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On September 7, 1996, at approximately 11:15 pm, Tupac Shakur was struck by four of twelve or thirteen shots fired from one vehicle to the next in the middle of the street, with bullets hitting him in the chest, the pelvis, and his right hand and thigh. One of the rounds apparently ricocheted into Shakur's right lung.

He was taken to the University Medical Center, in and out of consciousness and was heavily sedated, breathing through a ventilator and respirator, placed on life support machines, and ultimately put into a barbiturate-induced coma after repeatedly trying to get out of the bed.

While in Critical Care Unit on the afternoon of September 13, 1996, Shakur died of internal bleeding; doctors attempted to revive him but could not impede his hemorrhaging. His mother, Afeni, made the decision to tell the doctors to stop.

He was pronounced dead at 4:03 pm(PDT). The official cause of death was noted as respiratory failure and cardiopulmonary arrest in connection with multiple gunshot wounds.

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