But nothing more is ever going to happen with it. “And an unsolved homicide case is technically never closed. “ is still considered an unsolved homicide,” Carroll explained, though he was not involved in the investigation after the incident had taken place. His mother, Black Panther activist Afeni Shakur, requested for his life support machine to be turned off. He died of internal bleeding on 13 September after several failed attempts by doctors to revive him. Shakur was then taken to the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada hospital, where he remained under a medically induced coma for six days. At that point, an ambulance showed up, and he went into unconsciousness.” “After that, he started gurgling and slipping out of consciousness. “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. And that’s when I looked at him and said one more time, ‘Who shot you?’ “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. I was more concerned that this was a bad situation to be in with just one other cop.”Ĭarroll then goes on to recount his final conscious moments. At the time, it didn’t really mean much of anything to me. “After I pulled him out, Suge starts yelling at him, ‘Pac! Pac!’ I look down and I realise that this is Tupac Shakur. "He gets Suge off my back, because Suge was somewhat of a threat to me. He was probably the guy who was chasing the cars initially. "Well, right about then, thank God, another bike cop shows up. “I’ve got him in one hand, I’ve got the gun in the other hand, I’m still yelling at the other guys, and I pull him out of the car.
But then I notice that he’s not coming out of the door he was falling out of it.
“And at first I thought the guy was going to bust out of the door right on top of me I thought this was his plan of attack, so to speak. “I finally get the car door to open, and as I pull it open, the guy inside came right out, like he was leaning against the door. Speaking for the first time publicly about finding Shakur injured in the seat of his car, Caroll recalled: The last words Tupac Shakur spoke have been revealed by a police officer who was called to the scene of the rapper’s murder.Ĭhris Carroll, a now retired Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department sergeant, told Vegas Seven magazine he was on bike patrol on the Las Vegas Strip on 7 September 1996 when Shakur was shot dead in his BMW in a drive-by attack.