Tupac

In addition, on Halloween of 1993, Tupac was arrested for shooting at two off-duty, white, police officers. The police were in the midst of a traffic-related argument when Tupac and his entourage pulled up. What happened next is unclear. The police say Tupac fired first. Most witnesses say the officer pulled the gun first. Tupac was charged with two counts of aggravated assault. On the day of Tupac's hearing, the officer Whitewall was arrested for aggravated assault on another young black male. The D.A then dropped all charges against Tupac. Probably the worst and most influential charge filed against Tupac was in 1993, when he was arrested for the sexual abuse of a young woman. This charge would be the only one to ever stick. When convicted he was sentenced to 4-8 years in Rikers Island Maximum Security Prison. The biggest event in Tupac's life was, by all accounts, a shooting in 1994. While awaiting trial on the sexual abuse charge he went to record a song at his close friend's recording studio. In the lobby, four robbers approached him. During the robbery, Tupac went to pull his gun from his belt. However, before Tupac could get his gun, the robbers shot him 5 times. Two shots hit him in the chest, one in the abdomen, one grazed shot to the head and one shot to the testicles. After shooting him, the robbers began stomping his face. Tupac believed to his grave that the robbery was a cover-up for a failed assassination attempt over a business deal gone wrong. Two hours and forty-five minutes after receiving life saving surgery for his wounds, against doctors orders, Tupac checked himself out of hospital for fear that his life was not safe in the public hospital. Twenty-four hours after getting shot, Tupac checked himself into a different hospital, under an undetermined name. It is now believed that the Gambino crime family provided him with protection while in this hospital. After leaving the hospital he was sentenced to jail and he left for prison.