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Shakur’s injuries carry high death ratpd
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The record
executive who was with Tupac
Shakur when the multimillion
selling rapper was shot has failed
to show up for police questioning.
Shakur, 25, remained in critical
condition and on life support at
University Medical Center with
four gunshot wounds. His right
lung was removed in one of two
operations Sunday.
The rapper was originally given
a 50-50 chance, but a University
Medical Center doctor said
Tuesday that eight of 10 patients
die from the combination of such
serious chest wounds and the
removal of a lung.
“It’s a very fatal injury,” Dr.
John Fildes, chairman of the hos
pital’s trauma unit, told the New
York Daily News for a story pub
lished today.
“Statistically, it carries a very
high mortality rate,” Fildes said.
“A patient may die from lack of
oxygen or may bleed to death in
the chest.”
Police say they are frustrated
by a lack of cooperation from
Shakur’s entourage, many of
whom witnessed the shooting.
Marion “Suge” Knight had
agreed to talk to police investigat
ing the Saturday night shooting,
but didn’t appear Monday or
Tuesday, police said.
Knight, chairman of Los
Angeles-based Death Row
Records, was released from the
hospital Sunday after being treat
ed for a head wound he suffered
in the attack.
“We’ve had contact with his
attorney, but as of yet haven’t seen
him,” Sgt. Kevin Manning said
late Tuesday.
Shakur, who has a history of vio
lence and run-ins with the law, was
a passenger in a car driven by
Knight late Saturday when a white
Cadillac with four men inside pulled
up and someone opened fire. The
gangsta rapper was hit four times, at
least twice in the chest.
In November 1994, Shakur
was shot five times by robbers
in the lobby of a New York City
recording studio. He lost
$40,000 worth of jewelry.
Shakur, who starred opposite
Janet Jackson in the movie Poetic
Justice, has been working on
another film, Gridlock. His latest
album, All Eyez On Me, has sold at
least 5 million copies.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Edgar Allan Poe didn’t
die drunk in a Baltimore gutter, according to
the first scientific study of the writer’s final
days. The tell-tale facts suggest rabies instead.
Dr. R. Michael Benitez, who practices medi
cine a mere block from the writer’s grave, says
it’s true that Poe was seen in a bar on Lombard
Street on an election day dreary in October
1849, delirious and possibly wearing somebody
else’s soiled clothes. But Poe wasn’t drunk.
“I think Poe is much maligned in that
respect,” said Benitez, an assistant professor
at the University of Maryland Medical Center.
He describes Poe’s last days in a medical
horror story as dramatic as the writer’s most
gruesome tales.
The author of “The Raven” and “The
Murders in the Rue Morgue” entered the hos
pital comatose, but by the next day was per
spiring heavily, hallucinating and shouting at
imaginary companions. The day after that, he
seemed better but couldn’t remember falling
ill. On his fourth day at Washington College
Hospital, Poe again grew confused and bel
ligerent, then quieted down and died.
That’s a classic case of rabies, said Benitez,
whose diagnosis appears in the September
issue of .the Maryland Medical Journal. And
there are other clues, too.
During the brief period when he was calm
and awake, Poe refused alcohol and could drink
water only with great difficulty. Rabies victims
frequently exhibit hydrophobia, or fear of water,
because it’s painful for them to swallow.
Although there’s no evidence that a rabid
animal bit Poe in the days before he suc
cumbed, that doesn’t cast much doubt on
Benitez’ theory. About a quarter of rabies vic
tims can’t remember being bitten at all. And
once a person is infected, the symptoms of
rabies can take up to a year to appear.
But once the symptoms do show up, rabies
is a swift and brutal killer. Most patients die
within a few days.
Poe “had all the features of encephalitic
rabies,” said Dr. Henry Wilde, who frequently
treats rabies at Chulalonkorn University
Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand.
Although it has been well-established that
Poe died in the hospital, legend has it he suc
cumbed in the gutter, a victim of his debauched
ways. The legend may have been fostered by his
doctor, who in later years became a temperance
advocate and changed the details to make an
object lesson of Poe’s death.
Poe scholars welcomed the diagnosis as the
first scientifically valid assessment of Poe’s
death. Jeff Jerome, curator of the Edgar Allan
Poe House and Museum in Baltimore, said he
has heard dozens of wild tales, but “almost
everyone who has come forth with a theory
has offered no proof.”
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Jerome said.
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stayed clear of the bottle.
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