Tupac death- Police arrest man on suspicion of murder in 1996 drive-by shooting
A man was arrested on suspicion of Tupac Shakur's murder in Las Vegas on Friday.
The case has remained unsolved for the last 27 years, but this might be the big break people have been waiting for. Duane "Keefe D" Davis was arrested on suspicion of murder,
Davis has reportedly been on the investigators' radar for years. In 2019, he wrote a tell-all memoir titled Compton Street Legend, in which he admitted that he was in the Cadillac that Tupac's shooter was in.
On September 7, 1996, Tupac was in a BMW car that was driven by Marion "Suge" Knight, the founder of Death Row Records which was the record label Tupac was signed to. While at a red light near the Las Vegas strip, a white Cadillac drove up next to the car and fired into the BMW.
Davis admitted he was in the car when Tupac was shot (Getty Images)Tupac was shot multiple times and succumbed to his injuries a week later. The iconic rapper was only 25 years old at the time of his death.
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Davis' arrest comes two months after the Las Vegas police raided his wife's home in nearby Henderson, Nevada. On July 17, the raid was conducted and documents stated that items "concerning the murder of Tupac Shakur" were being searched for.
Reportedly, the police took computers, a cell phone, a computer hard drive, .40-caliber bullets, a Vibe Magazine that featured an article on Tupac, two "tubs containing photographs", and a copy of Davis' memoir. His book mentioned that he first confessed to being a witness to the murder in 2010 while being interrogated by federal and local authorities.
The rapper's murder has been unsolved since it occurred in 1996 (A Crollalanza/REX/Shutterstock)Davis was facing life in prison on drug charges and was cooperating with the police. "They promised they would shred the indictment and stop the grand jury if I helped them out," he wrote.
It wasn't until 2018 that Davis publicly admitted he was inside the Cadillac. After a cancer diagnosis, he spoke to BET and implicated his nephew, Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson as the shooter. Davis also said Tupac was shot after a brawl broke out in a casino between him, Anderson, Davis, and others.
Anderson has denied that he was involved in the shooting, but couldn't refute his uncle's words. He died in a shootout in Compton, California in 1998, two years after Tupac was murdered.
Greg Kading, a Los Angeles police detective who worked on Tupac's murder case, said in a previous interview that he wouldn't be surprised if Davis was arrested in connection to the murders. "People have been yearning for him to be arrested for a long time," he said, "It's never been unsolved in our minds. It's been unprosecuted."
The former cop also said he talked with a Las Vegas police detective about the case, including after the SWAT raid in July at the home in Henderson. Kading said he believed the investigation gained new momentum in recent years following Davis’s public descriptions of his role in the killing, including his 2019 tell-all memoir, Compton Street Legend.
Keefe D was arrested (YouTube)“It’s those events that have given Las Vegas the ammunition and the leverage to move forward,” Kading said, “Prior to Keefe D’s public declarations, the cases were unprosecutable as they stood.
He put himself squarely in the middle of the conspiracy,” Kading said of Davis and the Shakur slaying, “He had acquired the gun, he had given the gun to the shooter, and he had been present in the vehicle when they hunted down and located both Tupac and Suge (Knight).”
Kading noted that Davis is the last living person among the four people in the vehicle from which shots were fired at Shakur and rapper Marion “Suge” Knight. Others were Davis’s nephew, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, Terrence “Bubble Up” Brown and DeAndre “Freaky” Smith.
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“It’s a concerted effort of conspirators,” Kading said, adding that he believed that because the killing was premeditated, Davis could face a first-degree murder charge.
“All the other direct conspirators or participants are all dead,” Kading said. “Keefe D is the last man standing among the individuals that conspired to kill Tupac.”
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