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Tupac Shakur crime scene investigator Sheryl McCollum believes that Sean "Diddy" Combs may be linked to the rapper's 1996 murder and his previous shooting in 1994.
“This whole thing to me started in 1994 — the first time Tupac is shot,” McCollum, who was involved in Shakur's 1996 death investigation, told NewsNation on Friday.
The "All Eyez On Me" rapper was shot during an alleged robbery at Quad Studios in New York City’s Times Square, where Sean "Diddy" Combs was present with a group of around 40 people.
“You ain’t gotta shoot somebody five times to take their jewelry and their money,” McCollum pointed out.
“Sean ‘Puffy’ Combs and his entourage of 40? Unharmed. Unthreatened.”
“How does that make sense to anybody that one person is going to be robbed and not the other 40? Who would have had more money and jewelry? Forty.”
Following the incident, Shakur publicly accused Biggie Smalls (the Notorious B.I.G.), Bad Boy Records, and its founder, Combs, of being involved, citing their indifferent reaction when he arrived at the studio bleeding.
“Nobody approached me. I noticed that nobody would look at me,” he shared with Vibe magazine in 1995.
“Puffy was standing back too. I knew Puffy,” he added. “He knew how much stuff I had done for Biggie before he came out.”
Shakur was killed two years later in a drive-by shooting as he left a boxing match at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
“Both times that Tupac Shakur is shot, he is trapped in something,” McCollum explained in her interview with NewsNation.
“He’s trapped in an elevator, and then he’s trapped in a car. There is literally nowhere to run.”
“Both scenes though, ironically, don’t have video footage,” she noted. “To me, this signifies somebody close to him knows his whereabouts on that day, that time, and that location.”
“That, to me, shrinks your suspect pool pretty good. Only a handful of people would have known where he was on both of those days.”
Naturally, Combs, now 54, and Biggie denied any involvement in Shakur's death. Ironically, Biggie was killed in 1997, and his case remains unsolved.
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