Read Russell Poole's final words on #Tupac & #Biggie murders
Michael Douglas Carlin
MichaelDouglasCarlin@gmail.com
Police Chief Charlie Beck
100 West 1st Street Room
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Commissioner Steve Soboroff
Commissioner Paula Madison
Commissioner Sandra Figueroa-Villa
Commissioner Kathleen Kim
Commissioner Robert M. Saltzman
Mayor Eric Garcetti
Rick Jacobs
Chief of Staff for Eric Garcetti
District Attorney Jackie Lacey
U.S. Attorney Eileen Maura Decker
Civil Rights Attorney Connie Rice
July 8, 2015
Dear Chief Beck,
Re: LAPD Leak of
Confession Letter in the Murder of Rapper Tupac Shakur
IA: CF NO 14-001995
I wish the circumstances behind
writing this letter were different. I was in the audience at the downtown
Rotary meeting where you filled-in for Connie Rice, while she was delayed and I
became a big fan of the transformation inside of LAPD that you and Connie have
led. I have often said that meeting was the single best Rotary meeting I ever
attended – keep in mind that I was a Rotarian for a decade.
I am writing to you today about the leak of the Confession Letter to the murder
of rapper Tupac Shakur and attempted murder of Suge Knight, given to LAPD’s
Deputy Chief Kirk Albanese, Commander Kevin McCarthy, Captain William Hayes and
Detective Daryn Dupree on June 24th, 2014. The first leak occurred on July 7,
2014 by Daryn Dupree’s former partner, Greg Kading. The full letter appeared on
August 18th, 2014 and six days later Suge Knight was shot in a West Hollywood
nightclub by shooters that said as they shot, “you killed Tupac.”
We have LAPD cold on the leak. RJ Bond placed a special border on the
letter and when the leaked letter appeared it was with that special border.
A year ago, Russell Poole and RJ Bond filed IA: CF NO 14-001995 – an Internal
Affairs Complaint about the letter.
I wrote to you on January 9th and June 28th and have not had a
response. I would request that you officially respond to this email and
certified letter to let me know the disposition of that investigation.
Many in the community have warned me that my life is now in danger. Recently
Reggie Wright Jr. threatened RJ Bond on a YouTube Interview. He said, “it’s not
over with me and Mister Bond… If I can take out Biggie or Tupac he shouldn’t be
no (sic) problem.” RJ Bond, Russell Poole, and I were not the source of the
information that blames Reggie Wright for the killing of Tupac Shakur – LAPD
was the clear source of this information when they leaked the Confession Letter
and thereby derailed the investigation.
Reggie Wright Jr. is listed by the
City of Los Angeles and the LAPD as a suspect in the murder of Christopher
Wallace in court documents I obtained in the Wallace Civil Trial and he is the
suspect the Confession Letter says plotted the hit on Suge Knight and Tupac
Shakur. He also happens to be a friend of Greg Kading who again is Daryn
Dupree’s ex-partner. Reggie Wright Jr. is a former Compton Police Officer and
son of former Compton Police Officer and LA County Sheriff, Reggie Wright Sr.
Many people fear Reggie Wright Jr. because of his strong ties into law
enforcement (he hired all the off-duty police for Death Row Records).
It gets even more convoluted as Cle “Bone” Sloan – the star witness in the
current Suge Knight murder trial worked with Daryn Dupree on the movie “End of
Watch.” Why was someone so connected to suspects, in charge of the Tupac and
Biggie cases? Was this just an oversight? Or was it intentional?
Kevin Hackie says he handed the Glock .40 that had been ballistics tested by
the FBI to Reggie Wright Jr. and he further says that gun was subsequently used
to kill rapper Tupac Shakur. Bodyguard Michael Moore was taken off of guarding
Tupac Shakur the night of the shooting because he refused Reggie’s order to
disarm. Reggie kept Moore close to him at the time of the shooting and Moore
tells of hearing, “Got ‘em” come over Wright’s radio when Tupac Shakur and Suge
Knight were shot. The letter supports this evidence and tells that the
triggerman, Lil ½ Dead (Donald Smith) had the motive of revenge as a reason to
kill Tupac Shakur. On Lil ½ Dead’s 2012 album cover for “Dead Serious” you can
see an image of the slain Tupac Shakur.
Let’s give LAPD the benefit of the doubt. If the Confession Letter was
inadvertently handed to a Detective not friendly with the suspect in the murder
it would have received a proper investigation. All of those allegedly involved
would have been pulled in for questioning and Chris Blatchford, who gave us the
letter, would have been contacted and interviewed about the origins of that
letter. Valuable time and opportunities have been lost because of the LAPD
leak. But there is still hope that LAPD will, in the end, do the right thing
even though it leads to further entanglements.
While pouring over the thousands of pages of case files, in writing the book,
Tupac:187, we uncovered that Officer Kevin Gaines (boyfriend of Sharitha Knight
who according to the author of the letter was also behind the murders) was on
special assignment for LAPD in Las Vegas on the night that Tupac and Suge were
shot. Frank Lyga has stated publicly that Kevin Gaines’ murder was a sanctioned
“hit” by LAPD. Clearly there were several LAPD Officers in Las Vegas that night
and uncovering LAPD involvement in the attempted murder of Suge Knight and
murder of Tupac Shakur could prove embarrassing to the department but leaking
the letter to avoid that embarrassment and covering up that leak will be far
more damaging.
We simply want the TRUTH wherever
that leads!
You were not the Police Chief during the Rampart Scandal
Era. Anything that was done then cannot be blamed on you. You have led a
sweeping transformation at LAPD and I applaud those efforts. It is now time for
total transparency in the leak of this Confession letter and it is time to
re-examine all of the corrupt officers during the Rampart era to air their
dirty laundry and if possible bring them to justice. If they participated in
the murders of Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace they should be held accountable.
If they participated in the attempted murder of Suge Knight they should be held
accountable. If there were sanctioned “hits” by LAPD officers everybody
involved should be held accountable.
Los Angeles is the most diverse community that has ever existed. Honor that
diversity by solving these crimes and bringing the perpetrators to justice.
Tupac and Biggie Fans constantly say that if the artists were white no stone
would have been unturned to bring the killers to justice. It is hard to argue
with those fans when it appears LAPD is stonewalling the investigation.
You are aware that the first civil trial in the wrongful death suit of
Christopher Wallace was ruled a mistrial when it was discovered that LAPD had
withheld thousands of pages of documents that implicated off duty LAPD officers
in the murder. You are aware the testimony of Ya May Cristle implicates LAPD in
destroying thousands of documents that point to LAPD involvement in the murder
of Christopher Wallace. You are also aware that the testimony of Waymond
Anderson that derailed the second civil trial was coerced as documents were
snuck in for him to review for the case and his testimony was coached. Are we
to believe that LAPD had no involvement in rapper Tupac Shakur’s Murder?
Please examine the clues we have uncovered since the publishing of the book and
the clues that continue to pour in. Please help protect those, whose lives are
now in danger because of the leak of the Confession Letter in the murder of
rapper Tupac Shakur. Many people who were witnesses or sought the truth are now
dead but the truth is seeping out and it cannot be stopped.
Both Russell Poole and I are your partners in bringing the killers to justice.
Russell has 19 years with the department and has a very good handle on what
steps are necessary to get indictments and convictions. We have posted a
snapshot of the relevant information here:
I have been told that the information in the murder of
Mickey Thompson was not near as compelling as this information and that led to
a conviction that withstood an appeal. These cases can be solved and the
perpetrators can be brought to justice.
I look forward to seeing this through to a positive
conclusion.
All the best,
Michael Douglas Carlin
Author – TUPAC:187
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