Tupac's killer has been arrested

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Seth Pecksniff: May 27, 2004; Ogres don't get scared. We do the scaring.

And that's why we're the kings of Halloween.

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LAS VEGAS (AP) — 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 icon 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 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 where 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 July 17 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 Davis’ 2019 tell-all memoir, “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 25 when he was gunned down in a drive-by shooting near the Las Vegas Strip on the night of Sept. 7, 1996. The rapper was in a BMW driven by 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 5 million 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 B.I.G., who was fatally shot in March 1997. At the time, both rappers were in the middle of an East Coast-West Coast rivalry that primarily defined the hip-hop scene during the mid-1990s.

Greg Kading, a retired Los Angeles police detective who spent years investigating the Shakur killing and wrote a book about it, said he would not be surprised by Davis’s indictment and arrest.

“It’s so long overdue,” Kading told The Associated Press during a recent interview. “People have been yearning for him to be arrested for a long time. It’s never been unsolved in our minds. It’s been unprosecuted.”

Kading said he interviewed Davis in 2008 and 2009, during Los Angeles police investigations of the killings of Shakur in Las Vegas and the slaying of Biggie Smalls.

Kading said also that he talked with a Las Vegas police detective about the case, including after the SWAT raid in July at the home in Henderson.

The former Los Angeles police detective said he believed the investigation gained new momentum in recent years following Davis’s public descriptions of his role in the killing, including his 2019 tell-all memoir, “Compton Street Legend.”

“It’s those events that have given Las Vegas the ammunition and the leverage to move forward,” Kading said. “Prior to Keefe D’s public declarations, the cases were unprosecutable as they stood.”

“He put himself squarely in the middle of the conspiracy,” Kading said of Davis and the Shakur slaying. “He had acquired the gun, he had given the gun to the shooter and he had been present in the vehicle when they hunted down and located both Tupac and Suge (Knight).”

Kading noted that Davis is the last living person among the four people who were in the vehicle from which shots were fired at Shakur and rapper Marion “Suge” Knight. Others were Davis’s nephew, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, Terrence “Bubble Up” Brown and DeAndre “Freaky” Smith.

“It’s a concerted effort of conspirators,” Kading said, adding that he believed that because the killing was premeditated Davis could face a first-degree murder charge.

“All the other direct conspirators or participants are all dead,” Kading said. “Keefe D is the last man standing among the individuals that conspired to kill Tupac.”

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# ? Dec 1, 2023 23:25

MrQwerty: Apr 15, 2003

big reveal is that he is actually Tupac and has been this entire time

# ? Sep 29, 2023 16:54

Flavahbeast: Jul 21, 2001

Tupac recently passed away from complications of the shooting at his home in Kragujevac, thats probably why they're moving on this now

# ? Sep 29, 2023 16:56

N. Senada: May 17, 2011; My kidneys are busted

No I haven’t.

# ? Sep 29, 2023 17:00

neato burrito: Aug 25, 2002; bitch better have my chex mix

2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted

# ? Sep 29, 2023 17:02

bradzilla: Oct 15, 2004

N. Senada posted:

No I haven’t.

Vintage "I'm da guy in da op!!!!

# ? Sep 29, 2023 17:05

Droogie: Mar 21, 2007; But what I do
I do
because I like to do.

Neat

# ? Sep 29, 2023 17:12

Lamanda: Apr 18, 2003

I always thought there was something sketchy about Keffe D

# ? Sep 29, 2023 17:19

SIDS Vicious: Jan 1, 1970

thats the yogurt drink right

# ? Sep 29, 2023 17:22

Henry Lee Mucus: Dec 11, 2003

Glorious day for every 16 year old white suburban kid

# ? Sep 29, 2023 17:25

Gresh: Jan 12, 2019

imagine walking the streets the past 30 years just knowing you're the dude who capped Tupac, a man who has basically achieved deity status post-death

# ? Sep 29, 2023 17:44

Haptical Sales Slut: Mar 15, 2010; Age 18 to 49

Love how all the other friends had their own lil nicknames. :3:

# ? Sep 29, 2023 18:01

BAGS FLY AT NOON: Apr 6, 2011

Haptical Sales Slut posted:

Love how all the other friends had their own lil nicknames.

Big fan of Bubble Up

# ? Sep 29, 2023 18:16

Bad Purchase: Jun 17, 2019

i’m not gonna say how i know, but they got the wrong guy

# ? Sep 29, 2023 18:19

Costco Meatballs: Oct 21, 2022

lmao at writing a book about how you killed tupac and then being surprised when you get arrested for admitting to killing tupac

# ? Sep 29, 2023 18:22

Costco Meatballs: Oct 21, 2022

I Did It

# ? Sep 29, 2023 18:23

Jailbrekr: Apr 8, 2002; A TOWN LEVELED BY AN EXPLOSION? DOZENS LIKELY KILLED? OH GOD LET ME SEE THAT SWEET VIDEO OH MY GOD I'M CUMMING

The last one standing is guilty is an excellent legal strategy.

# ? Sep 29, 2023 18:23

I. M. Gei: Jun 26, 2005

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Shakur was feuding at the time with rap rival Biggie Smalls, also known as the Notorious B.I.G., who was fatally shot in March 1997. At the time, both rappers were in the middle of an East Coast-West Coast rivalry that primarily defined the hip-hop scene during the mid-1990s.

I thought they were friends though? :confused:

Didn't Tupac write I'll Be Missing You in honor of Biggie after he got killed?

I. M. Gei fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Sep 29, 2023

# ? Sep 29, 2023 18:23

Panic! At The Tesco: Aug 19, 2005; FART

that's just the way it is

# ? Sep 29, 2023 18:23

redshirt: Aug 11, 2007; Reporting for away mission Sir.

We got him

# ? Sep 29, 2023 18:25

BAGS FLY AT NOON: Apr 6, 2011

I. M. Gei posted:

I thought they were friends though?

Didn't Tupac write I'll Be Missing You in honor of Biggie after he got killed?

Tupac was killed like a year before Biggie

# ? Sep 29, 2023 18:26

credburn: Jun 22, 2016

I. M. Gei posted:

I thought they were friends though?

Didn't Tupac write I'll Be Missing You in honor of Biggie after he got killed?

I'll Be Missing You is an insultingly simple and dumb song, clearly written to mock Toopac and Biggle

# ? Sep 29, 2023 18:28

I. M. Gei: Jun 26, 2005

BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:

Tupac was killed like a year before Biggie

poo poo I could've sworn Biggie died first.

Last time I read up on them there was a theory that both murders were committed (or orchestrated) by the same people. Are they any closer to nabbing Biggie's killer after this?

# ? Sep 29, 2023 18:33

BAGS FLY AT NOON: Apr 6, 2011

Costco Meatballs posted:

lmao at writing a book about how you killed tupac and then being surprised when you get arrested for admitting to killing tupac

They’ll be pulling up to OJ’s door any day now.

# ? Sep 29, 2023 18:57

happyhippy: Feb 21, 2005; Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup; Pillbug

Wait, what?

Then who the gently caress did I shoot back then?

# ? Sep 29, 2023 19:45

Serious_Cyclone: Oct 24, 2017; I appreciate your patience, this is a tricky maneuver

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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 where the gunfire erupted during the September 1996 drive-by shooting.

excellent detective work over the last 27 years

# ? Sep 29, 2023 19:47

20 Blunts: Jan 21, 2017

P. Diddy still walks free

# ? Sep 29, 2023 19:47

redshirt: Aug 11, 2007; Reporting for away mission Sir.

Serious_Cyclone posted:

excellent detective work over the last 27 years

Just got results back from the Crime Lab

# ? Sep 29, 2023 19:48

Jelly: Feb 11, 2004; Ask me about my STD collection!

Serious_Cyclone posted:

excellent detective work over the last 27 years

literally the narrative of every single crime documentary i've ever watched in my life

god drat cops are dumber than dogshit

# ? Sep 29, 2023 19:48

maybeadracula: Sep 9, 2022

Threepac's time has finally come

# ? Sep 29, 2023 19:49

Jelly: Feb 11, 2004; Ask me about my STD collection!

cops: idk we've tried nothing and there's nothing we can do
the public and/or the killers themselves: we've gathered all the evidence you require and found out where the killer is, here you go
cops: we solved the case!

# ? Sep 29, 2023 19:50

EL BROMANCE: Jun 10, 2006; COWABUNGA DUDES!
🥷🐢😬

Has to be said - I’m very disappointed in Duane “Keffe D” Davis.

# ? Sep 29, 2023 19:57

Haptical Sales Slut: Mar 15, 2010; Age 18 to 49

Imagine dying over which coast is more racist and lovely to live in but by the same metric is therefore cooler.

# ? Sep 29, 2023 20:09

happyhippy: Feb 21, 2005; Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup; Pillbug

Haptical Sales Slut posted:

Imagine dying over which coast is more racist and lovely to live in but by the same metric is therefore cooler.

Especially when the North Coast is the best.

# ? Sep 29, 2023 20:23

I. M. Gei: Jun 26, 2005

Haptical Sales Slut posted:

Imagine dying over which coast is more racist and lovely to live in but by the same metric is therefore cooler.

The concept of territory is a really really big deal in street gangs.

# ? Sep 29, 2023 20:24

mom and dad fight a lot: Sep 21, 2006; The number of characters in this sentence turns out to be sixty-nine.

earth shakuring news

# ? Sep 29, 2023 20:45

dr_rat: Jun 4, 2001

So was the east/west coast civil war fought over slavery like the north/south one was? Which side do lovely redneck countries racists still fly the flag of?

wasn't following the news in the 90's so I sorta missed that one.

# ? Sep 29, 2023 20:46

MrQwerty: Apr 15, 2003

dr_rat posted:

So was the east/west coast civil war fought over slavery like the north/south one was? Which side do lovely redneck countries racists still fly the flag of?

wasn't following the news in the 90's so I sorta missed that one.

the east coast/west coast war was fought by millionaires over clout, it might be the first cyberpunk war
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xvbb7F2CCOU

MrQwerty fucked around with this message at 21:08 on Sep 29, 2023

# ? Sep 29, 2023 21:05

Haptical Sales Slut: Mar 15, 2010; Age 18 to 49

happyhippy posted:

Especially when the North Coast is the best.

dr_rat posted:

So was the east/west coast civil war fought over slavery like the north/south one was? Which side do lovely redneck countries racists still fly the flag of?

wasn't following the news in the 90's so I sorta missed that one.

It was more about which weed was the dankest and whose hoes were the most big bootied. A story old as time.

# ? Sep 29, 2023 21:08

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# ? Dec 1, 2023 23:25

dr_rat: Jun 4, 2001

MrQwerty posted:

the east coast/west coast war was fought by millionaires over clout, it might be the first cyberpunk war

Man, all the poo poo modern day millionaire influences do for clouts is so lame.

# ? Sep 29, 2023 21:10

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