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Orlando Anderson 
Born August 13, 1974 Died May 29, 1998 (aged 23) Orlando Tive "Baby Lane" Anderson (August 13, 1974 – May 29, 1998) was an alleged affiliate of the South Side Compton Crips and was a person of interest in the brief investigation of the murder of acclaimed American rapper Tupac Shakur by Compton and Las Vegas police. Specifically Detective Tim Brennan of Compton filed an affidavit naming him as a suspect though fans and others have speculated as to Anderson's involvement since the incident.[1] He was never charged for the murder.
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Events surrounding the shooting of Tupac Shakur
On the night of September 7, 1996 Anderson and Shakur's entourage were involved in a scuffle at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas just three hours before Shakur's shooting. These events led to public speculation, but after two days of questioning Anderson in detention the Las Vegas homicide detective Lt. Larry Spinosa told the media, "At this point, Orlando Anderson is not a suspect in the shooting of Tupac Shakur.".[2][3] Later in the investigation, Anderson was named a suspect [4] Stories circulated on the street that Anderson had bragged about shooting the rapper, which he denied in an interview for VIBE magazine later.[5] Anderson was caught up in a round up of suspects in Compton almost a month after the shooting with 21 other alleged gang members. Anderson was detained and questioned, but not charged.[6] However, the raid was only tangentially connected to the Tupac shooting as Compton police admitted they were investigating local shootings and not the shooting in Las Vegas.[7] Though both jurisdictions investigated a possible connection between Anderson and the fateful shooting on the Las Vegas strip they were unable to link him directly to the crime, and no criminal charges were ever filed.
A year later Afeni Shakur, Tupac's mother, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Anderson in response to a lawsuit Anderson filed against Suge Knight, Tupac's estate and others in the Death Row organization. Anderson's lawsuit was in regards to injuries resulting from the scuffle that evening in 1996 - Anderson claimed to have suffered both emotional and physical pain and that he was beaten badly during the altercation. Afeni Shakur's lawsuit was filed just four days after Anderson's lawsuit was filed.[8] The Associated Press reported in 2000 that Shakur's estate and Anderson's estate settled the competing lawsuits hours before the death of Orlando Anderson.[9] - though only his lawyer offered a dollar figure attached to the settlement which he claimed would have netted Anderson $78,000.
In the aforementioned VIBE interview with Sanyika Shakur, (a.k.a. "Monster" Kody Scott), author of Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member, and in his first remarks to the media, Anderson professed to being a fan and an admirer of Tupac Shakur and his music, even after the events. He said he was cleared by Las Vegas police after two days of questioning.[10] The interviewer also remarked on the striking physical resemblance between Anderson and Shakur.
In October 2011, former LAPD detective Greg Kading, who was once the lead investigator in the murder of Christopher "Biggie Smalls" Wallace, came out with a book which alleges that Sean “Diddy” Combs commissioned Duane Keith “Keffe D” Davis to take out Tupac Shakur, along with Suge Knight, for the impressive sum of one million dollars. Duane Keith “Keffe D” Davis is the uncle of Orlando Anderson and detective Kading claims that Orlando was present in the vehicle which pulled up next to the BMW which Tupac was shot in.[11][12]
Death
On May 29, 1998, Orlando Anderson and associates, Michael Stone and Jerry Stone were involved in a shootout outside of Cigs Record Store in Compton, California. They later died at Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital (formerly King/Drew Medical Center) in Los Angeles, California. Michael Reed Dorrough was wounded at the time and later arrested in connection with the shooting. To date, no one has been charged with Anderson's murder.
References
- ^ http://www.associateds.info/?p=302
- ^ - NY Daily News: HE FOUGHT TUPAC ON FATAL NITE
- ^ - Transcript: Orlando Anderson's Interview with Sanyika Shakur for VIBE Magazine
- ^ Brown, P.32
- ^ - Transcript: Orlando Anderson's Interview with Sanyika Shakur for VIBE Magazine
- ^ Las Vegas Sun, "22-year-old detained in Tupac Shakur killing," October 2, 1996
- ^ - Arrest made in connection to Shakur killing
- ^ - Afeni Shakur Files Lawsuit Four Days After Orland Anderson Files a Lawsuit Naming Tupac Shakur and Others As Defendents
- ^ - Associated Press Report: Estate of Tupac Shakur settles with another slain man's family
- ^ - Shakur Was His Hero, Not His Victim, Says Man Some Suspect
- ^ Hip Hop DX interview with Detective Greg Kading
- ^ Murder of Tupac
- Brown, Jake (2002). "Guilty til proven innocent". Suge Knight: The Rise, Fall, and Rise of Death Row Records: The Story of Marion 'Suge' Knight, a Hard Hitting Study of One Man, One Company That Changed the Course of American Music Forever. Phoenix: Colossus Books. pp. 32. ISBN 0-9655064-7-5.
External links
- Archives of News Stories in Regards to the Murder of Tupac and Anderson's Alleged Involvement
- Scott, Cathy, The Killing of Tupac Shakur, Huntington Press: ISBN 978-0929712208 (paperback 2nd ed., 2002)
Categories:- 1974 births
- 1998 deaths
- Crips
- Deaths by firearm in California
- Murdered African-American people
- People murdered in California
- People from Compton, California
- Unsolved murders in the United States
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