Sheryl McCollum analyzes Tupac's shootings: 'How does one person get robbed while 40 remain safe?'

Tupac Shakur's crime scene investigator, Sheryl McCollum, recently shared her thoughts on the rapper's murder in 1996 and a previous shooting in 1994.

In an interview with NewsNation on October 4, 2024, McCollum talked about the 1994 shooting that took place during a robbery at Quad Studios in Times Square, New York, where Tupac was shot multiple times. At that time, Sean "Diddy" Combs was reportedly present in the studio with approximately 40 others, none of whom were harmed.

McCollum questioned the circumstances surrounding the shooting, stating: "You ain't gotta shoot somebody five times to take their jewelry and their money...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."

During the interview, McCollum proposed that the roots of Tupac's tragic murder in 1996 might be linked to the 1994 shooting, suggesting a possible connection between the two events. 

In 1996, Tupac Shakur was fatally shot in a drive-by incident after attending a boxing match at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. McCollum drew comparisons between the two events, saying: "Both times that Tupac Shakur is shot, he is trapped in something...He's trapped in an elevator, and then he's trapped in a car. There is literally nowhere to run."

Another similarity McCollum pointed out is the absence of video evidence in both cases.  
"Both scenes though, ironically, don't have video footage," she said. "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."

Although Combs and Biggie denied any connection to Tupac's death, Biggie himself was murdered in 1997, and his case also remains unsolved.