He’s sitting up and he’s struggling to get the words out, but he can’t really do it. And the guy I’m holding is trying to yell back at him. That has always left an image in my mind. After I pulled him out, Suge starts yelling at him, ‘Pac! Pac!’ And he just keeps yelling it. “He’s covered with blood, and I immediately notice that the guy’s got a ton of gold on – a necklace and other jewelry – and all of the gold is covered in blood. “So I grabbed him with my left arm, and he falls into me, and I’ve still got my gun in the other hand,” he continues. I couldn’t believe he was running around and doing what he was doing, yelling back and forth.”Ĭarroll says when he finally was able to open the door, Shakur’s limp body fell out of the vehicle, “like he was leaning against the door.” Gushing blood! I mean the guy had clearly been hit in the head, but he had all his faculties.

I’m like, ‘Fucker, back off!’ This guy is huge, and the whole time he’s running around at the scene, he’s gushing blood from his head. I’m yelling, ‘You guys lay down! And you, get the fuck away from me!’ And every time I’d point the gun at him, he’d back off and even lift his hands up, like ‘All right! All right!’ So I’d go back to the car, and here he comes again. “ keeps coming up on my back, so I’m pointing my gun at him.

“I grab the car door and I’m trying to open it, but I can’t get it open,” he says. Shakur was shot multiple times on September 7th, 1996 after leaving a boxing match with Suge Knight. Carroll was the first officer to respond to the grisly scene. “And then the words came out: ‘Fuck you.’”

“He looked at me, and he took a breath to get the words out, and he opened his mouth,” says Chris Carroll, a retired sergeant with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, in a new feature with Vegas Seven.

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