Sheryl McCollum, Tupac Shakur crime scene investigator, has alleged that she believes an incident involving Sean “Diddy” Combs, the 1994 shooting, is connected to the case and proves that someone close to him “knew about his whereabouts.”

McCollum thinks both the rapper’s 1996 murder and his previous shooting in 1994 could be related. She worked on Tupac’s case in 1996 and has shared her insight into the incidents surrounding his killing in a new TV appearance.

McCollum said: “This whole thing to me started in 1994 – the first time Tupac is shot.” Tupac was famously injured in a robbery gone wrong at New York City’s Quad Studios in Times Square, with Diddy also in the studio at the time with his entourage of 40 people.

Speaking to NewsNation she continued: “You ain’t gotta shoot somebody five times to take their jewelry and their money. Sean ‘Puffy’ Combs and his entourage of 40? Unharmed. Unthreatened. How does that make sense to anybody that one person is going to be robbed and not the other 40? Who would have had more money and jewelry? Forty.” However, this theory of hers is her own, and Diddy and his crew have not been officially charged in this case.

Following the shooting, Tupac himself laid the blame at Diddy’s door after he claimed that he believed Biggie Smalls (the Notorious B.I.G.), Diddy’s Bad Boy Records label and Combs directly, of having played a part in him getting shot because of how they reacted when he entered the studio with blood on him.

He told Vibe magazine in 1995: “Nobody approached me. I noticed that nobody would look at me. Puffy was standing back too. I knew Puffy. He knew how much stuff I had done for Biggie before he came out.”

Two years on from that incident Tupac was brutally murdered in a drive-by shooting while leaving a boxing match at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. McCollum continued: “Both times that Tupac Shakur is shot, he is trapped in something.”

She continued: “He’s trapped in an elevator, and then he’s trapped in a car. There is literally nowhere to run. Both scenes though, ironically, don’t have video footage. To me, this signifies somebody close to him knows his whereabouts on that day, that time and that location.”

The investigator concluded: “That, to me, shrinks your suspect pool pretty good. Only a handful of people would have known where he was on both of those days.”

Diddy has strongly denied any link to Tupac’s death and has never been implicated by the police or charged. Biggie meanwhile was also gunned down in 1997 with the case never finding any resolution. Back in July, Page Six reported that Tupac’s family were considering filing a wrongful death lawsuit against Combs.

In his statement from 2008, Diddy declared, “The story is a lie. Neither I nor the late Notorious B.I.G. had any knowledge of any attack on Tupac before, during, or after it happened.”

An insider said at the time “People from Diddy’s past are coming forward and providing info,” and the family hired big shot lawyer Alex Spiro – who has worked for Elon Musk and Megan Thee Stallion – to investigate. The decision came after it was alleged in a throwback interview by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police from 2009 with Duane “Keefe D” Davis – who is currently charged with Tupac’s murder – that Diddy put a $1 million hit on Tupac. He is set to face trial on November 4.