Las Vegas police have charged Duane “Keefe D” Davis with the murder of US rapper Tupac Shakur.
The hip-hop icon was gunned down on the Las Vegas Strip on September 7, 1996 but, until now, no one has ever been charged with his murder.
Davis, who admitted publicly in a 2018 interview for a BET show to being inside the Cadillac during the attack, was part of Pac’s rival gang the Crips and had sought revenge for the attack on his nephew, Orlando Anderson. Police shared footage of the attack today (September 27), underlining that was the motive.
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In a press conference, Sheriff Kevin McMahill said that for “27 years, the family of Tupac Shakur has waited for justice”. He added: “It has taken countless hours, really decades, of work by homicide section to get to where we are today.
“Some people did not believe that the murder of Tupac Shakur was important to this police department, that was not the case back then and that is not the case today.
“Our goal has always been to hold those accountable for Tupac’s violent murder. Every life that is lost is important and remains a priority for this police department.
Davis has long been known to investigators and had also in his 2019 tell-all memoir, “Compton Street Legend,” that he was in the Cadillac where the gunfire erupted during the drive-by shooting.
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Shakur was 25 when he was gunned down in the passenger seat of a BMW driven by Death Row Records founder Marion “Suge” Knight. Shakur was shot multiple times and died a week later.
In his BET interview, Davis implicated his nephew, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, saying he was one of two people in the back seat where the shots were fired.
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Police officer Jason Johansson issued more details of the night of the murder in the press conference. e said that Orlando Anderson and Shakur were involved in a fight in a casino short before the incident. He then showed the hotel security camera footage of incident of Anderson being beaten before Tupac was later shot dead.
Johansson said that this incident ultimately lead to the retaliatory shooting and death of Shakur. Johansson, detailing the moments leading up to and after Shakur being shot, says it became obvious very quickly that this was a gang-related crime. As time went on, this case had been reviewed multiple times – but it wasn’t until 2018, when new information came to light, that it was “reinvigorated”.
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He also mentions Davis’ “own admissions”, which he provided to numerous media outlets, that he was in the vehicle where the shots were fired from. Davis has appeared on multiple TV outlets and written a tell-all memoir outlining his experience on the day Shakur died.
Anderson previously denied any involvement in the Shakur shooting. He died two years later in a shooting in Compton, California. Shakur’s death came as his fourth solo album, “All Eyez on Me,” remained on the charts, with some 5 million copies sold.
District Attorney Steve Wolfson said: “‘Justice delayed is justice denied’ is a quote we used a lot for many many years, but not in this case. Today justice will be served in the murder of Tupac Shakur.” He said that Davis, who has just been charged with Shakur’s murder, will appear in court in the next few days or so.
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“After working for months on the case, we have decided that there was sufficient evidence to justify for this criminal indictment,” he added. “Tupac Shakur is a music legend and both this community and worldwide have been wanting justice for Tupac. Today we have taken this first step for justice.”
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