Orlando Tive "Baby Lane" Anderson (August 13, 1974 – May 29, 1998) was an American gang member suspected in the murder of Tupac Shakur.

[1] Detective Tim Brennan of the Compton Police Department filed an affidavit naming Anderson as a suspect; he denied involvement and was never charged.

Anderson attended Taft High School, where he was a conscientious student who passed his exams and received good grades.

According to BG Knocc Out in an interview with VladTV, Anderson escaped the worst of the beating by managing to cover his face during the attack.

[citation needed] Later that month, Las Vegas MPD homicide detective Lt. Larry Spinosa told the media, "At this point, Orlando Anderson is not a suspect in the shooting of Tupac Shakur.

The police also failed to follow up on a lead from a witness who had spotted a white Cadillac similar to the car from which the fatal shots were fired and in which the shooters escaped.

[citation needed] In October 2011, former LAPD Detective Greg Kading, a former investigator in the murder of Christopher "Biggie Smalls" Wallace, released a book alleging that Sean "Diddy" Combs commissioned Anderson's uncle, Duane "Keefe D" Davis, to kill Shakur, as well as Knight, for $1 million.

[citation needed] On September 29, 2023, it was announced that a grand jury had indicted Duane Keith "Keefe D" Davis on charges of murder with the use of a deadly weapon in connection with the killing of Shakur.

[17] In 2002, the Los Angeles Times published a two-part series by reporter Chuck Philips titled "Who Killed Tupac Shakur?"

The series indicated that "the shooting was carried out by a Compton gang called the South Side Crips to avenge the beating of one of its members by Shakur a few hours earlier.

In support of this, Wallace's family produced computerized invoices showing that he was working in a New York recording studio the night of the shooting.

[20] Times assistant managing editor Mark Duvoisin defended Philips' series, stating they were based on police affidavits and court documents as well as interviews with investigators, witnesses to the crime and members of the South Side Crips.

In recent years, however, archived letters of Scott's responses to readers show an evolution toward Anderson as a suspect and a dismissal of the Knight theory.

[3] Anderson was taken to Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in Willowbrook, California, but was pronounced dead from a gunshot wound to the chest shortly after.

[3] Detective Brennan later stated Anderson's murder was due to a disagreement over drug money with a rival gang and was not related to the Shakur case.