Suge Knight claims his ex wife and former security chief ‘killed Tupac Shakur and insists HE was the real target of shooting’
RAP mogul Suge Knight has reportedly claimed Death Row Records' former security chief and his ex wife killed Tupac while insisting HE was the real target of the infamous shooting in 1996.
Knight's lawyer Thaddeus Culpepper is said to have written a signed affidavit stating '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.'
Suge Knight is said to have spoken out after hearing the 'salient points' of a new documentary Tupac Assassination: Battle for Compton.
"When our book came out and we were working on the movie, we gave the salient points of the book to Thaddeus Culpepper, who read them to Suge Knight," said co-director Richard Bond.
A source then claims Knight backed the theories in the documentary and even tasked his own investigators to probe them, .
The former CEO of Death Row Records was with Tupac the night he was killed in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in 1996.
Knight, who is currently behind bars awaiting a separate murder trial, has never revealed the identity of the the person he believed was responsible for his friend's death.
Wright Jr responded to previous claims he was the killer by 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 and Frank Alexander.
"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."
Knight's relationship with Sharitha Golden, the mother of his first child, was troubled from the start.
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 £500,000 in unpaid child support.
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