Who is Chris Carroll?

 

Who is Chris Carroll?

 

A footnote and victim of the USA’s obsession with conspiracy masturbation. This story isn’t even going to be mostly about him, it’s mostly about another guy, Duane Keith Davis AKA “Keefe D.” It’s going to be a long and bloody tale, full of famously unsolved homicides and seemingly well-grounded charges of real conspiracy, before I ever get to how Carroll has been abused.

 

Davis is a member of the notorious criminal gang the Crips in California and his nephew and fellow gangster was Orlando Anderson. Davis also had famous friends, he’d grown up with rap-band N.W.A. frontman Eric Lynn Wright AKA “Easy-E” and was close with rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs. Meanwhile his nephew, Anderson, was friends with rapper Christopher George Latore Wallace AKA “Notorious B.I.G.” Also important to this story is another rapper, Tupac Shakur, and his music producer, Marion Hugh Knight Jr. AKA “Suge Knight,” these last two were involved in public feuds with both Combs and Wallace.

 

Each of the seven persons mentioned in the above paragraph had criminal records, four are dead, three of those deaths were homicides. Five of the seven (both the living and the dead) have been suspected of committing or contracting homicides. Before this story is over, other murder victims will become part of it. Most of the murdered were dead before age thirty, none reached the age forty.

 

Combs’ bitter feud with fellow rapper Tupac Shakur is the stuff of legend, it was publicized as a war between musical camps on the east coast (Combs) and the west coast (Shakur, a native New Yorker who moved to California, and Knight). It is commonly seen as the motive behind Shakur’s still-unsolved murder.

 

Shakur and music producer Knight had mocked both Combs and Wallace in their songs, and Shakur later accused Combs, Wallace, and music executive James Rosemond AKA “Jimmy Henchman” of hiring hitman in a shooting Shakur survived in 1994 (this was the second assassination attempt Shakur had survived in a less-than two-year period).

 

The circumstances of the 1994 shooting were that Rosemond had offered Shakur money to do one night’s work at a recording studio. Rosemond, Combs, and Wallace were all present at the studio when Shakur and his entourage were ambushed in the building’s lobby.

 

Combs and Wallace always denied any involvement, but there is a case to be made against Rosemond. In 2004, an already incarcerated murderer confessed to being Shakur’s attempted hitman and identified Rosemond as paying for the hit but didn’t implicate the other two. Rosemond himself was a gangster and much as an executive and tried in 2012 and 2014 for an array of crimes including an unrelated murder-for-hire conspiracy. He was found not guilty for the murder, but the rest of it got him a life sentence.

 

Davis actively fed these rumors surrounding Combs involvement in Shakur’s 1996 murder, saying Combs put a million-dollar bounty on Shakur’s head.

 

But regarding Shakur’s murder the was always a better suspect than Combs, and that was Davis’s nephew Anderson. True, there is some testimony that Combs paid Anderson to be his hitman, but the circumstances of the crime seem to undercut that theory.

 

Anderson had means, motive, and opportunity, but the Las Vegas Police ignored him as a suspect, even publicly poo-pooed the idea, all the while failing to follow up obvious leads in a high-profile murder. Most notably they dragged their feet in interviewing a vital witness, the rapper Yafeu Akiyele Fula AKA “Yaki Kadaafi,” who said he had clearly seen the shooter’s face. Before the Detectives got around to him, Fula was murdered in New Jersey. His killer was Rashad Beale, brother of Shakur’s friend and fellow rapper Mutah Wassin Shabazz Beale AKA “Napoleon,” and this homicide seems not connected to him being a witness in Shakur’s death, but a product of feud between the Fula and Beale’s family. That was a full two months after Shakur’s murder.

 

Regarding Anderson’s means: that is demonstrated by Anderson’s criminal past; Shakur’s murder was not the only gun homicide he was a suspect it.

 

Anderson’s motive: that is related to a feud he reportedly triggered with Shakur and Knight by committing a criminal prank on them; he stole a Death Row medallion from one of them. The act was a show of disrespect and was part of the provocations going back-and-forth between the Crips gang and the Death Row record company. Death Row was closely associated with the Bloods gang who frequently warred with the Crips.

 

Anderson’s opportunity and further motive: That came on the night of Shakur’s 1996 murder. There was an accidental encounter between Anderson and Shakur in the lobby of a Las Vegas Hotel (Las Vegas is neither man’s home city, they resided in Compton and Los Angeles, California, respectively). A member of Shakur’s entourage recognized Anderson, who was alone at the time. Shakur and four others viciously, publicly, beat Anderson.

 

Shakur was murdered in a drive-by shooting three hours later. Knight was also wounded. Shakur was part of a ten-car entourage, so there were a host of potential witnesses, but only Fula, in the car behind Shakur’s, claimed to have seen anything of value and, as I said, the Police never interviewed him.

 

As the originally ignored Anderson became the prime suspect, the narrative starts shaping itself into a shooting that evolved out of a random encounter, which seriously undercuts any theories of elaborate conspiracy; it looks like Shakur’s death was trigged by a trivial and juvenile bit of chest-pounding. It also indicates that the case could’ve been closed in less that a week with more professional Police work. Instead, it’s still an open almost thirty-years later.

 

Though maybe not elaborate, the murder was a still a conspiracy. Shakur’s shooter was in a car driven by another, and some have placed as many as four people in the vehicle used in the murder. All of those in the car would be accomplices or accessories.

 

1997, Anderson sued Shakur’s estate, Knight, and Death Row Records because of the beat-down. Shakur’s mother responded by publicly identifying both Anderson and his uncle Davis as her son’s killers in a wrongful death civil suit.

 

Wallace was also immediately implicated is Shakur’s murder. His motives were similar Combs, and like Combs he had the resources to hire a hitman. The arguments that Wallace was involved are in fact almost identical to the arguments that Combs was involved, only changing who took out the contract. And again, but both theories are problematic in the face that the killing appears to have emerged out of a random encounter.

 

Wallace denied and involvement, offered an alibi for the night, but was also fearful that him being under suspicion was enough to make him a victim of a retaliatory killing.

 

Wallace himself was murdered about six months after Shakur in Los Angeles under strikingly similar circumstances. That case also remains unsolved, and Police mishandling contributed, and, in this case, there is evidence of a deliberate coverup by Los Angeles police. Overtime, Knight was reliably linked to corrupt Cops who eventually went to jail for bank robbery, so there are theories that Knight ordered the hit, and he's also rumored to be involved in numerous other contract killings plus had his own violent criminal record. On the other hand, there are other, unrelated, suspects as well.

 

1998, Death Row settled the case with Anderson. The lawsuit settlement was somewhat less than $80,000 to Anderson but he never got to spend a penny. Mere hours later Anderson was killed in a gunfight in Compton. The timing seems wildly suspicious, but the gunfight was triggered by a random encounter between Anderson and two members of a rival drug-gang. The shoot-out unfolded in a public place, lots of witnesses, and Anderson himself provoked the confrontation.

 

I’m uncertain when Davis started implicating Combs in the killing of Shakur, but in 2011, Davis made the claim on tape. This time he implicates not only Combs, though he admits Combs was not in the shooter’s car but himself and his nephew, Anderson. He placed himself in the front seat and his Anderson, in the back seat, the seat the shooter sat in. Everyone in that car has to be viewed as an accomplice or an accessory, but by that time, every one of the people in the car were dead except Davis. He made these claims on tape repeatedly for the rest of the decade, he even wrote a book about it, but he was not arrested after these incriminating statements.

 

So back to Chris Carroll:

 

In 1996 he was a Las Vegas Police Officer, nearing retirement and a first responder to Shakur's shooting. He tried to aide Shakur, who slipped into unconsciousness in Carroll's arms. Shakur lingered six days before death. Carroll no role in the botched investigation, he left the real story when the ambulance pulled away.

 

He’s now long retired but ever since he has been harassed by conspiracy masturbators, including some who have obtained his home phone number. They accuse him of killing Shakur and their wild allegations do not fit anywhere into the narrative I just provided you. Likely, he’s only drawn their attention because he was a Cop in the right place at the wrong time. Essentially every person mentioned above, living and dead, expressed public hostility towards Police in general, and two separate Police Departments in two separate States bungled two of the above referenced homicides (one seems to have been bungled deliberately), so Carroll was in the crosshairs by prejudice and others' wrongdoing.

 

The harassment has waxed and waned over the decades but picked up again this week. You see, after Davis being publicly outed as a suspect nearly three decades ago and making incriminating statements repeatedly for more than a decade himself, Police have finally executed a search warrant on Davis’s wife’s home.

 

There’s now a false internet rumor that Carrol’s home was searched as well.