10 Musicians Who Survived Assassination Attempts
7. Tupac Shakur
As previously mentioned, Tupac was killed in a drive-by assassination in 1996. But this wasn’t the first attempt on his life.
In 1994, Tupac was shot whilst in the lobby of a Manhattan recording studio. There were three shooters and the fact that Tupac’s Rolex was not taken point towards it being a targeted hit as opposed to attempted robbery, despite his chains and gun being taken by the shooters.
In 2011 a convicted murderer by the name of Dexter Isaacs claimed that he was hired by talent agent Jimmy Henchman to carry out the 1994 shooting. The 1996 murder of Tupac remains unsolved.