Posted on 05/23/2014 11:24:08 AM PDT by Bratch
One late-summer night in 1996, a rap superstar was gunned down just off the Strip. Since then, his story has become legend. But for the Metro cop who was first on the scene, that night remains unforgettably real.
The call came in on the radio just after 11:15 p.m.: Shots had been fired near the intersection of Flamingo and Koval, with possible victims. Several vehicles had made a U-turn on Flamingo and headed west. The bicycle officer who made the call from the Maxim hotel began trailing the cars, but was too far behind to catch them. He could, however, see them turn left onto Las Vegas Boulevard.Chris Carroll was a sergeant on the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department’s bike patrol unit on the Strip. The 12 officers under his command rode in pairs, but Carroll was riding solo when he got the call that night, September 7, 1996. Traffic on the Strip is always slow-moving on a Saturday evening, but it was especially thick in the aftermath of Mike Tyson’s first-round technical knockout of Bruce Seldon at the MGM Grand a few hours earlier. And, now, somewhere in the midst of all those vehicles was a caravan of cars, one of them perhaps carrying the shooter.
Carroll rode north to intercept them. “I’m thinking, ‘How am I going to stop these cars?’” Carroll says. “Usually on bikes, we used whistles and things like that, or we could call for a vehicle to help us. But as I’m riding toward them, I’m thinking, ‘These guys are on the run, there’s multiple cars and I’m heading nose-to-nose with them.’”
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Tupac got shot in the balls in New York in 1994. So then he was Wunpac. Then he got capped in Las Vegas, so I guess that makes him Nopac. Or Deadpac.
In any case, good riddance.
I could and did
Let us pause and reflect the loss to American culture...(sniffle!)...OK, I’m over it. He was One-Pac when he died anyway.
Who?
“Hey, that brother in that car has a gu...”
To quote Her Heinous: “What difference at this point does it make?”
I'm not reading that mess. What were his final words?
“Rosebud”
I think I have seen Captain Picard in that same position, might be a funny Photoshop idea.
Im actually surprised, considering our current “leadership” in washington, that the face of ol’ tupac hasn’t replaced the faces of the old dead white guys on our dollar bills......
“Legend?” Bosh. Just another two-bit gangwad shot down in the gutter. A disposal problem and little else.
So in actuality, his last words were "Uuurrrrrrrrrkkkkgghghhh . . ." Fitting.
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