Stretch (Live Squad) is killed

Why it matters

Randy Walker, who recorded as Stretch in the Queens group Live Squad, was shot and killed in a drive-by in Queens on November 30, 1995. He was 27. The case has never been solved. The date is the part that has fed twenty-nine years of speculation. Stretch died exactly one year, to the day, after Tupac Shakur was shot at Quad Recording Studios. Stretch had been with Tupac at Quad. Stretch had walked out of the studios alive that night. Stretch had also, in the year between the two shootings, drifted away from Tupac for reasons that have never been publicly clarified; Tupac in interviews from prison made critical remarks about Stretch. The exact-anniversary coincidence is so improbable that almost everybody who has written about either shooting since has at least entertained the possibility that the second shooting was related to the first. There is no public evidence of a connection. There is also no public evidence that there isn't one. Stretch was 27. He was a member of one of the most underrated Queens crews of the early 90s (Live Squad, with brothers Majesty and KL). You should remember him for that, separate from the conspiracy material.