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Tupac murder suspect arrested and named as Duane Davis

Las Vegas police arrest Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis who was tied to 1996 drive-by shooting of hip-hop star, after decades without a suspect

Josh Marcus
San Francisco
Saturday 30 September 2023 23:45 BST
Man charged with the murder of Tupac Shakur in 1996

Nevada man Duane Davis has been indicted for the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur.

Las Vegas police arrested the 60-year-old on Friday morning.

Mr Davis, 60, was the “on-ground, on-site commander” who “ordered the death” of the legendary hip-hop star, according to Chief Deputy District Attorney Marc DiGiacomo.

The rapper’s stepbrother Mopreme Shakur told CNN this moment is “bittersweet.”

“We have been through decades of pain. They have known about this guy, who been running his mouth, for years,” he said.

“So why now?” he added. “For us, this is not over. We want to know why, and if there were any accomplices.”

In July, the Vegas police raided a home connected to the man in the nearby city of Henderson as part of their ongoing investigation.

Shakur was shot in a drive-by shooting in Vegas on 7 September, 1996.

Las Vegas police videos show moments before home is raided in Tupac Shakur cold case

Dozens of Las Vegas police body camera videos showed the moment a man and his wife exited a home raided in July in connection with the cold case killing of rapper Tupac Shakur.

The heavily redacted footage obtained Thursday by The Associated Press did not provide a view into the home or identify the couple, whose faces were blurred from view. But a copy of the warrant said police were searching on the night of July 17 for items “concerning the murder” of Shakur from Duane “Keffe D” Davis, one of the last surviving witnesses to a crime that has fascinated the public for decades.

Rio Yamat reports.

Las Vegas police videos show moments before home is raided in Tupac Shakur cold case

Dozens of Las Vegas police body camera videos show the moment a man and his wife exited a home raided in July in connection with the cold case killing of rapper Tupac Shakur

Josh Marcus30 September 2023 13:44

Why Tupac’s death has been a magnet for conspiracies

Tupac Shakur, one of gangsta rap’s greatest icons, was mortally wounded in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada, on the night of 7 September 1996.

The black BMW 750 sedan he was riding in with Death Row Records boss Suge Knight was suddenly fired upon from a rented white Cadillac that had pulled up longside the vehicle, as it idled at traffic lights at the intersection of Flamingo Road and Koval Lane.

Tupac, 25, had failed to notice the danger as he flirted playfully with a carload of female fans on the passenger side of his car.

He was hit four times as the mystery gunman fired 14 shots from a Glock semi-automatic pistol, with one bullet tearing through his right lung.

He died of internal bleeding in the intensive care unit of the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada six days later.

The case went cold for nearly 30 years.

In the meantime, conspiracy theories flourished.

Joe Sommerlad reports on some of the most prominent ones.

Bizarre conspiracy theories surrounding Tupac Shakur’s murder

Wild stories continue to circulate about the gangsta rapper, who was gunned down in a still-unsolved drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in 1996. Joe Sommerlad reports

Josh Marcus30 September 2023 23:45

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