In einem Interview mit vegasseven.com hat der Polizist, der nach den tödlichen Schüssen auf 2Pac im September 1996 in Las Vegas als erstes am Ort des Geschehens war, die offenbar letzten Worte des Rappers verraten. Neben anderen interessanten Details des Abends, beschreibt der inzwischen pensionierte Chris Carroll die Situation, nachdem er 2Pac aus seinem Wagen befreite wie folgt:
“So I’m looking at Tupac, and he’s trying to yell back at Suge, and I’m asking him, ‘Who shot you? What happened? Who did it?‘ And he was just kind of ignoring me. He was making eye contact with me here and there, but he’s trying to yell at Suge. And I kept asking over and over, ‘Who did this? Who shot you?‘ And he basically kept ignoring me. And then I saw in his face, in his movements, all of a sudden in the snap of a finger, he changed. And he went from struggling to speak, being noncooperative, to an ‘I’m at peace‘ type of thing. Just like that.
“He went from fighting to ‘I can’t do it.‘ And when he made that transition, he looked at me, and he’s looking right in my eyes. And that’s when I looked at him and said one more time, ‘Who shot you?‘ He looked at me and he took a breath to get the words out, and he opened his mouth, and I thought I was actually going to get some cooperation. And then the words came out: ‘Fuck you.‘„
Anschließend sei 2Pac bewusstlos geworden und in ein Krankenhaus gebracht worden, wo er operiert wurde. Anschließend sei er in ein Koma gefallen und habe vor seinem Tod nie wieder ein Wort gesprochen.
Warum er dies erst jetzt öffentlich mache begründete er u.a. damit, dass er 2Pac nicht zu einem Märtyrer machen wollte:
“The second main reason I didn’t go public with this before is I didn’t want Tupac to be a martyr or hero because he told the cops ‘Fuck you.‘ I didn’t want to give him that. I didn’t want people to say, ‘Even when the chips were down, his life on the line, he still said “Fuck you,†he still wouldn’t talk to the police.‘ I didn’t want him to be a hero for that. And now enough time has passed, well, he’s a martyr anyway; he’s viewed as a hero anyway. My story, at this point, isn’t going to change any of that.â€
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