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00:00:34Tupac Shakur was more than a rap or a hip hop musician
00:00:37He was a poet, teacher, activist, movie star
00:00:41And yes, a great lyricist
00:00:43Even today countless acts in hip hop try to imitate his style
00:00:47The Guinness Book of World Records recognizes him as the best-selling hip hop artist
00:00:52With over 75 million albums sold worldwide
00:00:55Including over 44.5 million sales in the United States alone
00:00:59Love him or not, Tupac Shakur was one of the greatest artists of the mid-1990s era
00:01:05Something else important concerning Tupac was the way he died
00:01:09He was shot to death in Las Vegas
00:01:11And to this day, there have been no charges filed in relation to his death
00:01:16His death remains one of the most notorious unsolved murders of the last 20 years
00:01:21In 10 years, the Las Vegas police have claimed no new leads
00:01:25And consider the case to be ongoing
00:01:28So the public has picked up the slack
00:01:30Numerous stories have been printed
00:01:32Theories on who was to blame and why
00:01:35And with 10 years to grow and gain in complexity
00:01:38As many rumors do
00:01:40These theories have become the stuff of legend
00:01:54This procedure many drugs that have been made
00:01:55The cameras and orindung c besoin is found
00:01:55So those that are just condemned
00:01:56And not only things you're shot to describe
00:01:56You're not alone
00:01:58Completely Twisting
00:01:58But one thing that you're saying
00:02:01Like how If someone was important
00:02:02You're from between
00:02:03Nothing but it ain't
00:02:03The writing there
00:02:05It's too much
00:02:06It's the plan
00:02:06Believe
00:02:07You're about toodle
00:02:08You're about to believe
00:02:12Kris
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00:04:44Mike Allen has led one of the only successful prosecutions against the Roman Catholic Church for the molestation of children
00:04:51by priests.
00:07:52That was a random opportunity. They happened to be there and that's how it worked out.
00:07:57And just coincidentally, some gunman sticks his arm out of a white Cadillac and shoots the biggest rapper in America.
00:08:06Why didn't they shoot anybody else?
00:08:08Don Erath, retired LAPD investigator, lives not far from the West Valley Division of the LAPD,
00:08:14where the first hints of the notorious LAPD Rampart scandal started.
00:08:18Erath was first in the LAPD to be awarded the Los Angeles Police Department's Distinguished Service Award Medal.
00:08:25I see this as a typical assassination.
00:08:30If we have a homicide and we know that it was something that was planned,
00:08:34we're going to start interviewing people, you know, whether it's weeks, months, or years prior,
00:08:38basically whatever it takes to find the inception of that plan.
00:08:40Whose idea was it to kill this person?
00:08:42Why did they want them dead?
00:08:43And when did they start talking about it?
00:08:45Background information would be garnered, would be gathered by the lead investigator and by those helping him
00:08:52as to establish a motive, as to establish possible suspects.
00:08:57But in this situation, because the players were a little bit more notorious, were a little bit more known,
00:09:04the background should have already have been known.
00:09:07Chuck Knight was captain of the football team, and he got in trouble a little bit while he was here.
00:09:12He had an arrest record.
00:09:14He lived here for a few years and liked the town and came back and bought a place.
00:09:20It's the summer of 1996.
00:09:22All Eyes on Me has reached quintuple platinum status.
00:09:26Tupac gets to see his first number one single.
00:09:29His next album, to be released in November of 96, is called Machiavelli, or The Seven Day Theory.
00:09:35It's recorded in a record seven days.
00:09:38Tupac was considered by industry leaders to be at the top of his recording game.
00:09:43And with over 120 unreleased master tapes, who could argue?
00:09:48The first time it was made aware to me that there was a problem with Tupac in death row
00:09:56was on the set of Gridlock.
00:10:00Yasmeen, who was Yak Fuller's mom, was Tupac's assistant.
00:10:05And she had called me that evening and said,
00:10:10I'm going to come down to the set.
00:10:11I need to talk to you and Kevin Hackey about some things that's going on with Pac in death row.
00:10:17She didn't go into any great details about anything.
00:10:19And she told us, basically, to step up our game and watch him.
00:10:25Pac was going to start his own record label, Machiavelli Records.
00:10:28And I don't know if it was going to be distributed through death row records
00:10:30or he was going to do it on his own.
00:10:32But it was a label that he was working on.
00:10:34And we was going to, Outlaws, we was going to sign with that label, Machiavelli Records.
00:10:38I got a call from Al Gittins.
00:10:40I was at home.
00:10:41I lived in Orange County.
00:10:43And Al Gittins says to me, hey, you need to get to the studio
00:10:48because Pac is trying to, you know, take masters out of the studio.
00:10:53And Suge has told us that no one is to take masters from the studio anymore.
00:10:58He called me specifically knowing that I was Pac's bodyguard,
00:11:01saying, hey, you need to get down here.
00:11:04You need to talk to him.
00:11:05You need to calm him down.
00:11:07He's cussing.
00:11:07He's going off.
00:11:08He's going crazy.
00:11:09Master Tapes, the lifeblood of the music industry.
00:11:13From these original recordings, copies can be made for distribution.
00:11:18Master Tapes are very important to an artist.
00:11:21Control of the Master Tapes means control of the revenue they generate.
00:11:26Tupac Shakur wanted his Master Tapes.
00:11:28If he had obtained them, it may have been trouble for death row records.
00:11:32Recent court documents from artists who have sued death row in the last few years
00:11:36speak of a trend of death row holding on to Master Tapes.
00:11:40Tupac knew what he needed if he were to break away.
00:11:43The problem for death row may have been that these tapes were mortgaged.
00:11:48We know that death row had money loaned to them from Interscope.
00:11:52If those tapes, whose value is in the hundreds of millions of dollars,
00:11:56were removed from death row,
00:11:58it may have led to a break in the relationship between death row at Interscope.
00:12:03Even if we consider the royalties to be earned,
00:12:06a secret worth lying for, consider this.
00:12:09At the time of his death, attorneys for Shakur's estate claim
00:12:13there was over $13 million owed to artists like Shakur for work already done.
00:12:19Not just the singer, but the technicians, board operators, musicians,
00:12:24all owed money, and death row had not paid them.
00:12:28It was before he went to New York that he was thinking about starting Machiavelli records.
00:12:33No promises made to be broken.
00:12:36I might just buy a car and go to jail.
00:12:37No, don't say that.
00:12:38Knight entrusted the protection of the artist
00:12:40to former and current police officers and fire department officials.
00:12:45Of course, not all of the police hired by Reggie Wright were model citizens.
00:12:49The arrests of David Mack and Rafael Perez showed a new level of corruption
00:12:54in the L.A. Police Department, and both were on death row's payroll.
00:12:59But not all of the bodyguards were corrupt,
00:13:02and surprisingly enough, not all of the bodyguards
00:13:05have been interviewed by Las Vegas police.
00:13:07I started working with right-way security in September of 1995.
00:13:14Yeah, I worked with right-way security, not with death row records,
00:13:17and right-way was employed by death row records.
00:13:2196 is when I came on, I believe.
00:13:23It was either late 95, November, December, or early 96.
00:13:27I started working for death row back in 1994,
00:13:30and later became a bodyguard.
00:13:33Michael Moore was my replacement for Pac that weekend
00:13:37at the MTV Awards in New York.
00:13:40I was mostly a fill-in when I was guarding, you know, with Tupac.
00:13:45Personally, I didn't like him.
00:13:47I was in the limo, me and Tupac, outlaw mortals.
00:13:51We were driving around in Harlem, and the radio came on with Snoop Dogg
00:13:57saying that he had no beef with New York, which sent Pac into a rage.
00:14:03And we immediately spun the limo around, and we went back to the hotel
00:14:07to confront Snoop.
00:14:09We couldn't find him, but we found Mr. Knight.
00:14:13Tupac was displeased about what had happened,
00:14:15and Mr. Knight was very upset,
00:14:18and they got to yelling at each other back and forth.
00:14:20They confronted each other, basically to a face-to-face.
00:14:23I did slide in between them and said,
00:14:25hey, you know, you can't do this while I'm here,
00:14:28or I am going to have to step out of the room.
00:14:30Normally, I am asked,
00:14:31and every situation that I can remember while working with death row,
00:14:34where there was altercations, fights,
00:14:36where some type of discipline was going to be passed out during death row,
00:14:40I'm usually asked to step outside the room.
00:14:42But on this occasion,
00:14:44I think Mr. Knight had me stay for the safety of Tupac.
00:14:48I mean, that's the reason I was there,
00:14:50because I think Mr. Knight, with me not being there,
00:14:52he would have put his hands on him.
00:14:54He was that upset.
00:14:55They're going to be a great witness,
00:14:56because most of people in that position,
00:14:59they've been trained in that area.
00:15:00They have knowledge of safety procedures to keep someone safe,
00:15:03and they have a lot of good gut feelings about what could go wrong.
00:15:07And Pac's words were,
00:15:09I'm going to cut out Machiavelli,
00:15:12and when I cut out Machiavelli,
00:15:13I'm the hell up out of here.
00:15:15You got your money,
00:15:16I don't want nothing else to do with death row,
00:15:18I'm out.
00:15:19That's how we left that day.
00:15:22There was all kinds of alleged baggage involved
00:15:27as far as Tupac wanting to leave death row records.
00:15:31And he was screaming Machiavelli at the top of his lungs.
00:15:34That bodyguard that was pulled off is primed to the investigation.
00:15:38Not only the reasons for them being pulled off,
00:15:42but what led up to them being pulled off,
00:15:45and what information days prior they were privy to.
00:15:51You don't discount that information.
00:15:54At the time in New York,
00:15:56I think we had just finished doing MTV,
00:15:59and he had to come back to L.A.,
00:16:02I think, to do a video.
00:16:04And he didn't want it to go
00:16:05because he was like uneasy about going.
00:16:07He said he didn't want it to go.
00:16:08Because he had told us
00:16:10that he was not going there with his words,
00:16:12them sellout niggas.
00:16:13I was told by another one of our security guards
00:16:19that was a bodyguard
00:16:21that he had escorted Pott to the airplane
00:16:24as they were leaving New York.
00:16:27And Tupac told him,
00:16:31specifically told him,
00:16:33that he was a dead man walking.
00:16:35The last thing he said to me prior to leaving
00:16:38was he's not going to be in Vegas.
00:16:41I don't have to worry about him showing up,
00:16:43and don't worry about it
00:16:45because he won't be there.
00:16:46He didn't feel like he didn't want to go to Vegas.
00:16:48I don't even think he wanted to do the video.
00:16:50I think Tupac wanted to leave,
00:16:52and I don't think Death Row wanted him to go.
00:16:56Tupac was to attend
00:16:57the Mike Tyson-Bruce Seldon fight.
00:16:59I arrived at Las Vegas the day before Pott did on a Friday.
00:17:03September 6, 1996.
00:17:06He did not want to go to Vegas.
00:17:08Matter of fact, he fought off going to Vegas
00:17:10all the way to the last second,
00:17:12and when I got there,
00:17:13I was surprised to see him there.
00:17:15We met at an attorney's house.
00:17:17George Kalesis.
00:17:20George Kalesis was the attorney for Club 662.
00:17:23Kalesis was a prominent attorney in Las Vegas,
00:17:26known for Clark County judges who owed him money.
00:17:30In fact, several cases that were represented by Kalesis' firm
00:17:34were awarded favorable decisions,
00:17:35and at no time did the judges make it known
00:17:38that they were in literal debt to Kalesis.
00:17:42And on the subject of not knowing,
00:17:44it was a common conception that Knight owned Club 662
00:17:48when he did not.
00:17:50Like many of the Death Row legends,
00:17:52this is also a lie.
00:17:53Reggie asked me to ride with him to the meeting.
00:17:58I was actually going to ride with Michael Moore.
00:18:00He began to tell me about how he was upset at Kevin Hackey,
00:18:06and that Kevin Hackey had my next tale to a, you know,
00:18:10cell phone radio that should have been given to me
00:18:13when I arrived in Vegas.
00:18:15It's huge.
00:18:16You know, one of the things you'll see throughout history,
00:18:18and even in a military assassination,
00:18:21is the fact that let's take out communications.
00:18:23The same is true in an assassination,
00:18:26in the elimination of a single person.
00:18:29Let's make sure that they can't call for help.
00:18:31Let's make sure that they can't communicate with each other.
00:18:33If they're in trouble,
00:18:34why would we want them to be able to tell anyone
00:18:36what's actually going on?
00:18:38Ask somebody Chinese, if you're watching this tape,
00:18:40don't just say two egg rolls to go with hot sauce.
00:18:46You know what this say?
00:18:48Niggas ain't Chinese.
00:18:49Chinese get Chinese letters like they've been somewhere and shit.
00:18:51You ain't never let the block, nigga.
00:18:52Let's isolate them, keep them away from their protection,
00:18:56take away their communication back to whoever can help them.
00:18:59Isolate that victim,
00:19:01you're going to have a more successful mission.
00:19:03One cannot ignore the ability to communicate.
00:19:07We're in an instant communication era,
00:19:09and for a detective to ignore the possibility is,
00:19:15in my mind, ridiculous.
00:19:17George Calisus called the meeting at the behest of Reggie Wright Jr.
00:19:22All of the bodyguards were there.
00:19:24Never before had we had a meeting at an attorney's office,
00:19:29or with an attorney even present.
00:19:31Reggie Wright told us not to carry any weapons.
00:19:36Never have they told me to leave my weapons,
00:19:39either in my room or my car.
00:19:41So they were asking us to guard Pac and Shook and everyone else completely unarmed.
00:19:47We had never been told to leave our weapons.
00:19:50For an attorney to do that, I don't know why.
00:19:54We had had a meeting at Club 662, a security meeting,
00:19:58because for security we had on, you know,
00:20:01any given weekend that we were going to be in Las Vegas
00:20:03with all of the artists and when they were going to be performing
00:20:05or we were going to be able to fight,
00:20:06there would be 20, 23, you know, security members from Right Way Security.
00:20:11So now I'm in a situation where I'm being asked to guard Pac without any weapons or a phone.
00:20:17Since I wasn't there to know what was said,
00:20:21I don't know what the reason was for it.
00:20:24If you cannot defend yourself, you're going to be an easier target for me.
00:20:27You know, if you're my intended victim and you carry a gun,
00:20:30I have to plan completely differently than if you did not.
00:20:34So if I can get you to be unaware of the danger,
00:20:36if I can get you not to carry the gun or have any personnel with you that are armed,
00:20:42you're that much of an easier victim and an easier hit.
00:20:45That's a great part of the plan if you could accomplish that to get rid of any firearms
00:20:49because as the hitter, as the shooter, as the planner, you're protecting yourself.
00:20:54It was a special meeting.
00:20:55He was called in to be at his office on a Saturday to meet with all of us.
00:21:00Why would I leave my weapons in a vehicle or in the hotel room
00:21:05and I'm personally guarding Pac in one of the most hottest places to be?
00:21:10And what that's going to make it is a body guarding incident
00:21:14where you would be, only thing you would have on you is your person.
00:21:17And Michael Moore made the, you know, biggest, uh, you know,
00:21:23who are all about the weapons.
00:21:25I informed Reggie that I wasn't taking my weapon off for no one.
00:21:28The gun, my gun did not belong to right wet.
00:21:31It was my personal gun and I was going to carry it and that's what I did.
00:21:36Metropolitan police in Las Vegas were on Suge Knight's payroll that night moonlighting.
00:21:41And I would think that those guys who were hired by Suge
00:21:45and were with him that night would have been interviewed by the police.
00:21:50But I, I mean, maybe they know something.
00:21:53Everywhere you went, there was like this tightness that nobody wanted to,
00:21:57it was almost like anybody was, people were afraid to talk about the case.
00:22:01I mean, there was a weird sort of ring around the investigation
00:22:05that was tough to penetrate.
00:22:08I don't own, and none of the other bodyguards own, the security company.
00:22:13So when you're given a, um, direct, directive to do something,
00:22:19you have to follow it.
00:22:21And if you don't, possibly, you could, you know, cost you your job.
00:22:26So if Reggie owns the security company and he tells us what we need to do,
00:22:30then we need to do it.
00:22:32I think, I think maybe Pac became a little bit bigger on security
00:22:35once he fell in love with Frank Alexander.
00:22:37If I tell, like, Frankie to call you and then...
00:22:40Frankie, is that what you just said?
00:22:42Yeah.
00:22:42Frankie, yeah, tell Frankie to call me.
00:22:45Frankie, you call me when she tells you to call me Frankie.
00:22:48Why, why, what's up?
00:22:49Frankie goes to Hollywood.
00:22:52Yo, Frankie.
00:22:54Frankie.
00:22:55Yo, Frankie.
00:22:56How do you record this for me?
00:22:58What?
00:22:59Y'all call him Frankie?
00:23:00Nah, we gonna call him Frankie.
00:23:01Only, only our family call us.
00:23:03Call me Elamica.
00:23:04What y'all call him?
00:23:05Frankie, now we call him Frankie.
00:23:08Yo, Frankie, we got him, y'all.
00:23:10Frankie Knuckles.
00:23:12Frankie Knuckles up in this movie.
00:23:15Frankie Knuckles.
00:23:15No, what y'all call him?
00:23:17For real, straight up.
00:23:18For real.
00:23:18Frank.
00:23:19What?
00:23:19Oh.
00:23:20But now the E sound real extra,
00:23:22because you know, Frank a little extra sexy in the evening.
00:23:25Just sexy plus some sleeves.
00:23:34Earlier that evening,
00:23:35after the meeting at the attorney's office,
00:23:39Reggie said, hey, Pac is back at the Lex store.
00:23:41I'm going to go drop you off, go meet up with him.
00:23:43So he dropped me off.
00:23:44I saw Pac and all the outlaws.
00:23:46I went over, you know, hugged him, greeted him,
00:23:47and everything, and, you know, Pac said,
00:23:50hey, Big Frank, how was your vacation, man?
00:23:52I was like, it's cool, man, you know.
00:23:53So he had been gambling.
00:23:55He was actually shooting craps at the Lex store.
00:23:57We had a dinner meeting, and thank God it's Friday's, I believe, in Las Vegas, prior to the fight starting,
00:24:08and I was asked, I was told that I'd be taken off of Tupac's jury.
00:24:14You put Tupac at risk when you remove one bodyguard and say, hey, Frank, you handle him.
00:24:20So for most of the day, all this went on, and Tupac did not have a clue that's what we
00:24:26were doing.
00:24:26I was a little upset that I was taken off of him, and I got into a little argument with
00:24:32Reggie Wright at lunch over it.
00:24:35He said, Mike, I'm putting Frank back on him, and I'm taking you back off.
00:24:39And I said, Reggie, that part doesn't make sense.
00:24:42Why not leave me and Frank on Tupac?
00:24:46And he said, Michael Moore, do what you're told.
00:24:49I'm going to put you at Club 662, and you're going to handle the security, along with Al Giddens at
00:24:55the club.
00:24:56And, you know, Pac is Pac.
00:24:57He said, hey, let's go.
00:24:59And we go, where are we going?
00:25:00He goes, we're going to go over to the MGM.
00:25:02And I'm like, well, are we going to get a cab, or how are we going to get over there?
00:25:06He goes, no, no, we're going to walk over there.
00:25:07There's plenty of times he was alone without a bodyguard.
00:25:09We walked in the malls without bodyguards.
00:25:11Pac was that type of guy, you know.
00:25:12He wasn't always relying on the bodyguard.
00:25:14He wasn't like that.
00:25:15I think the reason they removed me from Tupac is because I was one of the few people that wouldn't
00:25:21buy into not carrying your weapon.
00:25:24And during no part of that day did I take my weapon off.
00:25:28And Mr. Right knew that.
00:25:30So they removed me off Tupac so there wouldn't be a weapon there.
00:25:34So Michael Moore, myself, and all of the outlaws with Tupac walk from the Lexor to the MGM.
00:25:41During our conversation on the way back from the MGM Grand, I explained to Tupac that Mr. Right was taking
00:25:46me off of him earlier that day.
00:25:49He was a little upset.
00:25:51He made a couple phone calls.
00:25:53We get to the MGM.
00:25:54Again, he goes to a crap table.
00:25:56And the MGM was a little bit, you know, more crowded that evening while he was gambling.
00:26:02He was gambling.
00:26:03He was, you know, winning.
00:26:03He was doing good.
00:26:04And Tupac said to me, go over, call Reggie, and find out what time Suge wants to meet to go
00:26:13into the fight.
00:26:15Tupac asked me to go make the call.
00:26:17I didn't have a radio.
00:26:18I couldn't contact Reggie.
00:26:19So I had to go to a landline phone.
00:26:22So I go to call.
00:26:23As I went to call on a landline phone, I came back to the table.
00:26:29And they were all gone.
00:26:31During our conversation on the way back from the MGM Grand, I explained to Tupac that Mr. Right was taking
00:26:37me off of him earlier that day.
00:26:39And I walked him all the way to his room.
00:26:42So I'm walking all over the MGM looking for him before I could even realize he isn't even in the
00:26:48building.
00:26:48And I explained he's a real impatient person.
00:26:50I walked him to his room.
00:26:51And my understanding was he was supposed to wait there until other security got to him.
00:26:57I get back over to the Lexor, and I'm looking all around for him.
00:27:01I'm on his phone, calling, trying to find him.
00:27:06And Pac walks up behind me.
00:27:08I'm like, Pac, where you been, man?
00:27:11I'm looking all over for you guys over at the MGM.
00:27:14He's like, oh, we walked back over here.
00:27:16I was ready to go.
00:27:16So I went to my room, and that was actually the last.
00:27:19I didn't have no knowledge that he was downstairs in the lobby until Frank Alexander called me and said,
00:27:24Hey, Mike, why is Tupac down here?
00:27:27And I even believe on the phone, I explained to Frank, even then, I am not on Tupac.
00:27:33I kept trying to say that the only person that was assigned to Tupac at that time was Frank Alexander.
00:27:40We had an issue with our clothes.
00:27:42Me and Frank had on short pants that day.
00:27:44We needed to change our clothes to get in the right thing, the right clothes for the fight.
00:27:51But there were some problems there because with me not really being on Tupac,
00:27:57the person who really needed to change his clothes was Frank.
00:27:59So I called Michael Moore on the house phone and said,
00:28:03Hey, get back down here because Pac is getting ready to want to take off and everything,
00:28:08and he's upset about Reggie.
00:28:10Have you talked to Reggie?
00:28:11So we let Frank go change his clothes while I waited.
00:28:14Then Frank changed his clothes, came back and picked up on Pac, and then I went back to my room.
00:28:20To this day, I believe that Tupac was under the impression that I was going to be going to the
00:28:25MGM Grand with him.
00:28:27But that wasn't the case.
00:28:28When I went to my room, I knew in my heart I wasn't coming back because I had been instructed
00:28:33to go to Club 662,
00:28:36and that's what I did.
00:28:38He got a little upset because now that I think back on it, he said he's paying for this shit
00:28:43and that he is telling us where we're going.
00:28:47I remember him saying that real loud that day in the lobby, that I'm paying for you, you go where
00:28:52I say go.
00:28:53And then I said, Frank, you need to make a phone call to Reggie.
00:28:57And Pac said, Michael, come over to the MGM and meet us over there.
00:29:04Tupac even called Reggie and had Frank get in touch with Reggie to find out where Michael Moore was at.
00:29:11So the problem was festering, and I knew something wasn't right.
00:29:15So when I went to my hotel room, I told Tim Williams, something is not right here, Tim.
00:29:21What we have to do is find out what's going on.
00:29:23So I said, let me go downstairs, and I'll change clothes, and I'll work with Tupac until Reggie says something.
00:29:31Tim said, Mike, don't do it.
00:29:33He goes, you're going to piss Reggie off?
00:29:35Don't do it.
00:29:36I go, Tim, Frank's going to need some help.
00:29:38He said, don't do it.
00:29:40Just get dressed and go to the club.
00:29:46I think Frank had no idea that I received them for phone calls prior to Tupac getting killed.
00:29:54While we were at the MGM out in the arena right there waiting to go in, I had their regular
00:30:01security escort us behind the line.
00:30:04Three of the phone calls came from Mr. Wright, and one phone call came from Al Giddens, who was also
00:30:10head of 662 Security.
00:30:12And I asked him, I go, Al, why are you calling my room at 10 after 8 if I'm not
00:30:20supposed to be there at 10?
00:30:21And his answer was, Reggie just called me and told me to call you.
00:30:25I said, well, don't call me no more.
00:30:27And then after that, all my phone calls came directly from Mr. Wright.
00:30:31You know, people saw Pac, they were, Tupac, that's Tupac, you know.
00:30:34And we're waiting for Michael Moore to show up.
00:30:36At that point in time, I had lost all communication with Michael Moore.
00:30:39I didn't know whether he was coming, what was going on, or anything.
00:30:42I think there was a reason for that.
00:30:44And I think the reason was making sure that no one carried a weapon.
00:30:49Pac was real antsy.
00:30:51He was like, where's Shilgate?
00:30:53Where's Shilgate?
00:30:53Where comes Shilgate here?
00:30:54You know, he's looking at the time and stuff, and he's getting closer for the fight to start at this
00:30:59point.
00:30:59People are going in.
00:31:00Well, we got down to the MGM, right in the front of it, right where the fight was at.
00:31:05And I was getting ready to get out of the car.
00:31:07I rode with Tim Williams over there.
00:31:08He goes, Mike, what are you doing?
00:31:09I said, Tim, I should just get out.
00:31:11Because if Reggie yells at me, and I'm covering Tupac, how bad can that be?
00:31:15Well, at the last second, I decided to just stay in the car.
00:31:18I went to Club 662.
00:31:20Tupac and Alexander are alone in a crowd, with no radio or weapon.
00:31:26I think this needs to be let out.
00:31:28To me, that's the beginning of our downfall.
00:31:32Well, Shilgate got there with a couple of people that was with him, whoever it was that had the tickets.
00:31:40And we went in to the fight right as the national anthem was playing.
00:31:59Again, you know, when we talk about the shooters and everything else, you're going to talk about the defense of
00:32:03the shooter to escape after the hit.
00:32:04Now, that defense of that shooter doesn't take place just when the hit occurs.
00:32:09It takes place afterwards, too.
00:32:11And if I can shift blame to someone else, put someone else in a place where they look like they
00:32:16had motive, and they had opportunity to make this hit, and it takes the blame off the meat, that adds
00:32:21to my defense.
00:32:22In April of 1996, I got a phone call from Reggie one day, and he was telling me that Trevon,
00:32:32one of the homeboys that hung around the studios, one of Shug's guys, is what I call him, got into
00:32:40an altercation in the Lakewood Mall in California.
00:32:43And it was at a footlocker store, and he went into this footlocker, Orlando Anderson was in there, and death
00:32:51row, people from death row, the artists and all of the homeboy securities, whatever you want to call them, they
00:33:01wore this death row emblem of the guy in the electric chair, everybody knows the emblem.
00:33:08Orlando Anderson went up to Trevon and snatched off his emblem, his chain, and they got into this fight in
00:33:15the Lakewood Mall, and they tore up this footlocker where the store that they were in.
00:33:21One thing led to another.
00:33:23Ironically, in September, Orlando Anderson is the gentleman that Tupac got into the altercation with at the MGM.
00:33:34Orlando Anderson is leaning up at a wall, watching people come out of the fight, and this is near the
00:33:40food court, and the bank of elevators is where this happened, and then you walk to the lobby, through the
00:33:47casino a bit, and then to the lobby.
00:33:48And it always struck me as, that whole thing struck me as odd.
00:33:56And they let him go.
00:33:58He did not have a ticket to the fight.
00:34:00He did tell people at one point, he told the police that he had a ticket, but he didn't have
00:34:05a ticket.
00:34:06He did not attend the fight.
00:34:08He's from Compton.
00:34:09He had no reason to be in Las Vegas.
00:34:12Trevon whispered into Tupac's ear right after we walked out of the Mike Tyson fight, and Tupac took off running.
00:34:22I took off running behind him, and the rest of the entourage ran behind us.
00:34:25Maybe that was a setup.
00:34:27I mean, he was standing there waiting, waiting for somebody, and then Tupac shows up, and they start exchanging words
00:34:34with his entourage and everybody else,
00:34:36and they start stomping and yelling and doing their silly things, but it was odd that, I keep saying odd,
00:34:43but the whole thing is odd.
00:34:44And that's where the altercation, the fight broke out between Tupac and Orlando Anderson.
00:34:51I think Orlando Anderson's, that beating doesn't make sense.
00:34:56I mean, he was kicked and stomped a little bit, and the police didn't do anything.
00:35:00They didn't even take him downstairs, the police didn't take, or security, take Orlando downstairs, you know, at the MGM
00:35:08to talk to him about that beating.
00:35:11He just said no, he didn't want to press charges, and they sent him on his merry way.
00:35:16Now, I never knew who Orlando Anderson was.
00:35:20It's just kind of, you know, funny, ironic, whatever you want to call it, that from April to September, why
00:35:27would Reggie have told me about Trevon getting into this fight at the Foot Locker in Lakewood Mall with Orlando
00:35:34Anderson?
00:35:35And here we are, you know, a few months later, Tupac gets into the same fight with Orlando Anderson at
00:35:43the MGM, and then everything just went from there.
00:35:45Detective Tim Brennan of the Compton Police Department was the first to bring Orlando Anderson's name to the front of
00:35:52the assassination.
00:35:53This affidavit, in support of a search warrant, specifies that Anderson was the likely shooter of Shakur.
00:36:01The shooting was in retaliation for the beating of Anderson at the MGM earlier that evening.
00:36:07Anderson's beating was, in turn, alleged payback for the Lakewood Mall fight that Reggie Wright told Alexander about sometime earlier.
00:36:14And then everything just went from there.
00:36:17Planned out. I'm sure there were variations, but, yeah, Orlando Anderson looks a little staged.
00:36:23It looks a little planned out.
00:36:26It all looks as if they were trying to find a killer they could point out afterward.
00:36:34Brennan testifies Trevon is the person making the clearest and first claim that Anderson was the shooter.
00:36:42Trevon is said to be telling people within hours of the shooting that Orlando Anderson is the one who shot
00:36:48Tupac.
00:36:49This is the same Trevon who had the fight with Anderson in Lakewood, and the same one who instigated the
00:36:55fight at the MGM.
00:36:56If Trevon's statement was to be believed by Brennan's affidavit, enough to justify the documentation of it, did Trevon actually
00:37:05see Anderson in the car?
00:37:07The only way for Trevon to have known that fact would have been to see the face of the shooter.
00:37:12So why wasn't he identified to police as an eyewitness?
00:37:17Whatever the case, in the face of the mounting physical evidence collected by Compton police, Anderson is not charged.
00:37:25Was Orlando Anderson a patsy?
00:37:28He can't tell us.
00:37:29He was killed two years later, claiming his innocence to the death.
00:37:34Later, it's learned that Trevon was in the car that pinned Tupac's car from the left side of the street,
00:37:40blocking any escape when the shooting occurred.
00:37:43They're setting someone else to take up the blame for their action.
00:37:46That's also a very ingenious part of the plan to be able to do that, is the fact that now
00:37:52not only can I take out my intended victim,
00:37:54but I can make it look like somebody else had the same motive and opportunity to do the same act.
00:37:59And why go to all that trouble to stage this kind of event?
00:38:03Certainly, Anderson could have been dealt with more discreetly.
00:38:06Knight went to prison over a beating, a parole violation.
00:38:09But in the poker game of crime, nine years beats life.
00:38:13It also plays towards setting up the final alibi and cover story.
00:38:24Once again, you know, we're going back to an element of the planning.
00:38:26Where are they going to be?
00:38:27Where are you going to plan your hit?
00:38:29Now, you're going to look for an optimum target.
00:38:31I mean, you're going to look for the perfect place.
00:38:33And you're going to make sure that that victim travels across that place.
00:38:37You know, you're not going to want it to be where there's just throngs of public or cars or where
00:38:41you can't get close or things such that.
00:38:43You're going to want it maybe to be a little bit more isolated.
00:38:45Or you're going to want it to be an exact place to give you maximum exposure for a shot.
00:38:50You're going to want them to be a target, not a hidden target, a target.
00:38:54And if you can get them to a spot or crossing a path where you already have people in place,
00:39:00you know, your plan is going to fall into place, so to speak.
00:39:02And you're going to have that shot availability to you.
00:39:05Keep in mind, where the actual shooting happened isn't as full of pedestrian traffic as it would be out on
00:39:13the strip.
00:39:14The shooting happened off the strip.
00:39:16A lot of people think it was right on the main drag, and it wasn't.
00:39:21And you don't have the foot traffic where this happened that you do where people cruise.
00:39:29I mean, the strip is going to be crazy, but it's actually stop and go.
00:39:34You can't go fast on the strip on a Saturday fight night.
00:39:38So you're going to hit the strip from the backside, coming up near Mandela Bay from the south end and
00:39:44driving up that way.
00:39:45You hang a ride on Koval, and boom, you're about out of hell and gone and off the radar.
00:39:51I mean, that street, actually, Koval Lane, is dark at night.
00:39:54You've got to know where they're at, where they're going to be, who they're going to be surrounded by.
00:39:58You're going to have to have a way to get that type of information.
00:40:02An innocent individual that comes in to protect someone, and he's totally set up.
00:40:07He's totally, his communications are denied, his weapons are denied.
00:40:10Frank was set up.
00:40:12We went to Suge Knight's home first.
00:40:14Suge changed clothes.
00:40:15After that, we're driving back from where he lived at in Green Valley in Las Vegas.
00:40:20We're going down Las Vegas Boulevard.
00:40:24Another crucial part of your planning is going to be whether or not your victim is aware that he's in
00:40:29danger.
00:40:30If your victim is aware that he's in danger, he's going to make sure that his defense perimeter is there,
00:40:36that his defense is in place.
00:40:37If he's not aware that he's in danger, his guard's going to be let down a little.
00:40:40As we're going down the strip, just before we got to Tropicana, a couple of bicycle cops stopped Suge.
00:40:46He opened up his trunk, and there was nothing in there.
00:40:49It was a brand new car.
00:40:50He got back in the car.
00:40:51We proceeded to go down to Flamingo.
00:40:53We turned right on Flamingo.
00:40:55As we turned right and were sitting at the light on Flamingo of Flamingo and Coval, the white Cadillac then
00:41:02pulled up, and the arm came out and fired the rounds from the back of the BMW into the side
00:41:08of the BMW, hitting Tupac.
00:41:10When looking at the diagram and considering that we have a stoplight, and we have an entourage, which is not
00:41:21good for security,
00:41:23I would say that if this car were not in the lead car, that would still give the middle car
00:41:31an avenue of escape.
00:41:33Then you have the car with the person in it, and then you have their backup.
00:41:39What also I see is this car in the left-hand turn lane, or to the left of the entourage.
00:41:48Obviously, there was talk about four young ladies in a car that were talked to.
00:41:53Again, they were evasive.
00:41:56They didn't want to say anything much at the time.
00:41:59This appears to be blocking the middle car from pulling over in case of emergency or case of accident.
00:42:07But I'll tell you what, this happens all the time in the Middle East.
00:42:11And this is typical of your assassinations in Colombia, your assassinations in some other countries,
00:42:21to where the car targeted is blocked in from going left,
00:42:26because the other car that pulls up to the right completes the quadrant, completes the silhouette of blocking the middle
00:42:36car in.
00:42:37There's no place for the middle car to go.
00:42:39The middle car is blocked in by the lead car, is blocked in by the car to the left,
00:42:44and is finally blocked in by the right car, which appears to be the shooter in this incident.
00:42:50When I saw the white Cadillac pulling up to Tupac and Shug,
00:42:56you know, I mean, it was no different than any other car that was going to come up to a
00:43:01red light and, you know, stop.
00:43:02The only thing different about the Cadillac pulling up is that I noticed that it was getting a little bit
00:43:07closer to the car.
00:43:09No alarm, because there was, you know, other cars pulling up to him and, you know,
00:43:14you know, the groupie kind of a situation.
00:43:17It's obvious that its intent is to block the middle car from going forward,
00:43:24this car from left, and then finally the shooter to the right.
00:43:28But it was sitting duck.
00:43:30Sitting duck.
00:43:31Sitting duck, sitting duck.
00:43:56El arma se salió, se fue a la BMW.
00:44:02Y nosotros, nosotros y los tres outlaws que estaban en el carro conmigo,
00:44:06nos estaban en awe.
00:44:10Y nos pareció como si todo estaba en motion.
00:44:13Quiero decir, como estoy aquí hablando de esto,
00:44:17mi memoria siempre me recuerda.
00:44:20Y la manera que la visión era en motion, incluso ahora mismo.
00:44:32Cuando estaba trabajando en 662,
00:44:34escuché algo sobre los Nextels que todos llevamos para seguridad.
00:44:38Y lo que escuché fue, ¡Gotta!
00:44:41Bueno, eso es para mí.
00:44:43La única teléfono que me conocí, creo que son de AT&T.
00:44:48Estos radios que estamos hablando,
00:44:50los Nextel teléfonos, los 2-Way radios,
00:44:52se han prácticamente comenzó a tocar.
00:44:55Porque, originalmente, todos los que teníamos eran los radios,
00:45:00solo el radio en sí mismo.
00:45:03Y, probablemente, cerca de la hora de llegar a las Vegas,
00:45:08a la hora de llegar a las Vegas,
00:45:09a la hora de llegar a los Pogues,
00:45:10yo diría que esos Nextel radios
00:45:13habían acabado en juego para la seguridad.
00:45:16Y, solo, es un guess,
00:45:19probablemente solo 4 o 5 de ellos.
00:45:21Pero, era suficiente para ir a la gente que debería tenerlos.
00:45:26La información de Nextel es news.
00:45:29La voz fue definitivamente una de nuestra seguridad
00:45:33que trabaja directamente para Mr. Knight.
00:45:36Michael Moore, la noche que Tupac fue shot,
00:45:39después de haber tomado de Tupac conmigo,
00:45:43fue regresando a Club 662.
00:45:45Quizás, la policía debería concentrar más en la defra,
00:45:49las Nextel de las billes,
00:45:51y otras cosas que podrían ayudarles a investigar más en profundidad.
00:45:57Yo diría definitivamente más en la defra,
00:45:59de que me diría más en la defra,
00:46:01de que me diría más en la defra,
00:46:02y eso es de lo que me hacía en Nueva York,
00:46:05lo que escuché Pogto,
00:46:07Suge Knight,
00:46:08y lo que escuché sobre la radio esa noche,
00:46:10después de la policía,
00:46:13se escucharon que Tupac y Suge han sido shotados.
00:46:17Entonces, Michael estaba con Reggie,
00:46:20y ellos vinieron al hospital juntos.
00:46:22Y Michael hablaba de escuchar algo sobre la radio.
00:46:27Bueno, él escucharía sobre la radio de Reggie,
00:46:30porque no hubiera tenido la radio esa noche.
00:46:32El comunicación,
00:46:33que me y Mr. Wright,
00:46:34se acercó en la vehículo,
00:46:36para ir a la hospital,
00:46:38alguien más vino a la radio y le dijo,
00:46:40hey, no decir nada sobre la radio.
00:46:43Esa comunicación,
00:46:44sea que sea obtenida,
00:46:45sea que sea o sea,
00:46:47o sea,
00:46:48tiene que ser reunido.
00:46:50Porque,
00:46:51¿cómo puedes decir una conspiración
00:46:53si no tienes los conspiradores?
00:46:57Y no tienes la comunicación
00:46:58entre los que realmente
00:47:01no tienes que saber la conspiración.
00:47:03Tienes que saber a timeline
00:47:05de la persona que es tu target.
00:47:07Tienes que saber
00:47:07dónde están,
00:47:08dónde están,
00:47:09dónde están,
00:47:09quiénes van a ser,
00:47:10y la segunda cosa es,
00:47:12siguiendo esa timeline
00:47:13de la información,
00:47:13tienes que tener que plan
00:47:15according a eso.
00:47:16Mr. Wright y yo
00:47:17estaba hablando
00:47:18de lo que sucedió,
00:47:19y yo he escuchado
00:47:21a alguien que decía,
00:47:23no decir eso
00:47:24sobre la radio,
00:47:24pero la persona
00:47:25que decía
00:47:26no hubo
00:47:27no hubo
00:47:27no hubo
00:47:27no hubo
00:47:29no hubo
00:47:29no hubo
00:47:32no hubo
00:47:38no hubo
00:47:49no hubo
00:47:51no hubo
00:47:54no hubo
00:47:56no hubo
00:47:58no hubo
00:47:58no hubo
00:48:08no hubo
00:48:19no hubo
00:48:20no hubo
00:48:22no hubo
00:48:23no hubo
00:48:24no hubo
00:48:24a la銀 MTV
00:48:24que la NXTALE
00:48:25radio
00:48:25se asistencia
00:48:26a la verdadera
00:48:26su una conversación
00:48:28y más
00:48:29la mensaje
00:48:30ahora
00:48:30es posible
00:48:31tal
00:48:31a la
00:48:32La conclusión es que alguien con el conocimiento de la kill se llamó directamente directamente.
00:48:38Cuando el carro se quedó, me salió de la carro y me salió al frente de la BMW.
00:48:45Cuando estaba acercando la BMW, cuando llegaba a la tronc, el carro hizo un turno.
00:48:50No hay manera que la carro estaba moviendo, porque con todos los rounds de la carro, ellos eran dead.
00:48:56Una de las otras elementos de plan, que es sometimes used y sometimes no, es cómo podemos cubrir el hit.
00:49:02Can we make this look like an accident, or can we make this look like a random act?
00:49:07Because the best thing an assassin can do is to make it look like it was a random act of
00:49:11violence,
00:49:12that it was not an assassination at all.
00:49:14When the car did a U-turn, the other cars that was with us in the entourage,
00:49:17the car that was in front of Shurik and the car that was next to Shurik, all did a U
00:49:21-turn.
00:49:22Two bike cops who were in the parking garage right above, on the second floor of the parking garage above,
00:49:27the shooting, hear bang, bang, bang, they jump on their bikes, you know, take their bikes downstairs and boom,
00:49:34they're on the scene immediately, so quickly that they're able to follow and then hit their little
00:49:39shoulder radios that, you know, there's been a shooting at Koval and Flamingo.
00:49:45Got back over to the Las Vegas Boulevard, turned left on Las Vegas Boulevard as he's jumping mediums,
00:49:52he's blowing his tires, you know, messed up his rims and all of that as the picture's shelf.
00:49:56With this crime scene tape being put around this car, and it happened so fast, like,
00:50:01I can't even believe how fast it was.
00:50:04This tape was up as myself and the outlaws and the other two guys, which was, you know, with Shurik,
00:50:10tried to go into the tape, the crime scene tape, we were told not to, and at that point in
00:50:18time,
00:50:18put us down on the curb, put us down in a prone position, and I said to the one cop
00:50:23that I was
00:50:24the bodyguard, and he allowed me to come in. When I got up under the tape, and Shurik was laying
00:50:30on the
00:50:30ground in a, you know, prone position, and I told the cop, I said, he's the CEO of the record
00:50:35label,
00:50:36and that's Tupac in the car. That's when Shurik, they let him up off the ground, and Shurik and I
00:50:40ran around to the passenger side of the car with the cop, and we were all trying to open the
00:50:46door,
00:50:46and the cop, I mean, Shurik said, it's my car, I know how to open the door, you know, whatever,
00:50:51so he opened the door, and that's when, you know, pulled Pac out of the car and laid him on
00:50:55the ground.
00:50:55You have the preliminary crime scene, which has been cordoned off, and usually your forensics are there by now,
00:51:03your paramedics are there by now, everyone is at the preliminary crime scene.
00:51:08And yet, both cops, two bicycle cops, not one of them stays at the scene. Both of them leave the
00:51:14scene.
00:51:15The victim's vehicle was two to three vehicles back from the intersection. The Cadillac pulled up
00:51:21immediately beside them, stopped, and opened fire. Where the car broke down, all of the cops were right
00:51:27there, and there was a lieutenant, and he walked over to me, and we were talking, and I said,
00:51:34I said, that's not the car. It was a white car over there already. It was like a Nissan or
00:51:38something
00:51:38like that, and he was saying that that was the car, and I said, that's not the car. I said,
00:51:43that's not
00:51:43the car. It was a white Cadillac, and he was telling me, you don't know what you're talking about. Shut
00:51:47up!
00:51:47And we are looking for a suspect vehicle, which was described as a white or off-white Cadillac, newer model
00:51:54Cadillac.
00:51:55And then another cop walked over to him and said something to him, and he just turned and walked away
00:52:00from me.
00:52:01It amazes me that when we have professional bodyguards, as part of this entourage, that they can't even
00:52:08give us an accurate description of the vehicle. Kevin Manning, from Las Vegas PD, he said that no one,
00:52:15no bodyguard could accurately give a description of the white Cadillac. Well, I am the one that said that there
00:52:22was a white Cadillac.
00:52:23So, right now it appears that the gunshots were fired from the suspect vehicle only, again,
00:52:29which is described as a white or light-colored newer Cadillac. Suspect vehicles that have left the
00:52:35scene at a high rate of speed that would draw attention to them. If there are vehicles noted by
00:52:42the witnesses, the preliminary officers and the sergeant, our supervisor on the scene, would issue an
00:52:51all-points bulletin describing the vehicle. There are helicopters available, and the police
00:52:58headquarters is downtown, which isn't very far. It's just a couple of miles away from where the
00:53:03shooting took place. They could have dispatched almost immediately, and I'm sure some were on call,
00:53:09almost immediately. If not, news cameras, you know, news crews could have been in the air.
00:53:14And, you know, our standards operating procedure or procedure that we follow is basically that. If
00:53:20we have a witness came forward and say, I saw this, it was this type of vehicle, the first thing
00:53:24we're
00:53:24going to do is get on the radio and start having every agency in the area look for that vehicle.
00:53:28Put out the word. This is what we're looking for. This is a vehicle of interest that could be
00:53:32considered armed and dangerous. Let's find this vehicle because that is a huge, huge piece of the
00:53:37puzzle that we need to put in place. It just didn't feel like a typical murder investigation. I mean,
00:53:44my God, the biggest man in rap, you know, was killed. And yet they were acting, you know,
00:53:51I hate to use this word, but it felt lackadaisical. This is the vehicle one. This was the last direction
00:53:57of travel that we were, that is known to us. They could have closed I-15. They could have, I
00:54:02mean,
00:54:02they'll close it for an accident, not even leave a, a small accident, not even leave a lane open for
00:54:08motorists. So it's not like they're worried about the motorists. They could have closed I-15. They
00:54:13could have closed the strip. They could have walled the place off. You had Nevada Highway Patrolmen on,
00:54:19you know, on, on extra duty. You had Metro Police on overtime working. It's a Tyson fight.
00:54:25And being intent on looking for that particular vehicle, on sitting on the side of the road,
00:54:29waiting for that vehicle to drive past them. But at the same time, you give the description,
00:54:33the direction of travel that you know of, you're gonna have many agencies start to look
00:54:37for that particular vehicle to cover those roadways.
00:54:45That state line, the Nevada Highway Patrol, has an office that's manned. And so all they had,
00:54:53would have to do is radio 30 to 40 minutes away. That's how long it would take to get to
00:54:58the state line.
00:54:59They could have roadblocked that thing so fast it wouldn't have been funny.
00:55:02Matt, I don't think the police really care, to be honest with you. I don't think nobody really cares.
00:55:06Las Vegas Metropolitan Police also has, um, a sub office at the airport. So the airport police,
00:55:17Metro Police, already on the scene at the airport, could have been on alert for,
00:55:23you know, uh, the shooter coming out of there too.
00:55:25Yeah. Well, there's some type of diversion tactic to take their, uh, attention away,
00:55:30to let them drop their guard for a moment, up into the point of how you're gonna get out there
00:55:34after the hit. Now, them looking for the Cadillac and doing the things that they should have done to
00:55:38find that Cadillac, obviously they weren't fast enough and didn't get, uh, you know, to finding it,
00:55:44because it was never found. Compton Police claimed to have identified this Cadillac as the shooter's
00:55:50vehicle. It was a rental car, the only white Cadillac rented in Los Angeles that weekend.
00:55:56Las Vegas Police claimed they never received that information.
00:56:08The protocol for the preliminary investigators at a crime scene are to gather as many witnesses as
00:56:16possible. If a witness is not cooperative, then they should be placed under arrest for that moment
00:56:23as a material witness or hindering an investigation of a police officer.
00:56:30Those guys are sitting right next to each other and they're talking to each other.
00:56:33And you never have witnesses to a crime sit there and sit with each other. You isolate them,
00:56:39you take them to a holding cell, put them in different cells. They've got room especially for that.
00:56:43But the prime players, the secondary level players, they should be all isolated so as not, uh, to experience
00:56:50misinformation effect or to give, uh, false information or to, uh, congeal their information into one witness.
00:57:02When the detectives arrived and, uh, Detective Becker at the time was the homicide detective on a case,
00:57:08um, he took us individually one at a time into his, his car and, uh, started talking to us as
00:57:18he was
00:57:18trying to talk to us and to, you know, get answers. I don't think I'm not speaking for everyone, but
00:57:24I'm
00:57:24going to speak for myself that I was in a clear state of mind to answer him period, because all
00:57:29of this
00:57:30stuff is running through my head. Frank Alexander, who was Tupac's bodyguard, who was driving the car behind
00:57:37him was, uh, someone we interviewed. I just saw my friend get shot and not only him being my friend,
00:57:43I'm the bodyguard, I'm supposed to be protecting him and I couldn't do anything, you know, no one would
00:57:48have been able to do anything, but the fact is myself nor anyone else were in a frame of mind
00:57:55to answer
00:57:55any kind of questions at that particular point in time. Again, people were evasive, didn't want to say much
00:58:02of anything, uh, I mean, they didn't see anything, they aren't going to, you know, they aren't telling
00:58:11us everything that they know. And, um, it was basically the police talking as if they were at the
00:58:19mercy of the, the people who, who were witnesses to the case. Said, oh, well, they won't talk to us,
00:58:26so, and Shug Knight won't talk to us, we haven't talked to him yet, um, he won't return our calls.
00:58:33I was never interviewed by any of the police agencies, the FBI, nor Las Vegas PD, and I found
00:58:40that to be a little strange because for the last week I was with Tupac and I got a, I
00:58:46didn't get a
00:58:46single question from anyone about what I thought, what the, my theory was on what happened, nor about the
00:58:53next tell phones where I had heard the conversation that said, God. No interviews. This is my first,
00:59:01any kind of interview. It was the DA's office, but by no, any other federal agencies now.
00:59:11These people would be, should be isolated and transported whether they wanted to or not
00:59:19to the police station, uh, because they're material witnesses. He's going to have to make some very
00:59:24difficult choices. One of those difficult choices, does he want to put his freedom on the line not to
00:59:29cooperate? In other words, are we going to have to take him into custody for obstructing an investigation?
00:59:34We're going to need to take him back and do what we need to do to interview him. Bodyguards,
00:59:38because of their association and close association to whom they're guarding, you know,
00:59:43they're privy to things being said, things being seen that they may normally keep to themselves.
00:59:51But in this situation could actually lead to an identification of a suspect or suspects. So bodyguards
01:00:00are a prime source of information. So I don't know how you can say, how the police can say that
01:00:07that's not
01:00:07cooperation when they weren't even approached. They're just sitting in the waiting room. And if they're
01:00:11willing to give information, then a detective who neglects going for that information is losing a lot
01:00:20of valuable leads in this type of investigation. I was there in Vegas when he was shot. It doesn't
01:00:26matter whether you're bodyguards or you're a housemaid or you're a butler, you're privy to information,
01:00:33which is crucial and you may keep it to yourself. But at the, at a certain juncture, these things become
01:00:40paramount. These things become crucial. The conversations that are overheard, the conversations
01:00:45that are had, that need to come forward. Because this was the first time I ever dealt with any kind
01:00:52of music industry, uh, case like this. And I, it was a learning curve for me as far as how
01:01:00everything
01:01:00was done. And it was very, very confusing to me how things were kind of just done haphazardly.
01:01:28Yafu Fula was a name that a lot of people have thrown back in our faces that we were derelict
01:01:35in
01:01:35doing things. Yafu Fula was interviewed the night of the shooting. Yafu Fula gave a statement. People
01:01:45say we never interviewed him. He was interviewed. And the big thing is everybody says that he said he
01:01:54could identify the shooter. No, he did not. He never said that to us. He said he might be able
01:02:04to identify
01:02:05the driver. That is what he said.
01:02:17We tried to re-interview him. The problem was, this is a big country. People go wherever, you know,
01:02:25we don't have tracking devices on them. So we have to depend on people that we know we can get
01:02:31in touch
01:02:31with to try and reach out to him. Malcolm Greenidge said he could identify the shooter. We finally track
01:02:43him down to set up a re-interview. And he says, I'm not going to look at any photos because
01:02:49I can't
01:02:50identify them. Yeah, we got beat up in the LA Times over that. And I'm thinking, okay, put up or
01:02:57shut up,
01:02:58base. And well, he, but again, Reggie Wright Jr. is the one that brought him to that interview.
01:03:06Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. The great and powerful eyes has spoken.
01:03:14You know very little about Marion Suge Knight's partner in business. There are no pictures of
01:03:20this man circulating on the internet. He's a man in the shadows. That man's name is Reginald Wright Jr.
01:03:28Reggie Wright Jr. was clearly at the middle of the entire orchestration of the assassination,
01:03:33to be sure. However, one must look at the other elements that would have been involved.
01:03:38Reggie Wright Jr. was a former Compton police officer. His record as a police officer was short
01:03:44and unremarkable. Reggie Wright used to work for Compton PD. Yes. I know he had some type of medical
01:03:52retirement. Running right-way security, he was not working for Compton PD. I have no relationship with
01:03:59Reggie Wright at this time, nor do I plan to. My impression, my opinion of Reggie Wright Jr. was
01:04:10he's employed by death row records to do a certain job. He's going to do what his employer has him
01:04:20do. He's
01:04:21going to divulge what they want released to the police and withhold
01:04:29things that maybe they don't want released. Reggie is not honest and I want to leave it at that.
01:04:36One of Reggie's problems was that Reggie didn't have the executive protection background that
01:04:40we all had. But the difference between, I would say, the team and myself and Frank is Frank and I
01:04:46would speak up about it. You know, we would say, hey, Reggie, you know, you should do it this way
01:04:52and this is why. Or you should do it this way and this is why. And I think he was
01:04:55so busy being the boss
01:04:57that his employees couldn't tell him how or what to do when all we were trying to do was educate
01:05:04him a
01:05:04little bit in how you do this or how you do that regarding executive protection matters. And it was
01:05:11kind of sad to us because, like Frank said, we had such a tight team that Mr. Wright and us
01:05:17could have
01:05:17gone places. We could have did a lot of things. We could have made a lot of money together. But
01:05:22he was
01:05:22too busy not wanting to be educated, per se, on on particular issues that we were well experienced
01:05:30and that he was not. But if it was if it seemed as if myself or Frank were trying to
01:05:34tell him,
01:05:35you know, what he could or couldn't do, then he wasn't hearing it. And that was the end of that.
01:05:40So there was a lot that we never got done that we could have gotten done professionally.
01:05:43I guess the way to sum Reggie up is he was just selfish. His childhood friendship with Knight
01:05:48was one part of the attraction. But he had one asset that made a relationship with him
01:05:54even more attractive. His father. Reggie Wright Sr. was on the Compton Police Department's
01:06:00Gang Detail and is still employed by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
01:06:05Unlike the notorious reputation of his son, Reggie Wright Sr. has remained a well-respected
01:06:11and revered member of the Compton police scene. His father's status as a conduit to the gang
01:06:17population may have given Reggie Jr. a unique first-hand relationship with the same gang leaders
01:06:24that knew his father. If that's not a conflict of interest, I've never heard one.
01:06:30Suge Knight, also from Compton, may have seen the opportunity to use Wright's network to his advantage.
01:06:36He would know. He grew up there. A shrewd business move indeed.
01:06:42In my opinion, Reggie Wright Sr. should have excluded himself from the investigation immediately,
01:06:48because it's an obvious conflict of interest. And it was a mistake not to do that.
01:06:53The fact that Reggie Wright Sr. and Reggie Wright Jr. are involved in this case, in my mind at least,
01:06:59creates a classic conflict of interest. And it's something that anyone looking at this case,
01:07:05I think, should be aware of. I was told that normally Tupac wore body armor in public.
01:07:13He wasn't doing that. And the way it was put to me is that I guess he was told not
01:07:19to wear it. Now,
01:07:20I don't know why. Could Reggie Wright make that sort of call and use death row resources for that
01:07:28effort? Apparently so. In these court documents, we learned that Wright was not only the acting
01:07:34general manager for death row, but was also agent of record for death row records. You're suing a
01:07:39corporation, at least in the state of Ohio, and I think just about every other jurisdiction,
01:07:43you have to have some person to serve process on. And that person, again, in the state of Ohio is
01:07:51someone that's designated and the record is on file at the Secretary of State's office as to the
01:07:56person who the service would be placed upon. These lawsuit transcripts also show that Wright had the
01:08:02authority of managing witnesses and financial arrangements on Knight's behalf. We also know that
01:08:08Wright had the off-duty police departments of Los Angeles, Compton, and Las Vegas at his disposal.
01:08:15If this seems to be a lot of responsibility and power, consider the fact that Wright was in charge
01:08:21of security for death row's most valuable asset at the time. Shakur was killed while Wright was in charge,
01:08:29and he was given a promotion when most security agents would not have a job. Or was he always in
01:08:36charge just under Suge Knight? We now know that Reggie lied tonight, including what happened that night
01:08:43and his own instruction. But I'm going to add something to that. We were also instructed to lie
01:08:51by Reggie Wright to Suge. And the reason we were instructed to lie was because Reggie Wright told us
01:09:00not to carry any weapons. Suge called the meeting and all the artists were instructed to come to this
01:09:06meeting and certain security was invited. And I happened to be one of them. But prior to going into the
01:09:15meeting with Suge and all the artists from death row, Reggie met with us out front in his own meeting
01:09:20and instructed us to say certain things. And when I got into the meeting, it was a meeting
01:09:27based, the meeting was basically about what happened. And the artists were drilling security
01:09:34about what methods we had used and what were some of our tactics. At that time,
01:09:42Suge wasn't even aware that I was still doing security.
01:09:46Reggie had taken me to another job that he was doing at a church, securing a church up in Inglewood
01:09:55from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.
01:09:57I looked around and no one said it. No one was speaking up for security. So I seen it was
01:10:02more,
01:10:02and I've been in these type of meetings before, even at the fire station. It's almost like a,
01:10:06similar to a political type meeting of far, you know, of what was going on. So I was one of
01:10:13the few
01:10:14people that spoke up and said, wait a minute, we were instructed not to carry weapons. And none of
01:10:21the artists knew that. They didn't know we were instructed not to carry weapons that day.
01:10:25And it looked like Reggie wasn't going to say that information to them. So I spoke up and said,
01:10:32no, we were instructed not to carry weapons that day. And that's why no one in security,
01:10:36with probably the exception of me, had a weapon.
01:10:40So Suge wasn't even aware that I was still working with Rightway. I remember Michael asking me,
01:10:47or telling me rather, I'm sorry, telling me that Reggie had told Suge that I was no longer working
01:10:53with Rightway security. And I would have wondered what he would have done or how he would have felt
01:10:59to have known that I was still working for Rightway all the way up until the end of November.
01:11:05The fact that Reggie Right Sr. is a police lieutenant who apparently was involved in this case
01:11:13is the father of Reggie Right Jr., who, as I understand it, is the head of security for death
01:11:19row records, creates a huge conflict of interest. And the fact that the elder Mr. Right is referred to
01:11:27in the affidavit for the search warrant, I think in some ways would taint that search warrant. At a
01:11:33minimum, it should have been brought out in the body of that affidavit for the search warrant,
01:11:37the relationship between the parties. It would have been helpful for the judge reviewing that
01:11:43application or affidavit for a search warrant to know that.
01:11:46The greatest lie the devil ever told was, he doesn't exist.
01:11:50Oh, I was regularly, regularly, you know, contacting the police. And I had sources within the police
01:11:57department saying, hey, they don't want this thing to go to trial. You know, all these gangster
01:12:04rappers would come to town. It would be bad publicity for Metro. And for the city, it would be bad
01:12:10for
01:12:10tourism. And, you know, I guess justice comes second to tourism. But at least that's what I was being
01:12:18told from within. And these are sources, you know. But basically, it was buttoned up at the police
01:12:25department. I mean, they would talk to me, but they would tell me nothing. Now, Compton got involved
01:12:30because they brought detectives there and handed a CRIPS member to them who they thought had
01:12:34information. And Las Vegas police didn't interview him. They talked to him casually. Hi, how you doing?
01:12:41That sort of thing. But they didn't formally interview him and did not name him a suspect
01:12:47and let him go into the night. A man once said that people will believe a big lie sooner than
01:12:53a little
01:12:53one. And if you repeat the lie frequently enough, people will sooner or later believe it. That man
01:13:01was Adolf Hitler. This is an affidavit, a sworn statement written as a matter of record.
01:13:09It contains facts and sworn testimony. This affidavit was used to secure a search warrant in
01:13:15which 22 arrests were made. As far as the affidavit and the officer's style of preparing it,
01:13:20some of them are narrative and some of them are a little bit more factually based with bullet points.
01:13:26It's pretty much up to the police officer as to how he wants to style he or she wants to
01:13:31style the
01:13:31affidavit for the search warrant. But the bottom line is they have to swear that those facts are true.
01:13:36And judges, when they're signing search warrants, the search warrants that I signed when I was a judge,
01:13:42more often than not, it'd be at 3 o'clock or 4 o'clock in the morning. And you read
01:13:46it carefully
01:13:46and you question those officers. But at the end of the day, the judge signing that search warrant,
01:13:51yeah, he's got to trust the officer. He's got to trust that what's contained in the affidavit is
01:13:56correct and what's contained in the affidavit is truthful. And if at some point down the road,
01:14:01it's found to be not truthful or not correct. The fruits of that search that was born from
01:14:08the affidavit and the search warrant can be suppressed. It began before dawn. The crime
01:14:13suite involved 300 officers, 10 agencies, including the FBI at more than 37 locations in the Compton,
01:14:20Linwin and Long Beach areas. Compton police say the arrests were for local crimes in connection with
01:14:2512 shootings that occurred in the city of Compton that resulted in three deaths. But officers did
01:14:31reveal there could be a link to the murder of rapper Tupac Shakur. Our investigation revealed that some
01:14:37of the motivation for the shootings that occurred in Compton may be in retaliation for the events that
01:14:43transpired in Las Vegas. In this affidavit, two important myths are spawned. The Orlando Anderson
01:14:50shooter myth and the East Coast, West Coast myth. This affidavit relies heavily on the statements of
01:14:56confidential informants who can neither be named nor verified as to their existence. Police often use
01:15:03informants to help investigations move, but informant information can be considered unreliable.
01:15:10Many times in search warrants, police officers are relying on confidential and what they refer to as
01:15:15reliable informants. In the body of the affidavit for the search warrant, it has to be spelled out why they
01:15:22believe these these people that they believe is confidential informants, why that they've used them in the
01:15:28past and that they've been reliable in the past. So search warrants have to be supported by affidavits
01:15:35sworn to by the police officers. On September 8, 1996, Suge Knight does not go to his home to rest.
01:15:42Instead,
01:15:43he does a strange thing. He leaves town. Trevon also leaves town. Suge Knight and Trevon go back to LA.
01:15:51Their goal, start a cover story and a gang war. Unless the story's written to try to get,
01:15:59if somebody else is driving it, someone who's behind the murder is driving this story and feeding this
01:16:05over to the LA Times to steer the investigation in another direction. It wasn't only the Compton police
01:16:12that were interested in the identity of Anderson. Somehow, Anderson was pegged by someone to not
01:16:18only be the shooter, but a shooter with rival gang affiliations different from that of Shakur and Death
01:16:24Row. This caused a gang conflict to flare right after the shooting. Five people died and 11 others were
01:16:32wounded in shootings. All started by a rumor. On September 11, 1996, Knight returns to Las Vegas,
01:16:41but not without Compton police recovering a mysterious duffel bag with Southwest Airlines tags on it,
01:16:47some guns, and a box of .40 caliber shells. The bag did not belong to Orlando Anderson, and it takes
01:16:54a bit of
01:16:55logic jumping to make any connection to Anderson at all, save the unknown and unverifiable confidential
01:17:02informants. Prosecuting cases where confidential informants are involved is always a difficult
01:17:07process because courts will bend over backwards, judges will bend over backwards to protect the
01:17:14identity of those informants. In some cases, on a specified showing, the identity of the informant can be
01:17:21revealed. But informants, whether you agree with the concept of using them or not, are in this day and
01:17:28age a very big part of the system, and judges will bend over backwards to protect their identity
01:17:36so police officers can use them in the future. But from a prosecutor's point of view, it can be problematic.
01:17:43Brennan goes on to mention that on September 16, 1996, there was a meeting between Compton police
01:17:49and Las Vegas detectives. Eager to share what they have found and their likely suspect, they learned
01:17:55that a .40 caliber shell was found at the shooting scene. They also learned that the weapon was thought
01:18:00to be a Glock. Within three days, Compton PD wins the informant lottery, finding an informant who just so
01:18:09happens to know that Orlando Anderson had a Glock .40. Now remember, there was no mention of a Glock in
01:18:16the
01:18:16cache of weapons recovered from that mysterious duffel bag. Now there were so many holes in this story.
01:18:22I always say the truth makes sense. Other things don't make sense, and you can find holes, and that thing
01:18:29was just
01:18:29rife with holes. If you take Trayvon's credibility away as an eyewitness, what is there?
01:18:36Enough inflammatory statements to incite a gang war. With enough disinformation,
01:18:41the waters were decidedly muddy, giving Knight a great cover story to use when he returned to Vegas
01:18:48to meet with the detectives. In order to get a grand jury indictment in any jurisdiction in this
01:18:54country, state, federal, whatever, what you need is probable cause. You do not have to prove the case
01:19:01beyond a reasonable doubt. That's the standard for trial. In order to get an indictment, there has to be
01:19:06probable cause that an offense has been committed, and the person charged with that offense has committed
01:19:12it. Not that high of a standard. It's certainly not proof beyond a reasonable doubt. In some criminal
01:19:18cases, and certainly in this one, in my opinion, the bottom line comes down to power. It comes down to
01:19:25money. It comes down, I think, to witnesses maybe not saying everything that they know. The amounts of
01:19:33money that have been bandied about in this case with respect to royalties and what was owed certain
01:19:38people is really astounding. And that certainly has to be a motivating, or I believe it's a motivating
01:19:43factor in this case.
01:19:49When I first heard about it, I thought that he was going to recover. But when I seen him,
01:19:53to be honest, he looked like he was in a bad state.
01:19:57Sergeant Manning told me that, yes, young black men get killed. I believe that's a direct quote from my
01:20:02book, The Killing of Tupac Shakur.
01:20:05I don't know where Pac would be at right now, and only God knows. But being that,
01:20:08if you look at him, his music that he did now, that's still selling now, that he did 10 years
01:20:12ago,
01:20:12it lets you know he probably still would have been ahead of most of these cats. And God knows best,
01:20:16because the music that he putting out now, he's been recorded, and it's still selling platinum.
01:20:20I remember we went to see him that Friday, the same Friday he died. And we went to visit him
01:20:25in
01:20:25Vegas at a hospital in about, I guess like, it was about one o'clock that day. And myself and
01:20:33a couple
01:20:34of other people, we went in to visit him. And he was just laying there and just helpless. And
01:20:40kissed him on his forehead, and it was cold. And after then, by then we got on the road to
01:20:45come
01:20:45to LA, he was already dead. I mean, I just messed my whole day up. And the people that I
01:20:51was with
01:20:51too, we all, we felt very sad, because we thought that for some reason he was going to make it.
01:21:09But
01:21:10absolutely. And he just didn't deserve to die like that. He really didn't. Um, it matters to me,
01:21:17because of the relationship that I had with him, and the things that he did for my family,
01:21:23from the kindness and the goodness of his heart. You know, and I just really,
01:21:28you know, I just, I really appreciate everything that he did. And I guess that's my love for him.
01:21:34And if you can go back and work the case and talk to people in the past, I mean,
01:21:38there's a body, there are bodyguards who were never interviewed, who the police could go,
01:21:42go back to it. I mean, police are so proud of themselves when they open up an investigation,
01:21:48and 20 years later, they solve the case. It was, uh, it was a haze. It was like a dark
01:21:55cloud.
01:21:56It was just sort of over the organization, if you will, for less of a word. You,
01:22:01you know, Tupac was loved by all of his colleagues, and he was loved by his security staff. So,
01:22:10for his death to come about the way it did, unfortunately and sadly, um, things kind of
01:22:17slowed down. Yeah, I mean, you know, people were mourning him. People, people were mourning him.
01:22:22Other witnesses though, who have since ended up deceased, you know, that we attempted to talk
01:22:30to that night, refused to talk to us. McDonald, uh, didn't have anything he wanted to say to us. Now
01:22:38he's dead. Uh, people that we talked to during an investigation in California, uh, they're dead. I
01:22:50mean, yeah, a lot of people have died that were directly or indirectly linked to this investigation.
01:22:59So, we would try to get in touch with people and, and you, again, you'd have to go through death
01:23:05row
01:23:05records or whomever to try and, and locate them. And we tried to reach out to re-interview Yafu Fula
01:23:14through death row records, death row attorneys. And we kept getting the running around. Yeah,
01:23:21yeah, we'll get you in touch with him. Yes, we'll do this. Yes, we'll do that. There are new
01:23:27investigators here in Las Vegas that are actively working the investigation. I know that for a fact.
01:23:33When I was a judge, if I would have found out that police officers misrepresented or lied in
01:23:38a search warrant, I would have taken immediate action. Uh, I think the first thing I would have
01:23:43done would be to talk to the prosecuting attorney about a prosecution against those officers, uh,
01:23:48for perjury or some related offense. Let the grand jury decide. That's the way our system works. It's a
01:23:54group of citizens who decide whether a case should be prosecuted. And again, based upon what I've seen,
01:23:59I think it's a case that should be presented to a grand jury. I, I never did get over it.
01:24:03I think
01:24:03the only person I talked to about it was Frank. And to this day, I believe that that gotcha was
01:24:11inside the organization and not out. The story of Tupac Shakur is a story that does not have a happy
01:24:18ending yet. It may never have one. The actions of Wright, either with or without Knight's knowledge,
01:24:24put an end to one of the most talented artists in that decade. Wright was directly in the middle of
01:24:30it, well beyond the act of negligence. And even when Wright and company tried to manufacture the gang
01:24:36rivalry and the Orlando Anderson stories, to their credit, the Las Vegas police didn't buy them. The
01:24:43story is much simpler than that. It's the story of a big lie. A lie to Tupac on how much
01:24:49money he had.
01:24:50A lie to the public on who killed Tupac. And a lie as to who's responsible for the death of
01:24:56Tupac.
01:24:57The man behind the curtain. But in my death, because we all are going to die and that's the
01:25:03facts of life. When I stand before God, I believe that our lives are replayed for us. And at that
01:25:11point
01:25:12in time, because Pac was a part of my life, it will be revealed to me who killed Tupac. New
01:25:19witnesses and
01:25:19facts have been put forth. These facts were offered to media and to the Vegas police department.
01:25:25Both refused them. It's now your turn. No matter what you believed about this man,
01:25:31no human being deserved what happened. We hope you'll ask for those who care to get involved
01:25:36and help put this matter to justice. Or let this be your child.
01:25:42Our lives begin to end the day that we become silent about the things that matter.
01:25:47We're not alone. My mom and mom often attend the rest of the day of Tupac as a
01:26:46Gracias por ver el video.
01:27:16Gracias por ver el video.
01:27:17Gracias por ver el video.
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