A woman with the same name as the late famed rapper and actor Tupac Shakur was arrested Tuesday in Miami-Dade County on a battery charge after she allegedly attacked a man with a baseball bat.
The 34-year-old woman, Tupac Amaru Shakur, was arrested and is being held on one count of aggravated battery on a person over the age of 65, jail records showed.
The female Shakur was being held on a $10,000 bond.
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The incident happened on a bench outside Hialeah Hospital in the 600 block of E. 25th Street.
According to an arrest report, a man said he was sitting on the bench when Shakur came up and started hitting him with a baseball bat.
The man was able to take the bat away and Shakur ran into the hospital, the report said. The man suffered several lacerations in the attack.
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Shakur told hospital security that a man had been hitting her with a bat, but security cameras captured her hitting the man with the bat, the report said.
Wednesday marks the 26th anniversary of the day the rapper Shakur — who sold over 75 million albums during his career — was shot while sitting in a car in Las Vegas, Nevada. He died six days later at the age of 25.
