[UPDATE]: Suge Knight’s lawyer, Thaddeus Culpepper, has denied making any affidavit on behalf of his client regarding the murder of Tupac Shakur.
In a statement to HipHopDX, Culpepper calls the story where the former Death Row exec named Tupac’s killer and said that he was the intended target “fake news.”
“As counsel for Mr. Knight, my duty is to represent and assist him in his present cases,” the attorney says. “I have never made any statements regarding Tupac Shakur, nor have I made any statements on my client’s behalf regarding Mr. Shakur, written or otherwise. Articles relying on this unattributed press release are without merit.”
It was originally reported that Knight verified the claims of the documentary Tupac Assassination: Battle For Compton that his ex-wife Sharitha and Death Row Records security chief Reggie Wright Jr. were behind the hit on the mogul the fateful night in Las Vegas where Tupac was shot instead. He died days later.
(This article was updated April 5. The original story is below.)
Another chapter in the saga of the investigation of Tupac Shakur’s murder has been revealed as Suge Knight‘s lawyer says in an affidavit that Suge knows who killed the West Coast rap icon and that it was, in fact, Suge himself who was the intended target of the hit.
The rap mogul made the claims through lawyer Thaddeus Culpepper and said that his ex-wife Sharitha and Death Row Records security chief Reggie Wright Jr. were behind the infamous drive-by shooting, WENN reports. Tupac was shot in Las Vegas on September 7, 1996 riding in the passenger seat of a BMW that Knight was driving after they attended a Mike Tyson boxing match. He died six days later.
The story is told in the documentary Tupac Assassination: Battle For Compton, which was released on DVD earlier this year. When Knight found out about the project, he reportedly sent out private investigators to find how the filmmakers knew what happened that fateful night.
“He admitted to Culpepper that the theories in the movie were true,” a source said.
The theory says that Sharitha and Wright conspired to take out Knight to take over Death Row. It’s not a new theory, though. A similar chain of events was put forth in the book Tupac 187: The Red Knight, which was co-written by former LAPD detective Russell Poole and the same people behind the Battle For Compton film, Michael Douglas Carlin and Richard Bond.
“Culpepper told Carlin individually that not only did Knight confirm the events as portrayed in Compton, which portray Knight was the intended target and Shakur as collateral damage, as true, but also goes on to allege that these 1996 events may have been the first in a history of attempts on Knight’s life, culminating in the recent attempted killing of Knight at the 1OAK Club in Los Angeles, where Knight was shot six times,” a film spokesperson explained.
Wright Jr. has commented on the shooting before, and has denied any involvement.
Previously, former LAPD detective Greg Kading gave an account of Tupac’s murder that accused Puff Daddy of being behind the crime, claiming he hired a hitman to take out Biggie’s rival. Kading told his story in the book Murder Rap, which was then turned into a documentary.
Knight is currently sitting in jail awaiting trial for murder charges.
Tupac’s life will be featured in the upcoming biopic, All Eyez on Me, due out in June.
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Before people think this is crazy, it really has to be true. Frank Alexander, Pac’s bodyguard’s account of the night backs this up when the security team was told not to bring their guns, and they heard somebody in the walkie talkie saying that it was done and kinda other fishy stuff. Reggie Wright was his right hand man so it looked like it had to be Suge, but I never believed Suge would sit in the car while it was happening. This makes sense.
I remember that damn. Even though i already knew Pac died over some bullshit.
dammmmmn anotha twist
If suge really cared for PAC he wouldn’t be telling us over 20 years since he died! That’s if this is true he in a very desperate situation right now. R.i.p 2pac best rapper of all time
Considering most of the people who were or would be a substantial witness account are either dead or in jail, I guess She figured it couldn’t get any worse so why nly tell it. And this very well could be true.
I meant he and not. Autocorrect is a MF sometimes LOL.
if u look at time of events, it makes sense why Suge would confirm it now.
Nah, I don’t believe DAT shit. U saying the shooters that killed PAC don’t know how to aim? If Suge was d intended target d world would HV known a long time ago or the immediate aftermath of the shooting would have proved it. Nah, I am not buying this.THEY KILLED UR FAVOURITE RAPPER!!!
Of course, he coordinated the shit
KNOWING is something different then THINKING you clickbaiting b@st@rds
was it (((David Kenner))) by any chance?
FOH.Now that Afeni Shakur is gone, he knows the coast is clear to say some BS abt the shooting. Only dumb asses would stop to think he saying the truth. Nobody cared about Suge Knight enuff back then to want to take him out. Enuff said.
Um back then Suge and death row were at the top of the game. Nobody cared enough about Suge back then? You got your history all fuc’ed up.
Couldn’t the police bring in his ex-wife for questioning if true?
Who gettin the money from all these movies and shit?
2 Pac’s murder is becoming worse than JFK conspiracies. I guess we’ll never know the real truth. He’s dead, move on
the longer he rotts in jail the more truth about who he is and what he did will come out..#GOD’SPLAN
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Agree…..
So if it was Suge’s security, where does that place Orlando Anderson and the fight/stomping?
2Pac stomped baby Lane n he came back for revenge.I think that’s the simple truth?
That fight with Orlando was probably orchestrated by Wright too. They used that as a decoy to make people believe that was the cause of his death.
That security team was more like a gang and they were the only ones who knew their route. 2pac will always be the best rapper ever no doubt.
100% facts ..told pac not to wear his vest that it was hot…..people even heard “got em” come across the radio ..reggie wright guilty as fuck
Say what you say but I actually believe this guy for once
Clickbait…..
In Suges interest to play this card. It would then throw doubt on his alleged involvement in BIG murder, thus put him in the clear….
How’d they MISS the 6 ft/ over 300 lb dude and hit the 5ft 8 165 lb dude? At a range of less than 15 feet??
@BBONYC …..I never meant nobody cared abt Suge, all I am trynna say is dat PAC was a larger figure than Suge Knight. If Suge was the intended target and he knew folks were after him, that shit wouldn’t have gone down that way, trust me. He prolly would have stayed back in Cali or be Rollin deep.
LMAO Come on now Suge! We all know what happened. It was war between Mob and South Side in Compton. Lane took that chain off Tray and Tray got Pac to hit him at the casino. South Side use to hold down Puffy and Big when they were in Cali. Everybody and they momma know Lane did that.
We KNOW who did it too….his name is Marion ‘Suga Bear’ Knight! Nice deflection try f*ck boy! Rot in a cell or get smoked on the streets……….
dont play into the smokescreens..do your research….suge had tons of crips killed after pac got murdered…he even went as far as supposedly arranging biggies hit…the cop who was there said there was genuine concern and anyone who thinks suge did it is crazy …..suge was in the car!!! he had nothing to do with 2pacs death ..the man is being honest …biggies thats another story …..loook up the rampart scandal …..look up interviews by reggie wright …how kadafi was kiled in jersey (by jersey crips related to death row) while suge was locked up. johnny j dead…..frank the body guard dead…all of suges henchmen dead…….suge is not lying/….reggie wrights dad was chief of police in compton …..this police involvement ..and gangs being paid off is what got pac killed …DEF NOT SUGE…dont blow false smoke out there man
If Reggie Wright set him up than why would suge let Reggie run death row while he was prison in 97.
Suge is ST8 lying!!!
cause Suge did not know at that point simple ….until it was run into the ground when he was in jail ..think about it ..the fight in the casino…violated his probation..you can clearly see suge breaking it up..then all his hitmen (buntry, and five others) were gunned down one by one starting in 1997 i believe ,…suge is guilty of alot but this is the main truth in the shooting….just curious to see if puffys connection or money in it is revealed…….he had ties through zip (south side crips) ..
Plus if he wanted PAC dead he wouldn’t have helped the cops open the car door( which the police couldn’t open) to get PAC out before he bled to death
So why use baby lane as decoy for Pac , if Reggie wanted suge hit?
And have all those people involved it don’t make sense. I believe murder rap to be the closet we
going to get to the truth.
personally i believe pac and suge were both the targets but i dont have the answer to that ..i believe puffys zip-southside crip connection/fear and money had something to do with it….it was originally puffys “bounty on the death row chain” that the incident in lakewood mall started over …which is not even 100% real it happened …i think puffys hand was in it ….check lil half dead “dead serious” album cover…snoops cousin….it has kadafi and pac dead at can am studios..i think puffy and reggie were def kissing cousins ….puffys alledgely a rat…..reggie wrights father was chief of police of compton …. i think the crip aspect involves puffy and i do think las vegas pd was in on it for many many reasons
Very hard to believe Suge. Regardless, if this is true, it means he sold his soul to the devil as the relationship with Wright Way Security (Reggie’s company) continued for a decade after Pac died. Suge stayed in that situation, albeit from jail.
Frank Alexander and Michael Moore knew Reggie had a hand in Pac’s murder, and both of them died of aledged suicide. Hmmmm? Why were they told to not carry weapons that night, and when Moore refused, why was he taken off Pac’s detail? Apparently Reggie was Suge’s main bodyguard except for that night. There’s a lot about this case that doesn’t seem right.
Exactly!
Goddamn can we just let Pac rest in peace? dude been dead for two decades, let’s just carry on his legacy instead of this fuck shit.
They have gone back 20yrs rap is so watered down & weak no real talent out here only the OG’s of the past still hold all the talent and news worthy because todays crappy so call artist
fuck this guy.
Biggie n puff did dats why big after … g.t a.d
wow just watched it, the levels of corruption within the LAPD and the Compton PD and their involvement with a known criminal organization like death row records are incredible, the players involved..the lengths to which the corruption, cover ups, scandals. murders, bribes, lies grew and so many people that could lead investigators to uncover the unbelievable levels of corruption within the LAPD and Compton PD and their involvement are dead…except Reggie wright JR. and Sharitha Knight.
I Jst Cn’t Understand The Whole Of This Shit….”Who Killed Pac???