The shooting occurred about two hours after a fight involving Shakur and Knight in the lobby of the MGM Grand Hotel, an incident that ultimately brought Knight, who was 31 years old, to 'hotel time, to be sentenced to nine years in prison for violating his parole. Six days later Shakur died from injuries sustained in the shooting. He was 25 years old when he died. No arrests were ever made. Furthermore, despite calls within the hip-hop community to stop the violence, Notorious B.I.G. was also brutally murdered in the same way Tupac died six months later while being stopped at a red light. (Rolling Stone,