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## Video: Former Gang Leader Pleads Not Guilty to Orchestrating Shooting That Killed Tupac Shakur in 1996

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_Published 2023-11-02. A former Southern California street gang leader pleaded not guilty Thursday to orchestrating a drive-by shooting that killed Tupac Shakur in 1996 in Las Vegas._


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