On
September 7, 1996, Shakur attended the Mike Tyson -
Bruce Seldon boxing match at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
After the boxing match, Shakur spotted 21 year-old Orlando
"Baby Lane" Anderson, a member of the Southside
Crips in the MGM Grand lobby. Shakur rushed him and
knocked Anderson down, and Shakur's entourage beat him.
The incident was captured on the hotel's video surveillance.
Anderson and a group of Crips had beaten up a member
of Death Row's entourage in a Foot Locker a few weeks
earlier, precipitating Shakur's attack. After the fight
with Anderson, Shakur met up with Suge Knight to go
to Death Row-owned Club 662 (now known as restaurant/club
Seven). Shakur rode with Knight in Knight's 1996 black
BMW 750i sedan, as part of a larger convoy of cars including
some of Shakur's friends, The Outlawz, and bodyguards.
At
approximately 11:10 PM, Suge pulled over to an intersection
by another vehicle so Shakur could exchange words with
the two unidentified women in the other vehicle and
invite them to go to the club with them. At approximately
11:15 p.m., while stopped at the intersection of East
Flamingo Road and Koval Lane, Shakur while standing
out the open sunroof was shot at several times in a
drive-by shooting. Shakur was struck by four bullets
out of the twelve shots that were fired at him; he was
hit twice in the chest, and once each in his left arm
and thigh, while Knight was grazed in the head by a
piece of glass. The
convoy did a u-turn over the median going west on Flamingo
followed by Metro bicycle officers who finally caught
up with the convoy on the strip just before Harmon across
from the Aladdin.
