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Sanyika Shakur (born Kody Dejohn Scott; November 13, 1963 – June 6, 2021), [1] [2] also known by his former street moniker Monster or Monster Kody, was an American author and former gangster. He was a member of the Los Angeles-based Eight Tray Gangster Crips. He got his nickname as a 13-year-old gang member when he beat and stomped a robbery ...
Tupac Shakur c. 1995. Famous rapper and actor Tupac Shakur was murdered in Las Vegas in September 1996; he was shot on the 7th and died from his wounds on the 13th. [47] His music was released under the Death Row Records label headed by Suge Knight; Shakur was killed while being driven by Knight through the city. [48]
Tupac Shakur attended the Bruce Seldon vs. Mike Tyson boxing match with Marion "Suge" Knight, the head of Death Row Records, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.After leaving the match, one of Knight's associates, Trevon "Tre" Lane, a member of the M.O.B. Pirus gang based in Compton, California, spotted Orlando Anderson, from the rival South Side Compton Crips gang, in the MGM Grand lobby. [6]
Police lapel videos captured the moments a couple was detained by Las Vegas SWAT officers during a nighttime raid at a home in July in connection with the cold case killing of rapper Tupac Shakur.
The man charged with murder in the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur knew the gravity of his arrest last week near his home on the outskirts of Las Vegas, according to police body camera footage ...
Rapper Tupac Shakur, left, and Death Row Records Chairman Marion Suge Knight, attend a voter registration event in South Central Los Angeles, on Aug. 15, 1996. (AP Photo/Frank Wiese/File)
When asked how Sanyika Shakur got his gang nickname "Monster" he replied, "Well, America produced me," but he basically said that he beat a man so badly that the police said whoever did it was a monster, and the name stuck. [1] He also blamed the community he used to live in as the reason why he joined a gang.
[164] (death announced on this date) Sanyika Shakur, 57, American criminal, member of Crips and author (Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member). [165] Carol Smith, 95, American contralto. [166] Frances Stein, 83, American-French fashion designer, lung cancer. [167] Gérard Vergnaud, 88, French mathematician and philosopher. [168]