. The nightclub they were going to was to be the place where they were going to celebrate the Tyson fight win with fellow rapper Run DMC. But they never made it to the nightclub, when a white 1996 Cadillac pulled up to their car and fired 14 bullets into their BMW. 2Pac was hit 4 times-twice in the chest, once in the shoulder and once in the right thigh. Suge was "grazed" once in the head. Suge still had some power left in him, so he swerved the car around, made a perfect U turn, and fled. One minute later they were pulled over by the cops. The cops opened the door and saw what happened. They immediately radioed for an ambulance. When they arrived at the hospital, 2Pac was in serious condition and Suge was released from the hospital the next day. Later 2Pac had to go into surgery and have a lung transplant. He remained in critical condition for a few days, until Friday when he died. Police are still looking for suspects of the shooting. A lot of people think it may have been Christopher Wallace (The Notorious B.I.G) who fired at the BMW, because of his past feuds with 2Pac. 2Pac and Biggie always argued about which coast is better, East or West, and 2Pac also claims to have slept with Biggie's wife. So there's no love lost between them. Some also think it may have been Sean Puffy Combs, since Puffy and Suge have their differences. Puffy's East coast rap label Bad Boy Entertainment always got into fight with Suge's West coast label Death Row Records. Others think it was just a gang-related drive by shootin.
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