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Anderson's lawyer claimed the settlement would have netted Anderson $78,000. The Associated Press reported in 2000 that Shakur and Anderson's estates settled the competing lawsuits just hours before Anderson's death. Afeni Shakur's lawsuit was filed just four days after Anderson's. Anderson's lawsuit sought damages for injuries resulting from the MGM Grand scuffle, and for emotional and physical pain. Ī year later, Shakur's mother Afeni Shakur filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Anderson in response to a lawsuit he had filed against Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight, Death Row associates, and Shakur's estate. The police also failed to follow up on a lead from a witness who had spotted a white Cadillac similar to the car from which the fatal shots were fired and in which the shooters escaped. That witness, rapper Yaki Kadafi, was killed two months later. Las Vegas police failed to follow up with a member of Shakur's entourage who witnessed the shooting and who told police he could identify one or more of the assailants.
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Las Vegas police discounted Anderson as a suspect, according to a Los Angeles Times article, because the fight in which Shakur was involved in assaulting Anderson in the MGM Grand lobby had happened just hours before the shooting. However, the arrest was only tangentially connected to the Tupac shooting, as Compton police said they were investigating local shootings and not the one in Las Vegas. Īnderson was detained in Compton, California a month after Shakur was shot, along with twenty-one other alleged gang members. In September 1997 Anderson told the Los Angeles Times that he was a fan of Shakur and his music, but denied being the murderer. Rumors circulated that he had bragged about shooting the rapper, a claim he later denied in an interview for VIBE magazine. Larry Spinosa told the media, "At this point, Orlando Anderson is not a suspect in the shooting of Tupac Shakur." Anderson was subsequently named as a suspect. The fight occurred three hours before Shakur's shooting. However, according to BG Knocc Out in an interview with VladTV, Anderson escaped the worst of the beating by managing to cover his face during the attack. Anderson then suffered a rather severe beatdown as he was essentially jumped by 5 men with no one to help him. Tupac can then be seen on the MGM’s security camera running over to Anderson with the rest of his entourage and throwing the first punch. On September 7th 1996, after the Mike Tyson fight, Lane coincidentally spotted Anderson by himself in the MGM, and told Tupac and the rest of the Death Row entourage that Anderson was the one responsible for snatching his medallion. This move was extremely disrespectful and infuriated Suge Knight, Tupac Shakur, and the rest of Death Row. There was rumored to be a bounty placed on Death Row medallion by their rivals, the Compton Crips, which Anderson was a respected member of.
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In July 1996 Anderson was involved in an altercation at the Lakewood Mall, where he and his entourage assaulted Travon Lane, a member of Death Row Records, and snatched his Death Row medallion.