Las Vegas police arrest suspect for Tupac Shakur’s murder
A suspect has finally been arrested for the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur, according to a report.
Sources told The Associated Press on Friday that a man had been taken into custody on suspicion of the deadly drive-by shooting which has gone unsolved for almost three decades.
The arrest comes just two months after the Nevada home of Duane Keith Davis – known as Keffe D – was raided by Las Vegas police and a string of evidence seized in connection to the cold case.
Keffe D had previously said on multiple occasions that he had witnessed the rapper’s murder.
He is the uncle of Orlando Anderson, the late man who has long been the prime suspect in the killing.
During the search, which had Mr Davis’ name on the warrant, five computers, tablets and an iPhone were taken from his home.
Tupac was killed in a drive-by shooting while he sat in a car at an intersection near the Las Vegas strip on 7 September 1996.
Earlier that night, Tupac had gone to watch a Mike Tyson boxing match at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino on the strip with Suge Knight, the boss of his record label Death Row Records.
In the lobby of the hotel, Tupac attacked gangland rival Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson in a beating that was captured on surveillance footage.
On leaving the MGM Grand, Tupac and Knight drove along the strip in their BMW and stopped at a red light at an intersection.
A white Cadillac pulled up beside them and opened fire.
Tupac was shot four times with one of the bullets piercing his lung. He died six days later in hospital.
Despite several witnesses on the scene of the shooting, no arrests have ever been made until now.
Anderson has long been the prime suspect – on suspicion of shooting Tupac out of revenge for the attack in the hotel.
However, Anderson denied any involvement in the murder and was also killed two years later in a gang-related shooting in 1998.
Keffe D, a 60-year-old former Southside Compton Crips gang member, has previously claimed to have been present at Tupac’s murder and knows who pulled the trigger.
In both the 2018 Netflix documentary “Unsolved: The Tupac and Biggie Murders” and in his book Compton Street Legend which he published in 2019, Keffe D claimed that his nephew Orlando Anderson fatally shot Tupac – and that he was in the car with him when he opened fire.
“Tupac made an erratic move and began to reach down beneath his seat,” he writes in the book.
“It was the first and only time in my life that I could relate to the police command, ‘Keep your hands where I can see them.’ Instead, Pac pulled out a strap, and that’s when the fireworks started.
“One of my guys from the back seat grabbed the Glock and started bustin’ back.”
