Floyd Mayweather Jr's claim he witnessed Tupac Shakur's murder resurfaces amid latest developments in case
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. doesn’t know who killed Tupac, but he did witness the infamous shooting in Las Vegas.
On Sept. 7, 1996, Shakur was headed to Death Row Records’ Suge Knight’s Club 662 in Las Vegas in a black BMW when a white Cadillac pulled up next to his vehicle and fired shots into the passenger’s side. Shakur was struck four times and was rushed to University Medical Center of Southern Nevada.
He died six days later from internal bleeding while in an intensive care unit.
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Floyd Mayweather in action against Aaron Chalmers (not pictured) during their exhibition fight at The O2, London. Picture date: Saturday, February 25, 2023. (Zac Goodwin/PA Images via Getty Images)
As the case resurfaces due to a search warrant that came on July 18, so did a clip of Mayweather explaining to his friends one night in Las Vegas that he had been living very close to where the shooting occurred. He was a young, up-and-coming boxer at the time.
"The car pulled up and shot Tupac," Mayweather said while walking the streets of Las Vegas with some company, pointing to the exact situation he saw. "Car pulled right here and shot Tupac at this light. Car went that way. I was living right here in 1996 when Tupac got killed. Right here – I ain’t never told nobody. Only the close people with me know."
LAS VEGAS POLICE SEARCH HOME AS PART OF PROBE INTO TUPAC SHAKUR'S 1996 MURDER
Today, Shakur’s death remains a mystery as to who fired the shots. The Las Vegas Police Department just recently executed the search warrant in connection with Shakur’s murder.
Detectives served the search warrant to a home