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June 16th marked 44 years since Tupac Shakur took his first breath after Afeni Shakur brought him to this world. With this fall counting 19 years since the West Coast legend is no longer among the living, a new theory about his murder saw the light of day thanks to Vice and XXL contributor Jeff Weiss.
Russell Poole, a former LAPD detective, praised for his being “tremendously accurate” professional whose work was “really solid, intuitive, smart, and fact-driven,” presented his own version of the events surrounding Pac’s unsolved killing. Weiss writes that in 1998, Poole received a tip from a local reporter according to which a man named Malcolm Patton’s made a confession he was involved in the murder. In the note, Patton claims that he, his brother Danny and Donald Smith, also known as Lil ½ Dead, are the ones who shot Tupac, while Reggie Wright, Jr., then head of Death Row security, gave them information as to his and Suge Knight’s whereabouts.
Poole then became convinced that Sharitha Knight, then wife of Suge Knight, was also involved in the conscription. Currently incarcerated, Suge was then going through a divorce with his wife. Needless to say, if the mogul had died while he was still married to Sharitha, she would have acquired sole control of Death Row.
" Suge wasn’t divorced yet and if he died in that hit, she’d get most of everything,” Poole said. “So she went to Wright Jr., who was in charge of Death Row and ran it while Suge was in prison.”The strangest detail from Poole’s theory remains the involvement of Lil ½ Dead – Long Beach Crip and Death Row affiliate whose two albums released in the early ’90s never brought him so much of a success. The former detective suggests he had his own motive to get rid of Pac. According to Poole, Lil ½ Dead first met Shakur in 1991 and passed him his demo tape. He claims it contained “Brenda’s Got a Baby,” which was stolen by Tupac and turned into his first hit single from his debut album 2Pacalypse Now.
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