VEGAS MYTHS BUSTED: Floyd Mayweather Witnessed Tupac Shakur’s Murder
A viral Twitter video posted on July 26, 2023 purports to demo boxing legend Floyd Mayweather claiming to follow the to the highest degree famous attestant to tap legend Tupac Shakur’s 1996 polish off yet to come forward.
“A auto pulled up rightfulness hither and stab Tupac at this light up and went that way,” the former world champ tells take director John Lackland Singleton (Boyz n the Hood) inwards the clipping posted past Twitter user @DailyLoud.
In the 17-second video, which generated more than 10 million views inward III days, Mayweather points out where a reported white Cadillac was when the fateful shots rang out, and the instruction it sped off in.
“I ain’t never told nobody,” Mayweather confides in Singleton. “Only the closest people with me know.”
Check out the footage for yourself.
No Contest
This is not only the most lately crosshatched Vegas myth this serial has tackled inwards to a greater extent than a twelvemonth on the beat, it’s also the easiest to bust.
Mayweather never claimed to get in reality witnessed Shakur’s execution inwards the video, which was originally gibe at to the lowest degree niner years ago. All he said was: “I was living redress here inward 1996 when Tupac got killed, right hand here.”
Where he lived at the time was the secret only if his closest friends knew about.
In an endeavour to go after clicks, however, @DailyLoud titled its video “Floyd Mayweather says he witnessed Tupac’s murder inwards Las Vegas.”
Several outlawed news websites, none of which merit to live mentioned here, ran with the misrepresentation. Chasing their have clicks, they published what they claimed was a brandmark new, bombshell scoop.
Apparently, Mayweather was so besieged with calls and e-mails from friends and household members — as comfortably as news websites and YouTube channels seeking commentary — he took to Instagram to waiver a financial statement on July 27.
“All of these false accusations staunch from me share-out the location of the shot with St. John Singleton due to my liberty of the country since I lived there,” the statement read. “This does non tight I witnessed Tupac’s shooting.”
Mayweather continued: “John Singleton was making a documentary film or picture show nigh Tupac, so he reached come out to me asking where Flamingo (Road) and Koval (Lane) was located. The location of Tupac’s shot is public knowledge and me living close on that point was simply a coincidence.
“I did non witness Tupac Shakur’s death.”
Of the illicit word sites that daunted updating their reports with Mayweather’s statement, nearly all covered their backsides by claiming that Mayweather “changed his story.”
What is True
Tupac Shakur was barb and killed on Sept. 7, 1996, spell being impelled due west on Flamingo Road past his friend, Death Row Records founding father Suge Knight, from a Mike Tyson fight down at the MGM Grand to a nightclub.
The snowy Cadillac pulled upwards to the redress of Knight’s BMW with three or tetrad men inside.
One passenger stuck a weapon come out of the support window and fired at least 13 rounds into the position of Knight’s car. Shakur was strike quaternity times inwards the chest.
Shakur was taken past ambulance to University Medical Center, where he was hard sedated, rushed into surgery, slipped into a comatoseness until he was removed from lifetime support, and died on Sept. 13, 1996.
He was 25 years old.
Though Shakur’s slayer remains a mystery, as no suspects were ever arrested, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department reactivated the example on July 17, 2023, searching the Henderson, Nev. home of Duane Keith “Keffe D” Davis.
Davis, 60, was the uncle of Orlando Anderson, Shakur’s long-suspected killer, who died in a 1998 gang-related shooting.
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