Tupac Shakur shot after leaving the MGM Grand

On the night of September 7, 1996, rapper Tupac Shakur was shot in a drive-by attack in Las Vegas after leaving the MGM Grand, where he had attended the Mike Tyson fight that evening. He was transported to University Medical Center of Southern Nevada and died six days later; the incident and ensuing investigations received extensive national and local media coverage. The events at and around the MGM Grand that night are frequently referenced in accounts of the shooting and its long-running investigation.