Duane 'Keffe D' Davis has been arrested for the 1996 drive-by execution of Tupac Shakur.
The development is a major breakthrough in one of the world's most high-profile unsolved murders in recent times. Shakur was gunned down on 7 September 1996 after attending a Mike Tyson fight at the MGM Grand Hotel. Shakur, born Lesane Parish Crooks, was 25 years old.
Davis, whose late nephew Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson was considered a suspect in Shakur’s murder, has long been known to investigators. The rapper was involved in a scuffle with Anderson and several others in the hotel lobby; three hours later, while he was headed to an afterparty with Death Row Records founder Marion 'Suge' Knight in a convoy of about 10 cars, another car pulled up next to Shakur’s BMW at a red light and opened fire. Shakur was shot four times.
AAP reports, Anderson admitted in interviews and his 2019 tell-all memoir, Compton Street Legend, that he was in the front passenger seat of the white Cadillac from which gunfire erupted during the September 1996 shooting. Davis was a leader of the South Side Crips gang and wrote in his book about “running a multimillion-dollar nationwide drug empire”.
