Usually the charges of robberies die down in a day or two, and the entire story becomes history no matter who has been murdered, be it a politician or some popular Hot Fuzz celebrity. But recently we came across an aberration of this norm; Dexter Isaac, the convict behind the 1994 robbery and shooting of the famous rap star Tupac Shakur, decided to step forward into the limelight after some 17 years or so, of his proven crime. How surprising, and well, a bit mysterious at the same time, is that??

But the tale is not this simple. He now has a new twist to the story of the beloved Tupac’s death. He says that it wasn’t his personal will or any enmity against the star, but his act was backed up by a third party; James “Jimmy Henchman” Rosemond. I’m sure that not everyone is familiar with this name; James is the CEO of Czar Entertainment who manages Mike Tyson and Sean Kingston.

Back then, James paid Dexter an estimate of $2500 along with some other perks including whatever he would steal from Tupac (except for one diamond ring which he wanted to keep for his girlfriend), to mug him. Obviously it was hard to say NO to this deal, so Dexter perpetrated this hideous crime which he repents for now, sitting behind bars, completing his life incarceration punishment.

The recent happenings regarding this case are getting a little messy, as James Rosemond’s lawyer has defended him by saying, “It’s a flat out lie.” He continued, in his interview with the press, “Dexter Isaac is not claiming this 17 years later to clear his conscience. He’s doing it because he’s told anybody who will listen he doesn’t want to die in prison. He has kids and wants to work off his sentence. He can’t be trusted.”

On the contrary, Dexter told the media that he was coming out on the story after such a long time because now he wanted to apologize to Tupac’s family. “I want to apologize to (Shakur’s) family and for the mistake I did for that sucker,” Dexter said from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.”I am trying to clean it up to give (Shakur’s and Biggie’s) mothers some closure.”

On his bed in a Manhattan hospital, after having 5 gunshots in his body on the 1994 robbery, Tupac said that he was suspicious of Christopher “Notorious B.I.G” Wallace of being involved in the incident and as a revenge, said that he had slept with Biggie’s wife, Faith Evans. The finger-pointing continued in the later years until his death, as Biggie did not spare Tupac in his songs.

1996 September, in 5 gunshots in Las Vegas, Tupac was shot. 6 days later, he died.