In a significant development regarding the notorious unsolved murder of rapper Tupac Shakur, a Nevada man named Duane “Keffe D” Davis has been indicted for his alleged role in the crime.
Prosecutors have charged Davis of murder with the use of a deadly weapon on Friday. As per Chief Deputy District Attorney Marc DiGiacomo, a grand jury has been diligently examining the case for several months. DiGiacomo referred to Davis as the “on-ground, on-site commander” who allegedly “ordered the death” of Shakur.
News of Davis’s indictment came shortly after law enforcement officers arrested the 60-year-old man while he was out for a walk near his residence. Davis isn’t a new name in this investigation; he openly discussed his presence in the Cadillac from which the fatal shots were fired at Shakur in September 1996, both in interviews and his 2019 memoir titled “Compton Street Legend.”
On July 17, law enforcement conducted a search operation at the Nevada home of Davis’s wife. The scene was intense as officers, with flashing blue and red lights, loudly ordered: “Come out with your hands up and your hands empty!” in the usually tranquil neighborhood of Henderson, roughly 20 miles away from the Las Vegas Strip’s allure.
Items retrieved during the search include an iPhone, three iPads, four laptops, a desktop computer, numerous external hard drives, and copies of Davis’s book “Compton Street Legends.”
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In addition, the authorities took a Vibe magazine issue on Shakur and two containers full of photographs. The officers were specifically on the lookout for any handwritten or typed documents mentioning Shakur’s murder, as indicated in the search warrant.
Prior to Davis’s arrest, his nephew, Orlando Anderson, had once been the main suspect in the investigation of Shakur’s death back in 1996. Anderson, however, always denied any involvement before he met a tragic end in a separate shooting incident in Compton, California, in 1998.
Tupac Shakur, a celebrated figure in the music world, was tragically gunned down on Sept. 7, 1996. On that fateful night, he was in a black BMW, owned by Death Row Records co-founder Marion “Suge” Knight, when a white Cadillac pulled up next to them at a traffic stop. Davis, in a 2018 interview, revealed that all occupants of that Cadillac were associated with the South Side Compton Crips gang.
Apparently, Shakur had had a confrontation with a member of this gang just hours before the drive-by shooting that took his life.
The rapper was only 25 years old when he was killed. At the time of his untimely death, his album “All Eyez on Me” was enjoying immense success, having sold about 5 million copies.
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