Post addresses Tupac Shakur shooting in N.Y. in 1994
NEW YORK -- City police have begun an investigation into an online posting supposedly from a felon who claims to have shot and robbed slain rapper Tupac Shakur. If police determine the post is legitimate, they will seek to interview the prisoner, police spokesman Paul Browne said Wednesday.
The claim was on AllHipHop.com. The person said he was paid $2,500 by another hip-hop mogul to rob Shakur outside a studio in Manhattan in 1994. Shakur was shot but recovered. He was killed two years later in an unsolved slaying in Las Vegas.
The post is laced with bitterness at the person the writer said hired him. The writer said that person has wrongly accused him of being an informant.
"I would like to clear up a few things, because the statute of limitations is over, and no one can be charged, and I'm just plain tired of listening to your lies," the writer said, adding he was allowed to keep jewelry he stole from Shakur.
"I still have as proof the chain we took in the robbery," he wrote.
Las Vegas police Lt. Lew Roberts said the development has no immediate effect on the department's investigation into Shakur's slaying.
The rapper was shot four times on Sept. 7, 1996, at the intersection of Flamingo Road and Koval Lane in a car driven by Death Row Records Chairman Marion "Suge" Knight. The two had attended the Mike Tyson-Bruce Seldon fight at the MGM Grand. Shakur, 25, died six days later at University Medical Center.
"We're not going to take a look at that angle," Roberts said. "We continue our investigation, and we believe our investigation is headed down the right path."
Review-Journal writer Antonio Planas contributed to this report.
