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Shakur flirted with a carful of women—unaware that a white Cadillac had quietly pulled up beside him. A hand emerged from the Cadillac.

In it was a semiautomatic pistol, aimed straight at Shakur. Las Vegas police have never made an arrest. Another persistent legend is that Shakur faked his own death to escape the pressures of stardom. A yearlong investigation by The Times reconstructed the crime and the events leading up to it.

Evidence gathered by the paper indicates:. Las Vegas police discounted Anderson as a suspect and interviewed him only once, briefly. He was later killed in an unrelated gang shooting. Notorious B. That killing also remains unsolved. Before they died, Notorious B. This account of what they and others did that night is based on police affidavits and court documents as well as interviews with investigators, witnesses to the crime and members of the Southside Crips who had never before discussed the killing outside the gang.

The year-old Shakur had helped elevate rap from a crude street fad to a complex art form, setting the stage for the current global hip-hop phenomenon. Tupac Amaru Shakur was born in into a family of black revolutionaries and named after a martyred Incan warrior.

Radical politics shaped his upbringing and the rebellious tone of much of his music. Pratt was freed after a judge ruled in that prosecutors concealed evidence favorable to the defendant.

His mother, Afeni Shakur, also a Black Panther, was charged with conspiring to blow up a block of New York department stores—and acquitted a month before the rapper was born. Shakur grew up in tough neighborhoods and homeless shelters in the Bronx, Harlem and Baltimore. He exhibited creative talent as a child and was admitted to the Baltimore School for the Arts, where he studied ballet, poetry, theater and literature.

In , his mother sent him to live with a family friend in the Bay Area to escape gang violence in Baltimore. Living in a tough neighborhood north of Oakland, he joined the rap group Digital Underground and signed a solo record deal in The lyrics were filled with vivid imagery of violence by and against police. A car thief who murdered a Texas state trooper said the lyrics incited him to kill.

Law enforcement groups and politicians denounced Shakur. During a concert in Michigan, he attacked a local rapper with a baseball bat and was sentenced to 10 days in jail. In Los Angeles, he was convicted of assaulting a music video producer.

In New York, a year-old fan accused Shakur and three of his friends of sexually assaulting her. While on trial in that case, the rapper was ambushed in a Manhattan recording studio, shot five times and robbed of his gold jewelry.

Shakur later said Notorious B. Knight offered to finance an appeal of his conviction if Shakur would sign a recording contract with Death Row. On Sept. The sold-out arena was jammed with high rollers: Wall Street tycoons, Hollywood celebrities, entertainment moguls. The fight also attracted an assortment of underworld figures: mobsters from Chicago, drug dealers from New York, street gangs from Los Angeles.

Shakur arrived around p. Shakur and Knight sat in the front row, smoking cigars, signing autographs and waving to fans. Tyson flattened his opponent so quickly that many patrons never made it to their seats. After congratulating Tyson, Shakur, Knight and a handful of bodyguards in silk suits headed for the exit. The Bloods and Crips have a year history of turf wars: beatings, drug heists, drive-by shootings.

The Crips dress in blue, the Bloods in red. Anderson had a string of arrests for robbery, assault and other offenses. Compton police suspected him in at least one gang killing. The Bloods had been fuming for weeks, waiting to exact their revenge. Now, unexpectedly, there was Anderson, standing before them. Before Anderson could answer, Shakur punched him. His bodyguards jumped in, pounding and kicking Anderson to the ground. Knight joined in too—just before security guards broke up the second melee, which was captured by a security camera.

Shakur and his entourage stomped triumphantly across the casino floor on their way out of the hotel. They walked half a block down the Strip to the Luxor hotel, where Death Row Records had booked more than a dozen rooms. The plan was to regroup later at a benefit concert for a youth boxing program featuring Shakur and other Death Row acts. The midnight concert was to be held at Club , a nightspot just opened by Death Row.

A bruised and shaken Anderson gathered himself off the floor in front of dozens of startled onlookers.

MGM security guards and Las Vegas police tried to persuade him to file a complaint against his assailants, but he declined. Anderson headed out to the Strip and crossed over a pedestrian bridge to the Excalibur Hotel, where he had checked in with his girlfriend. News of the beating swept through the gang underground.

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