The Los Angeles Times reported Friday that Notorious B.I.G. supplied the gun that was used to kill Tupac Shakur, and offered gang members $1 million to kill him.

“The shooting was carried out by a Compton gang called the Southside Crips to avenge the beating of one of its members by Shakur a few hours earlier,” wrote Chuck Phillips, who spent a year investigating the case.

“Orlando Anderson, the Crip whom Shakur had attacked, fired the fatal shots. Las Vegas police discounted Anderson as a suspect and interviewed him only once, briefly. He was later killed in an unrelated gang shooting.”

“The murder weapon was supplied by New York rapper Notorious B.I.G., who agreed to pay the Crips $1 million for killing Shakur. Notorious B.I.G. and Shakur had been feuding for more than a year, exchanging insults on recordings and at award shows and concerts. B.I.G. was gunned down six months later in Los Angeles. That killing also remains unsolved.”

The complete article, including a detailed desciption of what happened that night, is available at the papers’ web site (latimes.com).






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