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Duane “Keffe D” Davis, the man who admitted to being in the car used to gun down Tupac Shakur in 1996, was arrested and indicted on Friday in Las Vegas, USA for the murder of the legendary rapper, according to multiple sources.
KEY FACTS
A Clark County grand jury voted to indict Davis on the charge of murder with the use of a deadly weapon, hours after he was arrested while on a walk near his home, the Associated Press reported.
Chief Deputy District Attorney Marc DiGiacomo described Davis as the “commander” who “ordered the death” of Shakur, adding public statements implicated Davis in the killing.
The indictment comes more than two months after the home of Davis’ wife was reportedly searched by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department—a probe that resulted in two people being detained.
Davis admitted he was in the vehicle with the person who killed Shakur in the 2018 Netflix documentary Unsolved: The Tupac and Biggie Murders.
Davis made the admission again that same year in an interview on BET in which he said his late nephew, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, was one of two people in the back seat where shots were fired from.
Anderson was a suspect in Shakur’s death and denied involvement not long after the shooting—he died in a gang shootout in Compton, California, two years later.
Shakur, one of hip-hop’s most revered and beloved figures, was nominated for six Grammy awards and was one of the first artists to be inducted into the Hip Hop Hall of Fame in 2002. Shakur was a passenger in a BMW driven by Death Row Records co-founder Marion “Suge” Knight on the night of September 7, 1996.
The vehicle was part of a larger convoy departing from a Mike Tyson boxing match in Las Vegas and was hit in a drive-by shooting involving a white Cadillac. Shakur was shot four times in the attack and died six days later at the age of 25. Ever since, investigators haven’t been able to crack the case, which also involved the murder of Yafeu Fula, a witness to the drive-by who was seated in the car behind Shakur’s when the drive-by occurred.
TANGENT
Shakur was not the only prominent rapper murdered in a drive-by shooting in the late 1990s. Christopher Wallace, the trailblazing rapper from Brooklyn, New York, better known as the Notorious B.I.G., was also killed in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles six months after Shakur was killed. Rumors and theories continue to surround the murders of the two hip-hop icons.
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