Tupac Shakur trial: Rap legend's close friend reveals where shooter was sitting
He was just a vehicle behind Tupac Shakur’s car before the shooting
Malcolm Greenidge was just a vehicle behind his childhood friend Tupac Shakur when the rapper was gunned down.
In the second week of trial, he took to the stand to recall details of the chilling shooting, which prosecutors said he did not want to share; however, the court ordered him to.
Describing Shakur as a “big brother”, Greenidge said he had been with the late rapper and her fiancé Kidada Jones on fateful September 7, 1996.
That day, the rap legend had an altercation with Orlando Anderson at the MGM Grand, where he said he was not present.
Later, however, he joined him and Suge Knight on the way to Club 662.
In his car just behind Shakur, Greenidge said he was accompanied by Frank Alexander, a security guard, and members of his rap group Outlawz.
“We were at a light,” the witness remembered, recalling a car pulling up next to his mentor’s vehicle.
It was a light-coloured, four-door Cadillac, he recounted.
“Mr Shakur and Knight were talking to some young ladies… when those young ladies pulled off, another car pulled up and started shooting at Mr Shakur and Mr Knight.”
Then, moments later, chaos descended.
“The shots came from inside the vehicle,” Greenidge recalled. “It was from the back seat.”
All Greenidge saw was an arm holding the gun while sitting in the back seat, and the gunman, he said, appeared to be African-American.
In shock, he said he got out to check on Shakur, but Knight, who was driving, made a U-turn and stopped at an intersection.
Both got out of the vehicle, and Greenidge and others followed him.
"Get on the ground, they’re going to shoot you," Tupac allegedly told him when he approached him.
A shotgun was pointed at his face; what Greenidge found was a police officer right at his face, leading him to get on the ground instantly.
Amid the chaos, he testified it was unclear to him at the moment about Shakur's injuries; however, he said he saw blood gushing from Knight's head.
The testimony comes in the second week of Shakur's trial, where Duane "Keefe D" Davis was accused of providing an arm to the group that killed the rap legend.
