Some of the late rapper’s fans were filled with hope
after a selfie of him which showed he was not dead but
living a secret life 20 years after he was shot in Las
Vegas, emerged online.
The selfie – which emerged as part of a video montage
and has since gone viral – is being dismissed out of
hand by the first police officer on the scene of the
shooting, who tells DailyMail.com he knows Tupac is
dead.
Chris Carroll, who is now retired, witnessed the 25-year-
old, bleeding heavily, slip into unconsciousness after
saying his last words to the cop: ‘ F* you ‘
Shakur was declared six days later without ever
regaining consciousness and Carroll tells DailyMail.com
he knew instantly that there was no hope.
The shooting of the rapper, on 7 September 1996, has
been surrounded by conspiracy theories ever since.
They include claims that Marion ‘Suge’ Knight, who was
beside Shakur in the car when he was shot, had ordered
the assassination – and that Carroll was involved, or
even that he helped Shakur flee to a new life by using a
look-a-like corpse to fake his death.
The picture seemed to fuel the claim that Tupac had
survived in secret, but Caroll, 51, says that is untrue,
and also says he does not believe Knight ordered the
hit, while warning that the most notorious of the rap
murders may never be solved.
‘Tupac is dead. I saw him lose consciousness and lose his
life 20 years ago,’ he said.
‘I still find it astonishing that fans and people believe that
Tupac is alive.
‘This new video does nothing to change my mind. There are
lookalikes all over the world and this may be another one or
a hoax.’
Carroll was on routine patrol on his cycle when he heard
a radio alert about shots fired into a BMW from a white
Cadillac a mile from where he was.
He was in fact just yards away as the BMW – driven by
Knight – crashed into a divider at the corner of Las
Vegas Boulevard, and Harmon and Carroll were on the
scene instantly.Shakur had been shot four times and
Knight had sped away from the scene, followed by other
cars in his entourage.
‘There were about five cars in the entourage and as they
began getting out of the cars I knew these were not normal
citizens,’ he told DailyMail.com.
‘So as they got out I had my gun drawn, so I told them all
to get down and stay back. They all looked edgy, and I was
concerned that may be a threat or could even just run
away.
‘But then in the BMW through the passenger window I saw
a silhouette of a guy, who was not moving.
‘My immediate concern was that he could be armed and
perhaps wanting to attack me or was the shooter. In the
middle of this chaos was Suge, who you cannot miss, as he
is this huge figure, very tall, wide and looking to come
towards me.
‘And to make matters even more concerning, blood was
gushing out of his skull where he had been hit by a bullet.
‘I told him to stay down and approached the passenger
door, where Tupac was slumped, but moving slightly
seemingly looking forward through the windscreen.
‘I kept repeating for him to get out of the vehicle, but he
didn’t respond.
‘I told the others to get down and I walked up to the door –
I reached out for it with my left hand and had my gun in my
right in case he would shoot.
‘There was barely any movement from Tupac and I could
see multiple bullet holes in the window and side door.
‘The door was tough to get open, perhaps where it had been
damaged by bullets, but after several attempts I got the
door open.
‘Tupac just flopped out onto my left arm. as I hadn’t
realized he was leaning against the door.
‘I then cushioned him down to the floor. Tupac was
grimacing in pain, looking panicked and gasping for
breathe.
‘His torso was shot up pretty bad with blood pouring from
his chest out through his shirt onto his gold chains. The
blood loss was vast and it curdled around the chains,
clinging to them.
‘As he was fading, Suge kept shouting and screaming “Pac,
Pac”, and then in the corner of my eye I could see him
come closer.
‘I warned him to stay back.
‘Instantly I realized that the victim was Tupac, gasping for
air and then gurgling, most likely from the blood filling his
throat and lungs.
‘At that moment my gut instinct told me that he was in
serious trouble. I thought about first aid, but his situation
was beyond me saving him – the multiple gun wounds, loss
and his rolling eyes meant only trauma specialists could
save him.
‘Tupac was losing his fight, but he kept looking at Suge,
who was growing more frantic and screaming at him.
‘At this stage I felt that he was unlikely to survive, so I
attempted to take a dying declaration from him.
‘I asked him “Who shot you? Who did this? What
happened?” repeatedly.
‘Tupac didn’t even acknowledge that I was talking to him,
as he was staring at Suge over my shoulder.
‘Then he finally moved his line of sight from Suge, glared at
me, mustered the energy to take as deep as breath as
possible and said, ‘F* you.’
‘His eyes rolled back, and then he started gargling and
choking before he looked back at Suge.
‘However that burst of energy proved too much, and his
body physically quit, he went limp, his eyes closed half
way, stopped breathing and he lost consciousness.’
Carroll says that is all the proof he needs that Tupac is
dead.
‘As soon as the ambulance got there, he had already lost
consciousness, he was intubated immediately and taken to
the local trauma center. And for all practical purposes, he
was really dead when he arrived there. We have one of the
best Trauma team’ in the States, if not the best, but they
knew he was gone.
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