Tupac Shakur was killed in 1996, but the mystery of
who shot him in 1994 and why was never solved. Now a convicted murderer
in New York says he did it for $2500.
The man allegedly responsible for shooting rapper
Tupac Shakur in November 1994 has come forward to confess to his crime.
According to convicted felon
Dexter Isaac, he was paid by music executive
Jimmy "Henchman" Rosemond to shoot Pac.
"I want to apologize to his family [Tupac Shakur] and for the mistake I
did for that sucker [Jimmy Henchman]," Dexter Isaac told
AllHipHop.com from prison. "I am trying to clean it up to give [Tupac and
Biggie's]
mothers some closure." Isaac said he was comfortable going on record
relating to the robbery and shooting, since the statute of limitations
had expired. Legally, no one can be prosecuted for the assault at this
time. Isaac was a lifelong friend of Jimmy Henchmen, who helped the
former mogul set up his first company, Henchman Entertainment, in 1989. (
All Hip Hop)
Pac's 1994 shooting was initially reported as an attempted robbery.
Trouble really began for Tupac after he was shot November 30th, 1994 at
12:20 a.m. It set the grounds for his beef with Biggie/Puffy and Bad Boy
Records. He was shot 5 times in a recording studio in Times Square.
There were many theories on this shooting. The media largely portrayed
the shooting as a standard robbery, in which Tupac went for his gun, and
was shot. (
All Eyez On Me)
In the past, former Los Angeles Times writer
Chuck Phillips accused Rosemond of being a conspirator in the 1994 shooting.
If the name Chuck Phillips sounds familiar, it's because he's as infamous for slinging questionable articles as
Drake is for dropping love songs. In 2008, Phillips was fired from the LA Times after alleging that Notorious B.I.G.,
Diddy and Czar Entertainment head Jimmy Rosemond knew that Tupac Shakur would be attacked at New York's Quad Studios in 1994. (
MTV)
"It never fails every year around Tupac's death that Chuck Phillips
raises his fabricated mouth against Jimmy Rosemond but we intend to
silence his foul mouth with this lawsuit and bury these tampered minutes
and paperwork that Chuck Phillips received from jealous and envious
inmates, which is the basis of this fairy tale story the Daily News
wrote," the statement reads. "A story void of any characters; Who are
these invisible people Jimmy Rosemond informed on? Last year Chuck
Phillips said Jimmy and Sean Combs shot Tupac and this year according to
Chuck Phillips and the Daily News he's an informant. Make up your mind.
This is why we've named them both in this lawsuit and there's more to
come as our investigation unfolds. On more than one occasion both Daily
News & Chuck Phillips have contacted the same inmate trying to
coerce him into saying Jimmy was an informant. We have affidavits from
inmates to prove the efforts of their coercion and how determined they
were in proving their point. Even after the article's release Chuck
Phillips continued in his quest to change the mind of individuals who
refused to lie against Jimmy Rosemond at grand jury proceedings." (
Statement)
Last September, the
New York Daily News reported Rosemond cooperated with authorities in the past.
One of Rosemond's former lawyers even cited his repeated cooperation
with the authorities in asking for leniency in a Los Angeles gun case.
He noted that Rosemond's dime-dropping helped Brooklyn prosecutors send a
man to jail - exactly what the "stop snitching" campaign rails against.
Investigators say it's hypocrisy: Rosemond dishes when it suits him,
yet makes a fortune off artists like Game (real name Jayceon Terrell
Taylor), who titled a 2005 album "Stop Snitchin/Stop Lyin." This is what
the court records show: While Rosemond was held on a drug and gun case
in North Carolina in 1996, four inmates plotted a jailbreak and asked
him to join. He alerted authorities and spent several days in solitary
to avoid retribution, his lawyer at the time wrote in court papers
obtained by The News from federal archives. In 1997, facing bail-jumping
charges in New York, Rosemond gave information about crooked jail
officials who altered paperwork to let him post bail. He made "several
monitored phone calls to one of the correction officers,"but the target
was suspicious and "reluctant to speak with Mr. Rosemond," court papers
said. (
New York Daily News)