Tupac’s life, day by day

1. Oct 13

   Sentencing is scheduled; he faces up to life in prison. (As of October 2026: still pending.)

2. Aug 31

   After just under three hours of deliberation, the jury finds Davis guilty of first-degree murder with a deadly weapon. Davis says he will appeal. (Investigation)

   guilty verdict
3. Aug 17

   Opening statements in the trial of Duane Davis.

4. Aug 10

   Jury selection begins in Las Vegas; the jury is seated on 13.08.

5. June 5

   Sega announces that Tupac will appear as the character Amaru in the video game Stranger Than Heaven (due January 2027), with the permission and under the supervision of his estate.

6. May 8

   Baltimore renames part of Greenmount Avenue, near Tupac's teenage home, "Tupac Shakur Way."

7. that year

   Mopreme Shakur publishes his memoir This Thug's Life.

Legal status: Duane Davis was found guilty on August 31, 2026. Sentencing is scheduled for October 13, 2026. The verdict is not final.

1. Nov 18

   The murder trial is postponed again, to August 10, 2026.

2. Sep 25

   Assata Shakur, Tupac's godmother, dies at 78 in exile in Havana, Cuba.

3. July 4

   Young Noble (Rufus Cooper III), the last member Tupac himself brought into the Outlawz, dies at 47 in Snellville, Georgia; police report a suicide.

4. Apr 9

   In a separate case, Davis is convicted over a jailhouse fight; on 03.09.2025 he is sentenced to 16 to 40 months.

5. Feb 18

   The start of the trial is postponed to February 9, 2026.

1. Nov 3

   Quincy Jones, father of Tupac's girlfriend Kidada Jones, whom Tupac first attacked in public and later apologized to, dies at 91 at his home in Bel Air, Los Angeles.

2. June

   The judge refuses to let an entertainment manager post Davis's bail after prosecutors show he planned to market interviews with Davis once released.

3. Apr

   Tupac's estate threatens to sue Drake for imitating Tupac's voice with AI; Drake pulls the song Taylor Made Freestyle.

4. Jan 9

   The court sets bail at $750,000; Davis nonetheless remains in custody.

1. Nov 2

   Davis pleads not guilty.

2. Oct

   Staci Robinson's Tupac Shakur: The Authorized Biography is published.

3. Sep 29

   Following a grand jury indictment, Duane "Keffe D" Davis is arrested for Tupac's murder.

4. Aug 4

   Charles Ogletree, the Harvard law professor who represented Tupac as a lawyer, dies of Alzheimer's disease at 70 at his home in Odenton, Maryland.

1. Dec 16

   Mutulu Shakur leaves prison after almost 37 years.

2. Nov 10

   Mutulu Shakur, terminally ill with cancer, is granted early release.

3. Sep 28

   Coolio, who in 1995 starred in the video for Tupac's Temptations, shot without the jailed Tupac, dies at 59 in Los Angeles; the medical examiner later cites an overdose.

4. May 6

   Jewell (Jewell Caples), the "First Lady of Death Row"who sings on Thug Passion from All Eyez on Me, dies at 53.

5. Feb 9

   Snoop Dogg acquires the Death Row Records brand.

6. Jan 21

   The exhibition Tupac Shakur: Wake Me When I'm Free opens in Los Angeles.

1. June 16

   On what would have been Tupac's 50th birthday, Jada Pinkett Smith shares a previously unknown poem he wrote.

2. Apr 22

   Shock G (Gregory Jacobs), leader of Digital Underground, on whose Same Song Tupac rapped his first verse, is found dead at 57 in a hotel room in Tampa, Florida; the medical examiner rules it an accidental overdose.

1. June 17

   Davis publishes his memoir Compton Street Legend, in which he implicates himself.

2. Apr 29

   John Singleton, director of Poetic Justice, dies at 51 after a stroke at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

1. Oct 4

   In an unrelated case, Suge Knight is sentenced to 28 years in prison for voluntary manslaughter.

2. that year

   In the BET docuseries Death Row Chronicles, Duane "Keffe D" Davis says he was in the Cadillac on the night of the shooting.

3. Feb 27

   The series Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G. premieres on US television.

1. June 16

   The biopic All Eyez on Me, starring Demetrius Shipp Jr., opens on what would have been Tupac's 46th birthday.

2. Apr 7

   Induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, with Snoop Dogg giving the speech.

1. Dec 20

   The Hall of Fame announces him as part of the class of 2017.

2. Dec 5

   Big Syke (Tyruss Himes), co-founder of Thug Life and for a time a member of the Outlawz, dies of natural causes at 48 at his home in Hawthorne, California.

3. Oct 18

   In his first year of eligibility, Tupac is nominated for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

4. June 16

   Oakland proclaims "Tupac Shakur Day."

5. May 2

   Afeni Shakur dies at 69 in Sausalito, California.

1. July 10

   Hussein Fatal (Bruce Washington) of the Outlawz is killed in a crash on Interstate 85 in Banks County, Georgia; he was a passenger and was thrown from the car.

2. that year

   The Grammy Museum in Los Angeles opens an exhibition on Tupac. The Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts closes.

1. July

   All Eyez on Me is certified diamond (ten times platinum).

2. June 19

   The musical Holler If Ya Hear Me, built on Tupac's songs, opens on Broadway; it closes on 20.07.2014.

3. May 28

   Maya Angelou, who wrote the poems used in Poetic Justice and appears in the film as Aunt June, dies at 86 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

1. Dec 23

   Jeff Pollack, director of Above the Rim, is found dead at 54 while jogging in Hermosa Beach, California; police suspect natural causes.

2. Apr 28

   Frank Alexander, Tupac's bodyguard in his final year and present on the night of the Las Vegas shooting, is found dead at his home in Murrieta, California; police believe it was suicide.

1. that year

   After WIDEawake goes bankrupt, Death Row passes to Entertainment One.

2. Apr 15

   At Coachella a projection of Tupac shares the stage with Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg; the act is repeated a week later.

1. June

   A man imprisoned in New York claims to have been one of the robbers in the 1994 attack.

2. June 2

   Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt, former Panther leader and Tupac's godfather, dies at 63 in Imbaseni, Tanzania.

3. Mar 15

   Nate Dogg, Death Row singer and Tupac's partner on songs such as All About U, dies at 41 after several strokes in a care facility in Laguna Niguel, California.

4. that year

   Released FBI files show that the Jewish Defense League tried to extort money from Tupac and other rappers in the mid-1990s; they do not link the group to the murder.

1. that year

   Rolling Stone ranks Tupac No. 86 among the 100 greatest artists of all time.

2. June 23

   The Library of Congress adds Dear Mama to the National Recording Registry.

1. Jan 15

   Death Row Records is auctioned to WIDEawake Entertainment for $18 million.

1. Oct 3

   Johnny "J" (Johnny Jackson), producer of How Do U Want It and many other songs on All Eyez on Me, dies at 39 in the Twin Towers jail in Los Angeles, where he was being held after a DUI arrest; authorities treat it as suicide.

2. Aug 9

   Bernie Mac, Tupac's co-star in Above the Rim (as Flip), dies at 50 in a hospital near Chicago of complications from pneumonia.

3. Mar

   The Los Angeles Times publishes a story about the 1994 robbery and retracts it because it relied on forged FBI documents.

1. Dec 4

   Best of 2Pac is released in two parts ("Thug" and "Life").

2. June 12

   Beginnings: The Lost Tapes 1988-1991 is released.

1. Dec

   Jada Pinkett Smith gives the Baltimore School for the Arts $1 million; its new theater is named after Tupac.

2. Nov 21

   Pac's Life is released.

3. Sep

   Afeni calls off a planned memorial and burial of the ashes in Soweto, South Africa, at short notice. Most of the ashes reportedly rest in Lumberton, North Carolina.

4. Aug

   Jamal Joseph's book Tupac Shakur Legacy is published, with facsimiles of letters and lyrics.

5. that year

   Death Row Records files for bankruptcy.

1. Sep 20

   Live at the House of Blues, the recording of the July 4, 1996 concert, is released.

2. June 11

   The peace garden of the Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts opens in Stone Mountain, Georgia.

3. Jan 25

   Tupac: Resurrection is nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

1. Dec 14

   Loyal to the Game, produced by Eminem, is released.

2. that year

   Tupac is among the honorees at the first VH1 Hip Hop Honors.

3. Aug 10

   Death Row releases the concert album 2Pac Live.

4. that year

   Jasmine Guy's biography Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a Revolutionary is published.

1. Nov 14

   Tupac: Resurrection opens in US theaters.

2. Nov 11

   The Tupac: Resurrection soundtrack is released.

3. Oct 7

   Death Row releases Nu-Mixx Klazzics, with remixed Tupac songs.

4. Apr 17

   Harvard hosts the symposium "All Eyez on Me: Tupac Shakur and the Search for the Modern Folk Hero."

5. Jan 22

   The documentary Tupac: Resurrection premieres at the Sundance Film Festival.

1. Nov 26

   Better Dayz is released.

2. Sep 6

   The Los Angeles Times publishes the first part of Chuck Philips's investigation "Who Killed Tupac Shakur?"; the second follows on 07.09.2002.

3. Apr 3

   Alton "Buntry" McDonald, a former Death Row production manager who was with Tupac and Suge Knight in Las Vegas in 1996, is shot dead at a gas station in Compton.

4. that year

   Inducted into the Hip-Hop Hall of Fame.

1. June

   A dispute over the early Strictly Dope recordings is settled; they are later released as Beginnings: The Lost Tapes 1988-1991.

2. Mar 27

   Until the End of Time is released.

1. Nov 21

   The album The Rose That Grew from Concrete, with Tupac's poems performed by other artists, is released.

1. Dec 21

   Still I Rise, the joint album with the Outlawz, is released.

2. June 15

   The Don Killuminati is certified four times platinum.

3. that year

   The poetry collection The Rose That Grew from Concrete is published.

1. Nov 24

   Greatest Hits is released, including previously unreleased songs such as Changes.

2. that year

   A default judgment is entered against Tupac's estate in Scott Whitwell's civil suit.

3. June

   All Eyez on Me is certified nine times platinum.

4. May 29

   Orlando Anderson is killed in a shooting in Compton unrelated to the Tupac case.

1. Dec

   A Los Angeles judge rejects Billy Garland's claim to half of the estate.

2. Nov 25

   The double album R U Still Down? (Remember Me) is released.

3. Oct 8

   The film Gang Related opens.

4. Sep 8

   Orlando Anderson sues Tupac's estate over the MGM Grand fight; Afeni countersues. The dispute is settled in 1998.

1. Nov 10

   Yafeu "Yaki Kadafi" Fula of the Outlawz, a witness to the shooting, is shot dead in Orange, New Jersey.

2. Nov 5

   The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory is released under the name Makaveli and debuts at No. 1.

3. Oct

   The film Bullet is released.

4. Oct 2

   During raids in Compton, Orlando Anderson is arrested and released without charge in the Tupac case.

5. Sep 14

   His body is cremated.

1. Sep 7

   After the Tyson-Seldon fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Tupac and Death Row associates beat up Orlando Anderson. Around 11:15 p.m. Tupac is shot from a white Cadillac at the corner of East Flamingo Road and Koval Lane. (1996 shooting)

   Las Vegas
2. Sep 4

   Tupac attends the MTV Video Music Awards in New York.

3. Aug 12

   Recording of The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory, under the name Makaveli, is completed.

4. Aug

   Filming of Gang Related (earlier source: August 1-30).

1. Dec

   The Walker-Teal family's civil suit is settled for $300,000 to $500,000.

2. Dec

   The single California Love with Dr. Dre is released.

3. Nov 30

   Randy "Stretch" Walker is shot dead in Queens, exactly one year after the Quad robbery.

4. Nov

   The California Love video is shot in El Mirage, California (no press source).

1. Dec 23

   Tupac turns himself in at the Bellevue Hospital jail ward.

2. Dec

   After the shooting his biological father, Billy Garland, gets in touch; it is the first time they have seen each other since Tupac was a small child.

3. Dec 1

   Tupac appears in a wheelchair for the verdict: acquitted of sodomy and weapons charges, convicted on two counts of first-degree sexual abuse. He then recovers at Jasmine Guy's home.

4. Nov 30

   Tupac is robbed and shot in the lobby of Quad Recording Studios in Times Square. (1994 shooting)

   Quad Studio

1. Dec 21

   After a hearing in New York, Tupac sarcastically wishes reporters a "Merry Christmas" (no press source).

2. that year

   Tupac is nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Poetic Justice (no press source).

3. Nov 18

   Tupac is arrested in New York after a 19-year-old woman accuses him and three other men of sexual assault. Tupac denies the accusations.

4. Nov

   Filming of Above the Rim begins in New York (no press source).

1. that year

   Tupac has "THUG LIFE" tattooed across his stomach, writes a "Code of Thug Life" with Mutulu Shakur and forms the group Thug Life with Big Syke and Randy "Stretch" Walker.

2. Sep 22

   Vice President Dan Quayle says of 2Pacalypse Now: "It has no place in our society."

3. Aug 22

   At the Marin City Festival, six-year-old Qa'id Walker-Teal is killed by a bullet from a gun registered to Tupac. His stepbrother Mopreme is briefly arrested; no one is charged.

4. Aug 13

   The murdered trooper's widow sues Tupac and Time Warner (no press source).

1. Nov 12

   His debut album 2Pacalypse Now is released (peak: No. 64 on the Billboard 200).

2. Oct 17

   Two Oakland police officers stop Tupac for jaywalking; by his account they choke him and slam his head into the ground. He sues for $10 million; the case is settled for about $43,000.

3. that year

   Tupac signs a record deal with Interscope Records.

4. Jan

   Digital Underground release Same Song, with Tupac's first verse as 2Pac. The track appears on the EP This Is an EP Release and in the film Nothing But Trouble, in which the group makes a cameo.

1. that year

   On tour with Public Enemy, Tupac becomes friends with Treach of Naughty by Nature.

2. that year

   Atron Gregory, manager of Digital Underground, brings Tupac into the group as a roadie and dancer.

1. that year

   With Ray Luv he forms the group Strictly Dope and, as MC New York, records early songs including The Case of the Misplaced Mic and Let Knowledge Drop.

2. that year

   In Oakland Tupac joins Leila Steinberg's poetry classes. She becomes his mentor and first manager.

1. that year

   Afeni's crack addiction gets worse. Tupac moves out and stays with friends for a time.

2. that year

   Tupac attends Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley. He does not graduate but later earns a GED.

3. that year

   In the summer the family leaves Baltimore. Tupac and Sekyiwa move to Marin City near San Francisco; Afeni follows later.

4. May 11

   Mutulu Shakur is convicted under the federal racketeering (RICO) law and sentenced to 60 years.

1. that year

   Tupac is accepted as a theater student at the Baltimore School for the Arts. He studies acting, poetry, jazz and ballet and becomes friends with Jada Pinkett. With friends he forms the rap group Born Busy and performs as MC New York.

2. Feb 12

   Mutulu Shakur is arrested in Los Angeles.

3. Feb

   Lumumba Shakur, Afeni's former husband, whose surname Tupac carries, dies; genealogical records give 03.02.1986, the circumstances are not reliably documented.

1. that year

   Tupac attends ninth grade at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School.

2. Nov

   Tupac and Dana Smith win a youth rap contest held by the Enoch Pratt Free Library. Tupac's handwritten "Library Rap" is now in the library's special collections.

1. Sep

   On the school bus Tupac meets beatboxer Dana "Mouse" Smith; from then on they write rhymes together.

2. that year

   Afeni moves with Tupac and Sekyiwa to Baltimore, 3955 Greenmount Avenue in Pen Lucy. Tupac enters eighth grade at Roland Park Middle School.

3. that year

   At the Apollo Theater Tupac plays Travis Younger in A Raisin in the Sun, a benefit for Jesse Jackson's presidential campaign.

1. that year

   At twelve, Tupac joins the 127th Street Repertory Ensemble in Harlem.

1. July 23

   The FBI adds Mutulu Shakur to its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.

2. that year

   Afeni and Mutulu Shakur separate.

1. Oct 20

   A Brink's armored truck is robbed in Nanuet, New York; a guard and two police officers are killed. Mutulu Shakur is later convicted as one of the planners.

1. that year

   Tupac's half-sister Sekyiwa Shakur is born.

2. that year

   Afeni marries the activist and acupuncturist Mutulu Shakur. His son Maurice Harding, later known as Mopreme Shakur, becomes Tupac's stepbrother.

1. May 2

   Zayd Malik Shakur, a Panther and the brother of Afeni's former husband Lumumba, is killed in a shootout with police on the New Jersey Turnpike; Assata Shakur is seriously wounded.

1. that year

   Afeni renames her son Tupac Amaru Shakur, after the Peruvian rebel Túpac Amaru II. (Names and aliases)

1. that year

   Afeni's marriage to Lumumba Shakur ends shortly after the birth.