Tupac’s supposed final words were about what you’d expect
Possibly because today’s rap beefs look like this, the ’90s feud that led to the deaths of Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur remains a subject of endless public fascination, and bottomless bins of tacky, airbrushed T-shirts. Adding to that legend, Chris Caroll, a former Las Vegas bike cop who was on the scene at Shakur’s fatal shooting in 1996, recently gave an interview to the Vegas Seven, where he recounted what he says were the dying rapper’s last words. (As opposed to his last wordz, which are already well documented.)
According to Carroll, Shakur’s final moments were spent focused on Suge Knight, in a way that we are certainly not at all implying is suspicious because we don’t want to get hurt.
“So I’m looking at Tupac, and he’s trying to yell back at Suge, and I’m asking him, ‘Who shot you? What happened? Who did it?’ And he was just kind of ignoring me. He was making eye contact with me here and there, but he’s trying to yell at Suge. And I kept asking over and over, ‘Who did this? Who shot you?’ And he basically kept ignoring me. And then I saw in his face, in his movements, all of a sudden in the snap of a finger, he changed. And he went from struggling to speak, being noncooperative, to an ‘I’m at peace’ type of thing. Just like that.
“He went from fighting to ‘I can’t do it.’ And when he made that transition, he looked at me, and he’s looking right in my eyes. And that’s when I looked at him and said one more time, ‘Who shot you?’