Rap Musician Tupac Shakur Is Shot in New York
Rap musician Tupac Shakur, in New York to stand trial on sexual molestation charges, was shot during a robbery in Manhattan early Wednesday, police said.
Shakur, 22, was shot in the head and groin as he and two friends were about to enter Quad Recording Studio in Midtown Manhattan about 12:30 a.m. EST, New York Police Sgt. James Coleman said. The musician was listed in guarded condition at Bellevue Hospital. He appeared in the film “Poetic Justice” with Janet Jackson and has released two rap albums.
One of his companions was also shot during the holdup, which involved three robbers, Coleman said. That man, who was unidentified, was shot in the abdomen.
The incident occurred as Manhattan jurors began deliberations in Shakur’s trial. He and his road manager, Charles Fuller, 23, are charged with forcibly sodomizing and sexually abusing a woman in Shakur’s New York hotel suite Nov. 18, 1993.
Defense lawyers said the rapper denied forcing the woman to have sex, and that she brought charges after seeing him with another woman.
The biggest entertainment stories
Get our big stories about Hollywood, film, television, music, arts, culture and more right in your inbox as soon as they publish.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
