Bombshell 243 page Tupac murder file finally released after cops battled to keep it secret for 24 years
BOMBSHELL Tupac murder investigation files - kept hidden by police for 24 years - have finally been released.
In 243 pages of previously unseen police documents, obtained by The Sun, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police state that the still unsolved probe was flawed from the start after witnesses to the 1996 shooting - including Suge Knight and Tupac's family members - provided no useful information to them.
The police department has tried to keep the documents - which contain dozens of new revelations - under wraps for the past 24 years because the investigation is still ongoing - but courts ruled last month the force can no longer keep the files sealed.
No one has ever been arrested over the 1996 murder of the rap icon - and The Sun has contacted Las Vegas Metropolitan Police several times over claims that they have not acted on information which could help them solve the infamous case.
However the police force has remained tight lipped and refused to reveal any information on the probe - until now.
While the files remain heavily redacted, The Sun can reveal for the first time:
- Tupac's entourage did not give any useful information to cops trying to solve the shooting.
- An off-duty Compton cop who claimed to be an FBI agent, allegedly forced his way into Tupac's hospital room and was "hindering" his medical treatment.
- Suge Knight was the intended target for Tupac killing "after taking out a contract to kill every Crip in Compton", a witness claimed.
- Never heard before witness testimony - including how one man claims he saw unknown male at the scene getting into a black BMW.
- Tupac was riddled with bullets which pierced his ring, his cigarette packet and the cash in his pockets.
- When Suge Knight drove away from the scene Tupac told him 'You the one that got shot in the head', according to the full transcript of his police interview.
- Cops were called by people from all over the country claiming they shot Tupac in the aftermath of the crime.
In one case summary from 2000, LVMPD state: "The investigation met problems early on" after the four members of the car behind Tupac and Suge "were less than forthcoming about what they saw during the shooting."
The car behind Tupac's BMW contained his bodyguard Frank Alexander, backing singer Yafeu Fula - who told police he was Tupac's brother - the rapper's cousin Katari Cox and his brother-in-law Malcolm Greenidge
It adds: "They also claimed there were no problems prior to the shooting.
"It was later learned a fight had occurred at the MGM involving Shakur, Knight and several other 'Death Row Records' members who had kicked and beat a Compton Crip, Orlando Anderson, after leaving the Tyson/Seldon fight.
"It took three days to get 'Suge' Knight in for an interview.
"He arrived with three attorneys in tow. Knight provided no information to aid our investigation.
"Numerous members of "Death Row" were contacted. Other than seeing the suspects in a white car, no other information of value was obtained from them."
Orlando Anderson, who was involved in the fight at the MGM hotel, is widely believed to be the shooter.
Police noted that bodyguard Frank Alexander claimed he could not describe any of the occupants of the shooter's car - but he did remember a car full of women to their right of their white Cadillac.
"Alexander said he did not get a good look at the Cadillac or it's occupants, but for some reason could describe a green convertible with four black females stopped on the right side of the Cadillac," the document reads.
"It appeared to me Alexander was not being completely truthful in his statement."
Yafeu Fula was the only one who described the driver of the Cadillac - but his description was only that he was a "light skinned black male with possible moustache" who had a "'b***h' face".
According to the files, only one person out of those they interviewed said he could "possibly" identify the shooter.
But, the document adds: "Unfortunately [REDACTED] was later murdered in [REDACTED]".
In another explosive police report from the hospital Tupac was rushed to after the shooting - University Medical Center - it is claimed a bodyguard and off-duty Compton cop tried to force his way into the intensive care unit as Tupac lay dying, "hindering" medical staff trying to save him.
According to the file, the actions of the man were labelled “a severe safety issue” by hospital security - and a police officer called to the scene expressed concern of “harm” being done to the rap icon because of his “disruption”.
The report explained how the cop caused a “disturbance” at the hospital on September 11 - four days after the rapper was gunned down.
Two police officers were deployed to remove him from attempting to enter ICU room number 11 following his clash with hospital staff.
The man first claimed he was an FBI agent, but refused to show identification and even when the cops arrived, he refused to cooperate with them and still attempted to force his way up to the star’s room, the report states.
The tense five hour confrontation took another odd twist when the cop made more unsubstantiated claims he was there on FBI business, working for Tupac and then his family.
Eventually the report reads: “He stated to me to me that he had been here because there had been a shooting earlier this date in the morning, that it may be related to Tupac’s shooting here in Las Vegas.”
Another witness - named Gregory Johnson - told police in a jail house interview that Suge Knight was the intended target on the night of Tupac's murder after he allegedly took a contract out to kill "every Crip in Compton".
According to the transcript, Johnson was told by a fellow inmate - whose name is redacted - that he went to Vegas to carry out a "hit" on Suge because he allegedly "put a contract on to do and have every Crip in Compton killed and some people got hit".
Johnson added: "He either said [they] bombed on...Tupac and them or ...dropped on them, but he was kind of disappointed that he wasn't able to...blast Suge."
The Sun reached out to a lawyer for Suge for comment on these allegations but they did not respond.
In other new revelations a witness named Mike Finnell claims he heard several shots then "saw a black male enter a BMW or Mercedes with tinted windows... this car along with six other cars made a U-turn and fled".
Also a police property report reveals how Tupac was so riddled with bullets, his yellow ring, his packet of cigarettes and $48 in folded-up cash had all been damaged or pierced with bullet holes.
And the transcript of Suge Knight's police interview is also revealed - in which the hip hop kingpin reveals how he heard gunshots, then "looked and grabbed Tupac and pulled him down and covered him up".
He said he laid down on top of the rapper and thought he had got shot in his head.
When the gunshot stopped, Suge said he did a U-turn and told Tupac he was taking him to hospital and the rapper replied, "You the one they shot in the head. You shot in the head."
Bizarrely, investigators say that in the aftermath of the shooting, they received calls from people around the country claiming to have been involved.
"Thus far, all the callers have been incorrect in the location or events surrounding the shooting," the documents say.
In a summary from October 2000, they add: "We still receive information from various anonymous, as well as identifiable sources regarding Shakur's death. None has proven reliable."
However the file release comes after The Sun revealed a former LAPD detective, who worked on the Tupac murder case, urged Vegas cops to arrest gangster Keffe D over the rapper's death - calling him a "self-confessed murderer".
Greg Kading says that Las Vegas police are aware of Keffe D Davis, 56, who has admitted to cops, on documentaries and in a book, that his nephew Orlando shot Tupac and that he was an accomplice, and simply need to arrest him.
Shockingly Keefe D even bragged in a book that shooting Tupac was "just another day at the office".
Keefe D does not appear to be mentioned in the files obtained by The Sun, although many of the names of suspects are redacted.
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Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department were sued by the Center for Investigative Reporting in 2017 for refusing to hand over the documents - even after the FBI had released its own.
An agreement was eventually reached that the department would release 1400 redacted files related to the case.
It's not known if the 243 pages obtained by The Sun via a Nevada Public Records Request are the entirety of the files, or if more are still to become available.