Tupac: 1994 New
York Shooting
November 30th 1994
would be a significant
date in Tupac's life,
on this day Tupac
would be involved
in a shooting which
Tupac was unlucky
to escape from without
near fatal implications.
It was 12:20 am, Tupac
and three of his entourage
including "Stretch"
(of the Live Squad)
who was a close friend
and his manager Freddie
Moore were approached
in a recording studio
in Times Square, Tupac
was shot 5 times.
The incident was labeled
by mainly police and
the media as a robbery
in which Tupac went
for his gun which
resulted in the shots
being fired at him. |
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| Outside the
Scene of the
shooting, police
officers are
present |
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| Fellow Rap artists
Notorious BIG and
Sean ‘Puffy’
Combs were a few floors
above where this incident
took place and this
is what fueled Tupac's
accusations that Biggie
was involved in the
shooting. The attackers
stole around 40,000
dollars worth of jewelry,
Freddie Moore was
hit once in the shooting
and gave chase to
the attackers only
to collapse in the
building next door.
Tupac took the lift
upstairs where he
confronted Biggie
and Puffy, in an atmosphere
as he described as
‘Strange’
nobody stood up to
help Tupac but rather
stared in disbelief
almost shocked that
Tupac was still alive. |
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| Notorious
BIG who was
present at the
time of the
shooting is
seen above leaving
the scene. |
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| Tupac was surprised
at the attack and
always thought that
the incident was a
set up, however the
police seen this as
a standard robbery
and the victim could
have been anybody
who was unlucky enough
to be approached by
the attackers at that
time. But Tupac was
convinced it wasn't
as straight forward
as a robbery and this
became the birth of
the beef between Tupac
and Biggie. |
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| Tupac famously
flips the bird
to the camera
man while being
assisted into
an ambulance. |
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