Tupac death arrest made by police in major development of 27 year old mystery
Las Vegas police have arrested a man in connection with the deadly 1996 drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur
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Las Vegas police have arrested a man on suspicion of murder for the deadly 1996 drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur.
The arrest is a long-awaited break in the case which has remained unsolved for 27 years.
On Friday morning, Duane “Keffe D” Davis was charged with the murder of Tupac.
Davis has reportedly been on the investigators' radar for years and has admitted in interviews and in his 2019 tell-all memoir, “Compton Street Legend” that he was in the Cadillac where the gunfire erupted.
The arrest is a long-awaited break in the case which has remained unsolved for 27 years
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On September 7, 1996, Tupac was in a BMW car when the driver, Marion "Suge" Knight, the founder of Death Row Records, stopped at red lights near the Las Vegas strip.
A white Cadillac then drove up next to the car and fired into the BMW.
Tupac, 25 was shot multiple times and died due to the severity of his injuries a week later.
Davis' arrest comes two months after police raided the home of his wife on July 17.
Documents said police were looking for items “concerning the murder of Tupac Shakur.”
It is claimed that officers collected multiple computers, a phone and hard drive, a Vibe magazine that featured Tupac, several .40-caliber bullets, two “tubs containing photographs” and a copy of Davis’ 2019 tell-all memoir, “Compton Street Legend.”
Davis spoke about Tupac’s killing in 2010 after facing life in prison on drug charges.
“They promised they would shred the indictment and stop the grand jury if I helped them out,” he wrote.
Tupac was shot multiple times and died due to the severity of his injuries a week later
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He has described himself as one of the last living witnesses to the shooting.
In 2018, Davis publicly admitted he was inside the Cadillac and after a cancer diagnosis he implicated his nephew, Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson as the shooter.
Anderson has denied that he was involved in the shooting, and died in a shootout in Compton, California in 1998, two years after Tupac was murdered.