{"id":42075,"date":"2023-09-29T20:00:28","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T20:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/29\/duane-davis-charged-with-the-1996-murder-of-tupac-shakur\/"},"modified":"2023-09-29T20:00:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T20:00:28","slug":"duane-davis-charged-with-the-1996-murder-of-tupac-shakur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/29\/duane-davis-charged-with-the-1996-murder-of-tupac-shakur\/","title":{"rendered":"Duane Davis charged with the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur"},"content":{"rendered":"


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One of the last living witnesses to the fatal drive-by shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur<\/a><\/strong> in Las Vegas has been charged with murder using a deadly weapon over the 1996 killing.<\/p>\n

The charges against Duane \u201cKeffe D\u201d Davis<\/strong> on Friday (Sep. 29, 2023) represent a long-awaited breakthrough in a case that has frustrated investigators and fascinated the public since the hip-hop icon was gunned down 27 years ago.<\/p>\n

Chief Deputy District Attorney Marc DiGiacomo said a grand jury indicted Davis in Nevada had been seated in the case for \u201cseveral months.\u201d DiGiacomo described Davis as the \u201con-ground, on-site commander\u201d who \u201cordered the death\u201d of Shakur.<\/p>\n

According to DiGiacomo, the charges were revealed hours after Davis, 60, was arrested on Friday morning while on a walk near his home<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Davis has long been known to investigators in the United States. He has himself admitted in interviews and 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.<\/p>\n

Shakur was 25 when he was killed.<\/p>\n

Las Vegas police raided a home in mid-July in the Las Vegas suburb of Henderson tied to Davis.<\/p>\n

Police were looking for items \u201cconcerning the murder of Tupac Shakur,\u201d according to the search warrant. They collected multiple computers, a mobile phone and hard drive, a Vibe magazine that featured Shakur, several .40-calibre bullets, two \u201ctubs containing photographs,\u201d and a copy of Davis\u2019 memoir.<\/p>\n

Clark County District Judge Jerry Wiese denied Davis bail.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has often been said that justice delayed is justice denied,\u201d District Attorney Steve Wolfson said after the hearing in a brief comment to The Associated Press news agency. \u201cIn this case, justice has been delayed, but justice won\u2019t be denied.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was not immediately clear if Davis had a lawyer to comment on his behalf. Davis has not responded to multiple phone and text messages from AP seeking comment or an interview in the more than two months since the house raid.<\/p>\n

Shakur was in a BMW driven by Death Row Records founder Marion \u201cSuge\u201d Knight<\/strong> in a convoy of about ten 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 25.<\/p>\n

The rapper\u2019s death came as his fourth solo album, All Eyez on Me<\/strong><\/em>, remained on the charts, with some five 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.<\/p>\n

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, where he said the shots were fired.<\/p>\n

Davis implicated his nephew, Orlando \u201cBaby Lane\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

DiGiacomo said after the casino brawl, \u201cMr. Davis formulated a plan to exact revenge upon Mr. Knight and Mr. Shakur\u201d in his nephew\u2019s defense.<\/p>\n

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Anderson died two years later. He denied any involvement in Shakur\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

Davis revealed in his memoir that he first broke his silence in 2010 during a closed-door meeting with federal and local authorities.<\/p>\n

At the time, he was 46 and facing life in prison on drug charges when he agreed to speak with them about Tupac\u2019s killing, as well as the fatal shooting six months later of Tupac\u2019s rap rival, Biggie Smalls<\/strong>, also known as the Notorious B.I.G<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey offered to let me go for running a \u2018criminal enterprise\u2019 and numerous alleged murders for the truth about the Tupac and Biggie murders,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThey promised they would shred the indictment and stop the grand jury if I helped them out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Greg Kading, a retired Los Angeles police detective who spent years investigating the Shakur killing and wrote a book about it, said he was not surprised by Davis\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n

The former police detective said he believed the investigation gained new momentum in recent years following Davis\u2019s public descriptions of his role in the killing, including his 2019 memoir.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s those events that have given Las Vegas the ammunition and the leverage to move forward,\u201d Kading said. \u201cPrior to Keffe D\u2019s public declarations, the cases were unprosecutable as they stood.\u201d<\/p>\n

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