A suspect has finally been arrested in connection with the 1996 Tupac Shakur’s drive-by murder after 27 years of unanswered questions.
Duane Keith “Keffe D” Davis, was arrested Friday morning in Las Vegas, according to authorities.
At a Friday news conference, authorities painted Davis as the ringmaster of a plot to kill Shakur as retaliation after an attack on his nephew.
In an interview with Davis, he claimed he was in the front seat of the white Cadillac that drove up to Tupac’s ride before shots rang out from the back seat, killing the musician.
The rapper was shot four times and died six days later.
Shakur was shot and killed while leaving a boxing match on the Las Vegas Strip. He was only 25.
“For 27 years, the family of Tupac Shakur has been waiting for justice,” said Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Sheriff Kevin McMahill at the news conference.
“The investigation started on the night of September 7th, 1996,” McMahill said. “It is far from over. It has taken countless hours, really decades, of work by the men and women of our homicide section to get to where we are today.”
Shakur was in Las Vegas to see Mike Tyson box at the MGM Grand Hotel. Members of the Southside Compton Crips, including Davis and his nephew Orlando Anderson, also attended the event.
“As both groups were leaving the fight, members of Death Row Records spotted Orlando Anderson near an elevator bank inside the MGM and at that time they began to kick and punch him near that elevator bank,” said Johansson, showing hotel surveillance footage of the fight.
