Las Vegas police arrest suspect for 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur, says report

A suspect has finally been arrested for the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur, according to a report.

Sources told The Associated Press on Friday that a man had been taken into custody on suspicion of the unsolved murder.

Tupac was killed in a drive-by shooting while he sat in a car at an intersection near the Las Vegas strip on 7 September 1996.

Earlier that night, Tupac had gone to watch a Mike Tyson boxing match at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino on the strip with Suge Knight, the boss of his record label Death Row Records.

In the lobby of the hotel, Tupac attacked gangland rival Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson in a beating that was captured on surveillance footage.

On leaving the MGM Grand, Tupac and Knight drove along the strip in their BMW and stopped at a red light at an intersection.

A white Cadillac pulled up beside them and opened fire.

Tupac was shot four times with one of the bullets piercing his lung. He died six days later in hospital.

Despite several witnesses on the scene of the shooting, no arrests have ever been made and it remains a mystery.

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