The Las Vegas (Nevada) police made an arrest this Friday that in principle puts an end to one of the most fascinating mysteries of urban culture.
Security forces arrested a man in connection with the death of rapper Tupac Shakur, which occurred in 1996 on the famous Strip of the capital of sin, a case that has haunted investigators, which has become literary and fascinated the public for almost three decades.
Duanne Keffe D Davis, former gang leader, was taken into police custody on charges of murder. Suspicions about Davis have long been raised. He himself admitted in interviews, after being diagnosed with cancer in 2018, and in his volume of memoirs ‘Compton Street Legend’ (2019) that he was on September 6 in the Cadillac from which the bullets came out in the shootout with the BMW. hosted by Marion ‘Surge’ Knight, founder of the Death Row Records label, which included Shakur. He was 25 years old, was shot several times and died after a week.
Police sources indicated that on July 17 they carried out an entry and search at the home of the detainee’s wife, in Henderson. The documents from that operation specified that investigators were looking for evidence “relating to the death of Tupac Shakur.” The police seized several computers, mobile phones and hard drives, as well as magazines and .40 caliber bullets.
In his book Davis wrote that in 2010 he broke his silence about the death of the rapper, who had been in a Mike Tyson boxing match, in a meeting with authorities. At 46 years old, he faced a possible life sentence for drug trafficking. “They said they would break the case if he cooperated,” he said. He claimed that he was one of the last living witnesses.
Davis implicated his nephew, Orlando Baby Lane Anderson, saying he was one of the people riding in the back seat from where the shots were fired.
The shooting occurred shortly after a fight at a casino that same night involving Anderson, Shakur and others. Anderson denied any involvement in this matter and died two years later in another shooting in Compton, California.
Shakur’s death occurred while he was triumphing with his fourth solo album, All Eyez on Me, with some five million copies sold. Nominated six times for a Grammy Award, Shakur is considered one of the most influential and versatile rappers of all time.
Shakur survived a shooting in 1994. He was shot five times. At that time there was a confrontation between rappers from the west coast, led by him, and those from the east, with Notorius B.I.G.
In 1997, a few months after Shakur’s death, Notorius B.I.G. fell, a crime that remains without a perpetrator.
Greg Kading, a retired Los Angeles police detective who spent years investigating Shakur’s murder and wrote a book about it. He stressed that he would not be surprised by the indictment and arrest of Davis. “It should have happened a long time ago,” he told the AP in a recent interview.
Davis is the last living person of the four who were in the vehicle from which Shakur was shot. The others were Baby Lane, Terrence Bubble Up Brown and DeAndre Freaky Smith.
