From the book ONLY GOD CAN JUDGE ME by Jeff Pearlman. Copyright © 2025 by Jeff Pearlman. From Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Reprinted by permission.
On the night of September 7, 1996, Tupac Amaru Shakur—one of the greatest hip-hop artists of all time—was hit by multiple bullets in a drive-by shooting at the intersection of Flamingo Blvd. and Koval Lane in Las Vegas. Earlier that night he had attended the Mike Tyson–Bruce Seldon heavyweight fight, after which he and several members of his Death Row Records entourage got into a brawl in the lobby of the MGM casino. The fight was started by Tupac, who was alerted to the presence of Orlando (Baby Lane) Anderson, a member of the Compton Crips (who had allegedly stolen a medallion belonging to a Death Row member) and punched him in the face. Anderson fell to the floor and was stomped on by Tupac, Suge Knight and several others. Anderson, it is widely believed, was the man who shot Shakur in the front seat of Knight’s BMW.
