Murder of Tupac Shakur
The September 7, 1996 drive-by shooting that killed Tupac six days later.
On September 7, 1996, at 11:15 p.m., Tupac Shakur, then 25, was shot in a drive-by shooting in Paradise, Nevada, while the car carrying him was stopped at a red light at East Flamingo Road and Koval Lane. He was struck by four rounds from a .40-caliber Glock 22, two in the chest, one in the arm and one in the thigh, and died from his injuries six days later.
Quick Facts
- Location
- Paradise, Nevada, U.S.
- Target
- Tupac Shakur
- Date
- 7 September 1996
- Time
- 11:15 p.m.
- Weapon
- .40 caliber Glock 22 semi-automatic pistol
- Perpetrator
- Duane Davis (orchestrator)
- Motive
- Revenge
- Accused
- Orlando Anderson (suspected shooter; never charged)
Lore & Background
The driver, Death Row Records head Suge Knight, was grazed by a bullet. Orlando Anderson, a Crips member, was suspected for years but denied involvement and was never charged; he was killed in an unrelated gang shooting in 1998.
Reader's Guide
In the 2018 USA Network documentary Unsolved, Duane "Keffe D" Davis, a South Side Compton Crips leader and Anderson's uncle, said that he, Terrence "T-Brown" Brown, Anderson and DeAndrae "Dre" Smith were in the Cadillac used in the shooting. Davis was indicted by a grand jury and arrested on September 29, 2023, for first-degree murder, and was found guilty on August 31, 2026.
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