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Diddy becomes a suspect when Tupac Shakur's family reopens the 1996 murder case

Diddy becomes a suspect when Tupac Shakur's family reopens the 1996 murder case

Sean Diddy Combs is being investigated for his alleged complicity in the murder of legendary rapper Tupac Shakur.

The suspicion arises in connection with the shooting in 1994, in which the founder of Bad Boy Records and his 40-member entourage remained unharmed in the same studio. Tupac was shot multiple times during a suspected robbery.

“For me, this whole thing started in 1994 – when Tupac was shot for the first time,” said Sheryl McCollum, the crime scene investigator of Shakur's 1996 murder NewsNation Friday.

“You don’t have to shoot someone five times to steal their jewelry and money,” McCollum explained.

“Sean 'Puffy' Combs and his 40-man entourage? Unharmed. Unthreatened.”

“How can it be clear to anyone that one person is being robbed and the other 40 are not? Who would have had more money and jewelry? Forty.”

McCollum's suspicions were taken into account when the murdered rapper's family decided to seek a wrongful death sentence in July.

Tupac's family has also hired attorney Alex Spiro, who has worked for Elon Musk and Megan Thee Stallion, to investigate the matter, while Diddy remains incarcerated in a Brooklyn detention center on multiple allegations of sexual assault and extortion.

“People from Diddy’s past are coming forward and providing information,” an insider said Page Six.

Before his murder, Tupac openly called out Notorious BIG and Combs, accusing them of involvement in the 1994 shooting because they remained unfazed when he hobbled into the studio with blood on his body.

“Nobody came to me. “I noticed that no one was looking at me,” he recalled to Vibe magazine in 1995.

“Puffy stepped back too. I knew Puffy,” he said. “He knew how much I had done for Biggie before he came out.”

Shakur was murdered two years later in a drive-by shooting as he left a boxing match at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

Combs and Biggie vehemently denied any connection to Shakur's death. Biggie was killed in 1997 and the case remained unsolved.

However, McCollum linked the connection to Tupac being cornered by attackers on both occasions.

“Both times Tupac Shakur was shot, he was trapped in something,” McCollum explained NewsNation.

“He's trapped in an elevator, and then he's trapped in a car. There’s literally nowhere to run.”

McCollum emphasized that no evidence was available either.

“However, ironically, there is no video footage in either scene,” she added. “To me it means that someone close to you knows where you are on that day, at that time and in that place.”

“That shrinks your suspect pool pretty significantly, in my opinion. Only a handful of people would have known where he was on those two days.”

Duane “Keefe D” Davis, who is currently charged in Shakur's death, once suggested in a 2009 interview with Las Vegas Metropolitan Police that Combs framed Shakur for a million-dollar murder – which is now prompting Tupac's family to do so has to dig deeper.