As I read the article I noticed words he used. It think it did besmirch him but just not to this group (meaning us) people who knew and followed PAC, his legacy and understood his music. I think you got on the right track for the most part and I agree with most of what you said except where you say it doesn’t besmirch him in any way. I was waiting to see if anyone would really ask the questions as to why this guy was doing this. He looked at me and he took a breath to get the words out, and he opened his mouth, and I thought I was actually going to get some cooperation.
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And that’s when I looked at him and said one more time, ‘Who shot you?’
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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 he went from struggling to speak, being noncooperative, to an ‘I’m at peace’ type of thing. And then I saw in his face, in his movements, all of a sudden in the snap of a finger, he changed. And I kept asking over and over, ‘Who did this? Who shot you?’ And he basically kept ignoring me. He was making eye contact with me here and there, but he’s trying to yell at Suge. 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. There’s something in police work called the ‘dying declaration,’ a legal concept that, in a nutshell, basically says that if someone who believes they’re going to die gives out the name of a suspect or is able to explain what happened, that’s not considered hearsay in court when they’re not there to testify it’s admissible evidence.
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And as Suge is yelling ‘Pac!,’ I look down and I realize that this is Tupac Shakur.
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He’s sitting up and he’s struggling to get the words out, but he can’t really do it. And the guy I’m holding is trying to yell back at him. “After I pulled him out, Suge starts yelling at him, ‘Pac! Pac!’ And he just keeps yelling it. “After that, Carroll says Tupac lost consciousness and was taken to the hospital, where he was eventually placed on life support.” That has always left an image in my mind.”Ĭhris Carroll - a now-retired Vegas cop - reveals… during Tupac’s final moments before he slipped into unconsciousness … the rap legend made a slew of failed attempts to try to reply to a frantic, and wounded, Suge Knight flat out refused to give up the identity of the murderer who fired the fatal shots and had two choice words for Officer Carroll: “F*ck You”. “I immediately notice that the guy’s got a ton of gold on-a necklace and other jewelry-and all of the gold is covered in blood.