Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis charged with murder in Tupac Shakur’s 1996 shooting
- The arrest of Davis, one of the last living witnesses to the hip-hop icon’s death, is a long-awaited breakthrough to the decades-old case
- Police had raided his wife’s home over two months ago in search of items ‘concerning the murder of Tupac Shakur’
Duane “Keffe D” Davis, one of the last living witnesses to the fatal 1996 drive-by shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur, was charged in the Las Vegas killing on Friday.
The arrest of Davis, who also goes by the name “Keffe D”, sometimes spelled “Keefe”, was a long-awaited breakthrough in a case that has frustrated investigators and fascinated the public ever since the hip-hop icon was gunned down 27 years ago.
A Nevada grand jury indicted Davis in the killing, prosecutors announced in court on Friday. He has been charged with murder with use of a deadly weapon.
The charges were revealed hours after Davis, 60, was arrested, according to two officials with first-hand knowledge of the arrest who requested anonymity to discuss the case.
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 killed.
Las Vegas police raided a home in mid-July in the Las Vegas suburb of Henderson that is tied to Davis. Police were looking for items “concerning the murder of Tupac Shakur”, according to the search warrant.