Friends of Lucas County Seniors Â· September 23, 2014 Â· You are invited to meet us at the Original Tony Packoâs on the East Side at 1902 Front Street, Toledo, Ohio, tomorrow for a great meal and to support Senior Citizens.
Tupac Shakur would have been 45 years old had he survived the September 1996 drive-by shooting in Las Vegas. He died at 25 with no children â once saying he feared bringing a son or daughter into âsuch a corrupt world.â The rapperâs deep devotion to kids, however, was evident both in and out of the recording studio.
In Tupac's world, art and reality became tragically blurred, culminating with his 1996 murder in Las Vegas. Shakur was the son of Black Panther Party members Billy Garland and Afeni Shakur (Shakur is Arabic for thankful to God), who was in jail (and later acquitted) on bombing charges while pregnant with him. Sometime after his birth, he was named Tupac Amaru, for an Incan chief whose name translates as shining serpent..