Reason Suge Knight Was Shot?

Suge was shot a staggering six times early Sunday morning at Chris Brown‘s pre-VMA party and a longtime friend who was by his side exclusively tells Radar it was gang members who accused the music producer of being responsible for Tupac Shakur‘s 1996 death.

“The argument started outside and then moved inside,” Knight’s longtime pal and business associate, Keith Middlebrook told Radar.



“Two gang members showed up and accused Suge of killing Tupac and called him a traitor. I think they were two guys from Compton. They yelled at Suge, ‘You killed Tupac!'”

According to Middlebrook, Knight told them to “f**k off” and it escalated to violence from there — nothing that unlike many reports, Brown was never the target.

“A gun was pulled out and there were about 10 to 12 shots fired,” Middlebrook says, who was outside at the valet when the shots were fired inside the club.

“I could hear bang, bang, bang over again loudly. Suge didn’t have a gun, but one of the gang members had a gun.”

When the commotion started, Middlebrook said he called Knight on the phone asking him where he was.

“He said, ‘I’m inside. Dude got me,’” Middlebrook revealed.

“I told him to come outside and that’s when cops got to him. Suge came out holding his stomach and I was about 40 feet way and then the ambulance came to take him away.”

 Two days after Knight was shot six times in a VMA party melee, the rapper’s hospital room in the intensive care unit at Cedars Sinai is under police protection.

 “Cedars has also beefed up their own security detail and are working with cops,” according to the insider. “Staffers have been told to report anything suspicious right away.”

Culled from Radar Online