Two months after Shakur’s murder in Las Vegas, Suge Knight was interviewed by ABC while incarcerated for a parole violation. When asked “if you knew who killed Tupac, would you tell the police?” Clad in a blue prison jumpsuit and white T-shirt, Knight calmly responds “absolutely,” before pausing and including “not” into his statement. “Why not?,” reporter Brian Ross barked back. “Because it’s not my job. I don’t get paid to solve homicides.”
Writer Randall Sullivan also appears in the same ABC news report. Having honed his craft as a contributing editor for Rolling Stone for decades, his name in subsequent years has also become synonymous with the deaths of both Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls after publishing LAbyrinth – one of the most definitive works on the subject that featured the writer working closely with Detective Russell Poole of the LAPD. Sullivan noted, “The common link in both murders is really Suge Knight and the implication of Suge Knight.”
Sullivan’s suspicions about Suge Knight center on his close ties to the corruption inside of the LAPD during the ’90s. Dubbed “The LAPD Rampart Scandal,” those involved in the Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums (CRASH) anti-gang unit saw 70 of their own officers charged with various crimes like executing shootings, planting of false evidence, frameups, dealing drugs, bank robbery, perjury, and the covering-up of their illegal activities.