Gun used in Tupac’s murder was found in Compton backyard in 1998
A new bombshell document is heating up the cold-case investigation of Tupac
Shakur's murder.
According to a new report, the gun used to kill the rapper in a 1996 drive-by
shooting in Las Vegas secretly surfaced 19 years ago in a Los Angeles County
backyard.
An unidentified man in Compton, Calif., found the .40-caliber Glock on his
property in 1998 and alerted police, TMZ.com reported Friday, citing a police
document unearthed by producers of the A&E docuseries, "Who Killed
Tupac?"
Mysteriously, investigators involved in the case have no idea where the
weapon is now, TMZ said.
Compton Police Department records reportedly show the firearm was booked on
May 30, 1998, but its alleged connection to Shakur not yet established.
Two years later, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department took over law
enforcement in Compton and received 3,800 confiscated firearms previously held
by Compton cops, including the Glock, TMZ said.
In 2006, a Sheriff's deputy working on the unsolved 1997 murder of Notorious
B.I.G. in Los Angeles discovered that the Compton address where the gun was
found had belonged to the girlfriend of a prominent Crips gang member.
The night of his death, Shakur got into a physical fight with an alleged Crip
inside a Vegas hotel.
Ballistics testing revealed a match between the Glock and the firearm used to
kill Tupac, TMZ said.
But the weapon wasn't sent to investigators in Vegas because a federal
prosecutor assigned to the case cited concerns the discovery might cause
problems with potential conspirators, the police document found by the producers
of "Who Killed Tupac?" said.
The weapon was not turned over and it's not clear where it is today, the
website said.
Tupac's brother Mopreme Shakur said in a clip of the final episode of "Who
Killed Tupac" that he was never told investigators found the gun.
The final episode of "Who Killed Tupac?" airs Tuesday night.
Source: New York Daily News
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