2Pac: Unreleased Footage Moments Before His 1996 Murder Surfaces 

2Pac’s 1996 murder has seen renewed interest over the last week, and now unreleased footage from moments before the rapper’s death has emerged online.

In the video, which was released by The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection, ‘Pac can be seen loitering outside a hotel in Las Vegas with a group of women on the night of September 7, 1996.

The All Eyez On Me rapper would later enter his vehicle and depart the hotel, and soon after be shot multiple times in a drive-by shooting near the intersection of East Flamingo Road and Koval Lane.

Watch the newly-unearthed clip below:

Unreleased footage of 2Pac moments before he was shot in Las Vegas.

Unreleased video that was released of Tupac before he was shot has been released by The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection.

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The footage comes days after 2Pac’s murder investigation unexpectedly kicked back into life, with Las Vegas police executing a search warrant on a Henderson, Nevada home last Monday (July 17).

The property reportedly belongs to a woman named Paula Clemons, who is the wife of Duane “Keefe D” Davis, the uncle of ‘Pac’s alleged killer Orlando Anderson.

In addition to laptops, hard drives, photos, magazine articles and book manuscripts, police found several 40. caliber bullets that they will submit for forensic testing to determine if they are linked to ‘Pac’s murder.

The night of his death, 2Pac and his entourage got into an altercation with Anderson, a Compton Crip, in the lobby of the MGM Grand following the Bruce Seldon vs. Mike Tyson boxing fight. The scuffle stemmed from allegations that Anderson had stolen the chain of a Death Row affiliate months earlier.

Hours later, a white Cadillac pulled up alongside ‘Pac and Suge Knight’s car and opened fire, striking the rapper multiple times. He died six days later in hospital after succumbing to his injuries.

Anderson was identified by police as a suspect shortly after the shooting, but denied any involvement and was never charged over the crime. He was later killed in an unrelated gang shooting in 1998.

Keefe D has discussed 2Pac’s murder at length in various interviews and documentaries, as well as in a book he published in 2019 called Compton Street Legend.

It was in that book that he admitted to being in the car with Anderson and two others the night of ‘Pac’s death and handing his nephew the gun.

“Tupac made an erratic move and began to reach down beneath his seat,” he wrote, according to the Daily Mirror. “It was the first and only time in my life that I could relate to the police command ‘Keep your hands where I can see them.’

“Instead, ‘Pac pulled out a straw, and that’s when the fireworks started. One of my guys from the back seat grabbed the Glock and started bustin’ back.”

He continued: “The first shot skinned Suge in the head. I thought the motherfucker was dead. I heard stories that Suge supposedly used Tupac as a shield when the bullets started flying. But that’s some bullshit. Suge was already wounded.

“As the rounds continued flying, I ducked down so I wouldn’t get hit. When the shooting stopped, we boned out.”