Authorities have arrested a suspect in connection with the death of rapper Tupac Shakur.
Duane “Keffe D” Davis was arrested early Friday morning by Las Vegas Police, although the exact charge or charges were not immediately clear, two officials with first-hand knowledge of the arrest told The Associated Press. They were not authorized to speak publicly ahead of an expected indictment later Friday.
Davis has long been known to investigators and has himself admitted in interviews and in his 2019 tell-all memoir, “Compton Street Legend,” that he was in the Cadillac where the gunfire erupted during the September 1996 drive-by shooting.
Police raided the suspect’s wife’s Nevada home on July 17. “Come out with your hands up and your hands empty!” law enforcement officers were heard yelling in the video, as blue and red lights lit up the otherwise quiet neighborhood in the city of Henderson, which is about 20 miles from the Las Vegas strip.
Authorities seized a Pokeball USB drive, an iPhone, three iPads (one with a cracked screen), four laptops, a tablet, a desktop computer, several external hard drives, copies of the book “Compton Street Legends,” a Vibe magazine about Shakur and two “black tubs” of photos, according to the search warrant.
Police also searched for “notes, writings, ledgers and other handwritten or typed documents” about anything mentioning the murder of Shakur, the documents stated.
Davis’ nephew, Orlando Anderson, was considered the prime suspect in Tupac’s 1996 murder. Anderson denied involvement before he was killed in a separate shooting in Compton, California, in 1998.
Tupac was fatally shot in a drive-by shooting on Sept. 7, 1996. The rapper was riding shotgun in Death Row Records co-founder Marion “Suge” Knight’s black BMW when a white Cadillac pulled up alongside them while they were stopped at a light. In an interview done by Davis in 2018, he claimed everyone in the Cadillac that night was a member of the South Side Compton Crips gang.
The gang was looking for Tupac, who had allegedly brawled with a member in the hours leading up to the fatal shooting.
Davis, who made the admission during the “Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G.” documentary, only revealed the gunshots came from the back seat.
Tupac was just 25 at the time. His fourth solo record, “All Eyez on Me,” was still at the top of the charts with about 5 million copies sold.
Fox News report
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