Tupac Shakur's last words to cops: 'We'll take care of it'
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The last known words spoken by Tupac Shakur were “We’ll take care of it.”
Retired Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officer Garry Dale testified that he pressured Shakur to tell him who fired the shots that wounded record producer Marion “Suge” Knight and killed the slain rapper 30 years ago.
“He was still talking, and I was trying to convince him to tell me the name of whoever his assailants were,” Dale testified in Duane Keith “Keffe D” Davis’ murder trial in Nevada.
Shakur, en route to a Las Vegas hospital by ambulance on Sept. 7, 1996, allegedly told Dale “no,” then said something along the lines of “we’ll take care of it” more than once while refusing to cooperate with investigators. He died from his wounds less than a week later.
“I couldn’t get him to talk to me any further than that,” Dale testified this week on video from the trial.
Davis was arrested in connection to Shakur’s killing in September 2023. The 63-year-old former shot-caller allegedly boasted in his 2019 memoir that he was the uncle of gangster Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, who’s rumored to have fired several shots from the backseat of a white Cadillac into a BMW being driven by Knight. Shakur was in the passenger seat.
Anderson was killed in a 1998 shooting believed to have been gang related. The two other men said to have been in Cadillac with Davis and Anderson are also dead. Prosecutors believe Davis furnished the gun Anderson allegedly used to kill Shakur. Shakur and Knight were accused of having earlier assaulted Anderson inside an MGM Grand hotel and casino where Mike Tyson had just boxed.
Davis pleaded not guilty to being involved in Shakur’s death. He blames the allegations in his memoir on a rogue ghostwriter.
Knight, who’s a decade into serving a 28-year sentence in southern California on an unrelated manslaughter charge, told ABC News he wants no part of Davis’s trial.
“Leave me out of it,” the Death Row Records founder said last week.
Knight, 61, warned that prosecutors and defense attorneys alike would regret forcing him to appear in court.
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