The development is a long-awaited break in a case that has
frustrated investigators and fascinated the public ever since the hip-hop icon
was gunned down on the Las Vegas Strip 27 years ago.
AP News reported that Duane “Keffe D” Davis was arrested
early Friday morning. Although the exact charge or charges were not immediately
clear, according to two officials with first-hand knowledge of the arrest.
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. Shakur was 25 when he was gunned down.
The arrest comes two months after Las Vegas police raided
his wife’s home July 17 in neighboring Henderson. Documents said police were
looking for items “concerning the murder of Tupac Shakur.”
Police reported collecting multiple computers, a cellphone
and hard drive, a Vibe magazine that featured Shakur, several .40-caliber
bullets, two “tubs containing photographs” and a copy of Davis’ 2019 tell-all
memoir, “Compton Street Legend.”
In the book, Davis said he broke his silence over Tupac’s
killing in 2010 during a closed-door meeting with federal and local
authorities. At the time, he was 46 and facing life in prison on drug charges
when he agreed to speak with the authorities.
“They promised they would shred the indictment and stop the
grand jury if I helped them out,” he wrote.
He has described himself as one of the last living witnesses
to the shooting.
Shakur was 25 when he was gunned down in a drive-by shooting
near the Las Vegas Strip on the night of Sept. 7, 1996. The rapper was in a BMW
driven by Death Row Records founder Marion “Suge” Knight in a convoy of about
10 cars. They were waiting at a red light when a white Cadillac pulled up next
to them and gunfire erupted.
Shakur was shot multiple times and died a week later.
In 2018, after a cancer diagnosis, Davis admitted publicly
in an interview for a BET show to being inside the Cadillac during the attack.
He implicated his nephew, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, saying he was one of
two people in the back seat where the shots were fired.
The shooting happened shortly after a casino brawl earlier
in the evening involving Anderson, Shakur and others.
Anderson denied any involvement in the Shakur shooting. He
died two years later in a shooting in Compton, California.
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