Tupac Is Not Alive: Viral Media Gone Haywire

Tupac is dead – but due to the viral nature of news coverage on the internet, this week millions may question that fact. This story begins with a headline that read "Dying LVMPD officer says 2Pac paid him 1.5 million dollars to help 2Pac fake his death" originating at a website by the name of DailyMediaBuzz. This website produces fake news – there is no legitimacy to this story in the least. But that's not stopping news sources like The Daily Mirror, who appear to have no qualms with producing a story they know may be entirely falsified.

The original story – and subsequent blind bits of coverage, suggest that the man in the image below is a retired Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officer. They say this "officer" confessed on his death bed that 2Pac faked his death and payed as many as 30 people to work in conspiracy to cover it up.

At some point in this giant game of telephone, one source or another begins to suggest that Suge Knight took part in the murder. Not that we know one way or the other of Knights involvement in 2Pac's actual death, but Knight's name does not appear in the original story about this cover-up this week.

Above you'll see a screenshot from the Mirror of a paragraph where they acknowledge the source (without naming it), effectively nullifying the validity of their story as they do so. No retraction has been added to the post at the time of this article's release.

The story also says a 2Pac body double was purchased for $50,000, and that "Myers" receives $10k every month in an offshore bank account.

The problem here is the photo of the officer. This photo is not a police officer, but a man who was part of another odd "death" case not too long ago.

His name was Walter Williams, and he "died" twice.

According to The Independent, Williams died on the 11th of March, 2014. Two weeks earlier, Williams was pronounced dead in his home, zipped up in a body bag, and brought to the morgue – he awoke as Porter and Sons Funeral Home employees began preparing him for embalming.

Until a time at which the dead may rise, you're going to have to rely on the holographic 2Pac – which isn't the worst thing in the world, considering.