Tupac killed in drive-by shooting, and Graham makes return to management
This week in 1996, US rap artist Tupac Shakur was shot multiple times in a driveby shooting in Las Vegas after watching a Mike Tyson boxing fight. The shooting occurred at 11:15pm when the car carrying the 25-year-old rapper was stopped at a red light at East Flamingo Road and Koval Lane.
Death Row Records boss Suge Knight was driving the car and Tupac was a front seat passenger as they led a convoy of cars.
Tupac was struck by four .40 caliber rounds fired from a Glock – two in the chest, one in the arm, and one in the thigh.
He died from his wounds six days later.
Orlando ‘Baby’ Anderson, a South Compton Crip gang member, was the prime suspect in the case at the time but denied any involvement and was never charged.
Anderson died in 1998 in a gang-related shootout.
There have been a number of conspiracy theories that
Tupac faked his own death and is still alive.
The artist– who has sold more than 75million records worldwide– consistently tops the polls as one of the greatest rappers of all time.
In other news, Alija Izetbegović was elected President of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the country’s first election since the Bosnian War.
In sport, George Graham made his return to football management with Leeds United, replacing the long-serving Howard Wilkinson at Elland Road.
It marked Graham’s return to football management following a year’s ban by the Football Association after it was discovered he had accepted an illegal £425,000 payment from Norwegian agent Rune Hauge following his former club Arsenal’s 1992 acquisition of John Jensen and Pål Lydersen, two of Hauge’s clients.
Graham later admitted he had received an “unsolicited gift” from Hauge.
In tennis, Pete Sampras retained his US Open title, beating fellow American Michael Chang 6-1, 6-4, 7-6 in the final.