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Las Vegas police have arrested a man in the deadly 1996 drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur, a long-awaited break in a case that has frustrated investigators and fascinated the public ever since the hip-hop star was gunned down on the Las Vegas Strip 27 years ago.

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 on 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 from which 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 on 17 July 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 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 gunned down in a drive-by shooting near the Las Vegas Strip on the night of 7 September 1996. The rapper was in a BMW driven by the 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.

Shakur’s death came as his fourth solo album, All Eyez on Me, remained on the charts, with some 5m copies sold. Nominated six times for a Grammy award, Shakur is largely considered one of the most influential and versatile rappers of all time.

Shakur was feuding at the time with rap rival Biggie Smalls, also known as the Notorious BIG, who was fatally shot in March 1997. At the t

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00:00 Las Vegas police have arrested a man in the deadly 1996 drive-by shooting of Tupac Shocker,
00:07 a long-awaited break in a case that has frustrated investigators and fascinated the public ever
00:12 since the hip-hop star was gunned down on the Las Vegas Strip 27 years ago.
00:18 Dwayne "Kef" D. Davis was arrested early Friday morning, although the exact charge or charges
00:24 were not immediately clear, according to two officials with first-hand knowledge of the
00:29 arrest.
00:30 They were not authorized to speak publicly ahead of an expected indictment later on Friday.
00:35 Davis has long been known to investigators and has himself admitted in interviews and
00:40 in his 2019 tell-all memoir, Compton Street Legend, that he was in the Cadillac from which
00:46 the gunfire erupted during the September 1996 drive-by shooting.
00:52 Shocker was 25 when he was gunned down.
00:55 The arrest comes two months after Las Vegas police raided his wife's home on 17 July in
01:01 neighboring Henderson.
01:02 Documents said police were looking for items concerning the murder of Tupac Shocker.
01:07 Police reported collecting multiple computers, a cell phone and hard drive, a Vibe magazine
01:13 that featured Shocker, several .40-caliber bullets, two tubs containing photographs and
01:19 a copy of Compton Street Legend.
01:22 In the book, Davis said he broke his silence over Tupac's killing in 2010 during a closed-door
01:29 meeting with federal and local authorities.
01:31 At the time, he was 46 and facing life in prison on drug charges when he agreed to speak
01:37 with the authorities.
01:39 They promised they would shred the indictment and stop the grand jury if "I helped them
01:43 out," he wrote.
01:45 He has described himself as one of the last living witnesses to the shooting.
01:49 Shocker was gunned down in a drive-by shooting near the Las Vegas Strip on the night of September
01:55 7, 1996.
01:57 The rapper was in a BMW driven by the Death Row Records founder Marion Suge Knight in
02:02 a convoy of about 10 cars.
02:04 They were waiting at a red light when a white Cadillac pulled up next to them and gunfire
02:09 erupted.
02:10 Shocker was shot multiple times and died a week later.
02:13 In 2018, after a cancer diagnosis, Davis admitted publicly in an interview for a BET show to
02:20 being inside the Cadillac during the attack.
02:23 He implicated his nephew, Orlando "Baby" Lane Anderson, saying he was one of two people
02:29 in the back seat where the shots were fired.
02:31 The shooting happened shortly after a casino brawl earlier in the evening involving Anderson,
02:37 Shocker and others.
02:38 Anderson denied any involvement in the Shocker shooting.
02:41 He died two years later in a shooting in Compton, California.
02:46 Shocker's death came as his fourth solo album, "All Eyez On Me", remained on the charts,
02:52 with some five Meters copies sold.
02:54 Nominated six times for a Grammy Award, Shocker is largely considered one of the most influential
03:00 and versatile rappers of all time.
03:03 Shocker was feuding at the time with rap rival Biggie Smalls, also known as the Notorious
03:08 Big, who was fatally shot in March 1997.
03:12 At the time, both rappers were in the middle of an East Coast-West Coast rivalry that primarily
03:18 defined the hip-hop scene during the mid-1990s.
03:21 Greg Kading, a retired Los Angeles police detective who spent years investigating the
03:26 Shocker killing and wrote a book about it, said he would not be surprised by Davis's
03:32 indictment and arrest.
03:33 "It's so long overdue," Kading told the Associated Press during a recent interview.
03:38 "People have been yearning for him to be arrested for a long time.
03:42 It's never been unsolved in our minds.
03:44 It's been unprosecuted."
03:46 Kading said he interviewed Davis in 2008 and 2009, during Los Angeles police investigations
03:54 of the killings of Shocker in Las Vegas and the killing of Biggie Smalls.
03:58 Kading said also that he talked with a Las Vegas police detective about the case, including
04:04 after the SWAT raid in July at the home in Henderson.
04:08 The former Los Angeles police detective said he believed the investigation gained new momentum
04:13 in recent years following Davis's public descriptions of his role in the killing, including in Compton
04:19 Street Legend.
04:21 "It's those events that have given Las Vegas the ammunition and the leverage to move
04:25 forward," Kading said. "Prior to Keith D's public declarations, the cases were unprosecutable
04:32 as they stood. He put himself squarely in the middle of the conspiracy," Kading said
04:37 of Davis and the Shocker killing.
04:39 "He had acquired the gun, he had given the gun to the shooter and he had been present
04:43 in the vehicle when they hunted down and located both Tupac and Suge [Knight]."
04:49 Kading noted that Davis is the last living person among the four people who were in the
04:54 vehicle from which shots were fired at Shocker and Knight. Others were Anderson, Terrence
04:59 "Bubble Up" Brown and DeAndre "Freaky" Smith.
05:02 "It's a concerted effort of conspirators," Kading said, adding that he believed that
05:07 because the killing was premeditated Davis could face a first-degree murder charge. "All
05:12 the other direct conspirators or participants are all dead," Kading said.
05:17 Keith D is the last man standing among the individuals that conspired to kill Davis.

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