The Las Vegas police have arrested 60-year-old man, Duane “Keffe D” in connection to the killing of legendary rapper, Tupac Shakur.
The arrest of Davis, who is one of the last living witnesses to the 1996 killing of Tupac, is a long-awaited breakthrough 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.
Duane “Keffe D” Davis was arrested early Friday morning on suspicion of murder, according to two officials with first-hand knowledge of the arrest.
In his 2019 tell-all memoir, “Compton Street Legend,” Davis admitted that he was in the Cadillac from which the gunfire erupted during the Sept. 7, 1996, drive-by shooting.
That night, Shakur 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, at the age of 25.
The rapper’s death came as his fourth solo album, “All Eyez on Me,” remained on the charts, with some 5 million copies sold. Nominated six times for a Grammy Award, Shakur is still largely considered one of the most influential and versatile rappers of all time.
In his memoir, Davis said he was in the front passenger seat of the Cadillac and had slipped the gun used in the killing into the backseat, from where he said the shots were fired.
Davis implicated his nephew, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, saying he was one of two people in the backseat. Anderson, a known rival of Shakur, had been involved in a casino brawl with the rapper shortly before the shooting.
