Update, Sept. 29, 2023 at 6:50 PM:
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department held a press conference on Friday to announced the charges against Duane “Keefe D” Davis.
Davis, 60, was arrested by Las Vegas police early Friday and charged with the murder of hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur.
According to the indictment, Davis “obtained a firearm for the purpose of seeking retribution against Tupac Amaru Shakur” and/or Suge Knight.
The night of Tupac’s murder, Davis was in a car with other South Side Compton Crips gang members, including his nephew Orlando Anderson who is believed to be the trigger man.
Anderson allegedly shot Tupac in a drive-by on Sept. 7, 1996, hours after the rapper beat him up in the lobby of a Las Vegas casino. Tupac died on Sept. 13, 1996.
Here’s the indictment for Duane “Keffe D” Davis in Tupac’s murder, via Clark County DA.
It names the South Side Compton Crips and says Davis got the gun used in the murder “for the purpose of seeking retribution against Tupac Amaru Shakur and/or Marion Knight aka “Suge”….” pic.twitter.com/BY1BEQt4ul
— Meghann Cuniff (@meghanncuniff) September 29, 2023
The indictment stated that Davis provided the firearm to Anderson (or other co-conspirators in the car) to kill Tupac.
Davis is charged with murder with the use of a deadly weapon, a felony.
His nephew, Anderson, was himself shot and killed on May 29, 1998 at a car wash in Compton.
Tupac sold more than 75 million records worldwide. He was best known for hits such as “California Love”, “Dear Mama”, “All Eyez On Me” and “Changes.” His album All Eyez on Me (1996) was certified platinum to signify 10 million albums sold.
Tupac made the jump from rapping to the big screen in movies such as Juice (1992), Poetic Justice with Janet Jackson (1993), and Above the Rim (1994).
Fans have speculated that Tupac faked his own death because he released an album under the alias Makaveli, similar to the famous Italian philosopher, Niccolo Machiavelli, who advocated faking your own death to fool your enemies.
