Suge Knight claims his ex-wife and former Death Row Records security killed Tupac Shakur

                           

Marion 'Suge' Knight claims that his ex-wife and former Death Row Records security chief Reggie White Jr killed Tupac Shakur, and insists he was the real target of the 1996 drive-by. 

Suge's attorney Thaddeus Culpepper wrote in a signed affidavit, that 'Knight has known for many years that Reggie Wright Jr. and his ex-wife Sharitha were behind the murder of Tupac and attempted murder of Knight.'

He added that Knight also had alleged details of Wright's involvement in the Bigge Smalls murder case.

The rapper, who until now has always refused to identify the shooter 

White Jr responded to the claims in 2015, after Poole's death, to AllHipHop, pointing out that several people that had accused him of Tupac's murder had died in the past decade.

They include the late rapper's ex-bodyguards Michael Moore, Frank Alexander and Poole.

'I believe in karma,' he said. 'All these people are dropping dead. I keep telling people God don't like ugly. I hope people learn a lesson from this.'

Wright warned that the next person could be Tupac Assassination co-director Bond. 

'The next person is probably going to be R.J. Bond. I ain't predicting no death on anybody, but they better get their selves right,' he said. 'They better stop with all this bullcrap they've been promoting, because they're all dying like flies around here.'

Suge's marriage to Sharitha Golden, the mother of his first child, was tumultuous at best.

Just two years before their wedding in November 1989, Sharitha had obtained a restraining order against Suge. 

They later reconciled and wed, but got divorced the following year with Sharitha demanding her ex pay $735,000 in unpaid child support. 

                             

Tupac's last public photograph was taken as he was riding in the car with Death Row Records co-founder Suge on September 7, 1996, in Las Vegas.

The pair had just left a Mike Tyson fight held at the MGM Grand, when the 25-year-old rapper was shot as he stood up through the sunroof to talk to a group of women while the car was stopped at a traffic light.

Shakur was hit four times - twice in the chest, once in the arm, and once in the leg.

He eventually died six days later on September 13.

Bond believes Suge, who is behind bars awaiting a separate murder trial, is ready to make a statement about Tupac's murder because it proves that he has been a target of gangs out to get him for years.

Suge, who was shot multiple times in 2014, has been in jail since his arrest for mowing down two men in a burger stand parking lot in Compton in 2015, killing businessman and friend Terry Carter and injuring Cle 'Bone' Sloan.

The two men had been working as security on the location set for the NWA movie Straight Outta Compton and had got into a dispute with Knight earlier in the day.

Prosecutors have charged Knight with murder and attempted murder. He has pleaded not guilty and claims he accidentally struck Carter as he fled the scene in fear for his life suspecting an armed ambush. 

Bond and Carlin insist Knight was a victim in Vegas, which could be evidence of his that he was also telling the truth about his 2014 shooting at One Oak and in the Compton case he is only trial for. 

'The hope is Knight's confirmation of the story laid out in Compton (the film) may put a final stamp to close this mystery, after 20 years.'

The black car in which Tupac and record label boss Suge Knight were driving in when the attack by an unknown gunmen occurred