Shakur was in Las Vegas to attend a Mike Tyson boxing match at MGM Grand Hotel – an event that Davis and his nephew Orlando Anderson also attended.Īfter the match, members of Death Row Records saw Anderson near elevator bank inside the hotel, approached him and began kicking and punching him, Johansson said Friday during the news conference, where he showed hotel surveillance footage of the altercation. Davis was affiliated with the Southside Compton Crips, he added. Shakur and Marion “Suge” Knight, then the CEO of the rapper’s label Death Row Records, were affiliated with the Mob Piru gang in Compton, Johansson said. Shakur’s shooting stems from a conflict between two gangs based in Compton, California, police said Friday. Here’s what we know about Davis, what led up to the shooting and his indictment and arrest.ĭuane Keith 'Keffe D' Davis has been charged in connection with the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur.

“Over the last five years, we’ve conducted countless interviews and corroborated numerous facts that were not only consistent with the crime scene on the night of the incident, but also corroborated and were consistent with the sequence of events that night,” Jason Johansson, a Las Vegas police homicide lieutenant, said during a news conference Friday. Davis has said in a memoir that he’s one of two living witnesses – with the other being a record-label boss who was driving Shakur.

Authorities allege Davis plotted and orchestrated the shooting in a matter of hours, after the rapper and others attacked Davis’ nephew that same day.ĭavis is the only suspect in the case who still is alive, police say. The shooting on September 7, 1996, was a retaliatory attack on the 25-year-old star, police said Friday.

Suspect arrested in 1996 Tupac Shakur shooting death (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images) Ron Galella, Ltd/Getty Images Tupac Shakur attends 'Cowboy Noir - Red Rock West' Party at Club USA in New York City on April 2, 1994.

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