TUPAC BOMBSHELL
A GANGSTER who bragged about being involved in the fatal shooting of Tupac Shakur has been arrested 27 years after the murder went unsolved.
Duane (Keefe D) Davis, 60, was arrested and charged with one count of murder with a deadly weapon on Friday morning, months after investigators raided a home in Las Vegas connected to the notorious Compton Crip gang leader.
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A Nevada grand jury indicted Keefe on Friday, Clark County Chief Deputy District Attorney, Marc DiGiacomo, said.
DiGiacomo has described Keefe as the "on-ground, on-site commander" who called for the death of Shakur, not a bystander.
After being asked if anyone else is being looked at in this case, police said Keefe is the "only living suspect."
"For 27 years, the family of Tupac Shakur has been waiting for justice," Clark County sheriff, Kevin McMahill, said at a news conference on Friday.
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“While I know there’s been many people who did not believe that the murder of Tupac Shakur was important to this police department, I’m here to tell you that is simply not the case.”
Another official addressed reporters saying: "Duane Davis was the shock collar for this group of individuals that committed this crime, and he orchestrated the plan that was carried out to commit this crime.
However, police say the investigation is far from over.
The arrest comes after Keefe, born Duane Davis, previously confessed to his role in the shooting of Tupac in interviews and in his book called Compton Street Legend.
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"As time went on, this case has been reviewed multiple times by different investigators assigned to my section, but it wasn't until 2018 that this case was reinvigorated, as additional information came to light related to this homicide," police lieutenant, Jason Johansson, told reporters at the press conference.
Johansson said Keefe's media interviews about his involvement in the case reinvigorated the investigation.
Never doesn't have a statute of limitations on murder cases.
Keefe has claimed on several occasions that he was riding shotgun in the white Cadillac and handed his nephew Orlando Anderson the handgun used to fire the fatal shots at the Death Row rapper near the Las Vegas strip on September 7, 1996.
Tupac died a week later from his wounds.
In his book, Keefe wrote, in his own words, about how he helped secure a gun to murder Tupac as revenge for the rapper beating up his nephew Anderson after a Mike Tyson fight in the MGM Grand earlier that night.
He detailed how he helped coordinate a team of fellow Los Angeles gangsters to shoot at the rap icon and Death Row record label executive Suge Knight.
In a confessional passage, Keefe threw the Glock pistol in the back of a Cadillac, where his nephew Anderson and another gangster sat.
Later after encountering the rapper by chance, Keefe revealed that shots were fired from behind him into Suge and Tupac's vehicle as they were driving along the Strip.
Keefe claimed that Tupac appeared to be reaching for a weapon before the execution, but his side fired first, effectively killing the rap star.
He also confessed to hiding the Cadillac and gun after the shooting and having it repainted, repaired, and returned to a car rental firm, making forensics tough to pin down.
Keefe's full admission appears in the chapter entitled The Main Event in Compton Street Legend.
HOLLYWOOD 'ASPIRATIONS'
The gangbanger even discussed developing a drama about his extraordinary life, an entertainment source exclusively revealed to The U.S. Sun.
Keefe approached a raft of Los Angeles production companies and even tried to work a connection to Ryan Seacrest to land a multimillion-dollar media deal.
An entertainment insider revealed: “Keefe has been very open about his aspirations to make a film or TV show about his life.
"He has been happy to trade on the infamy of being part of the crew that took down Tupac, and he feels it can be taken to the next level."
“He was connected to some producers, who he said were interested in building out the project," they continued.
"But he also admitted that finance was needed to get the project off the ground."
"[Keefe D] was saying that he had a connection to Ryan Seacrest, although no one was sure whether that was real or not," the insider explained.
“Certainly, the content Keefe was suggesting would be controversial, heated, and R-rated."
They added: “He seemed to have no care about incriminating himself in a raft of crimes and opening up about gang connections."
"The issue for any network was always going to be how audiences reacted to his play-by-play on how Tupac was hunted down by his gang and killed by his nephew.”
“He saw the NWA film Straight Outta Compton and felt he needed to get his story out as it would be as big.”
'LONG OVERDUE'
After Las Vegas law enforcement officials searched through the home on July 17, which was said to belong to Keefe D's wife, they found several key items, per the Associated Press.
Cops reportedly found a Vibe magazine with Tupac featured in the issue, along with .40-caliber bullets, several computers, a cell phone, a hard drive, and “tubs containing photographs.”
A copy of Compton Street Legend was also discovered.
Retired Los Angeles detective Greg Kading, who investigated the case after it happened and later wrote a book about it, said Keefe D's arrest has been a long time coming.
“It’s so long overdue,” the detective told AP in 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 claimed of Tupac's murder.
The Los Angeles detective also explained that he previously interviewed and questioned Keefe D between 2008 and 2009 about Tupac's murder and possible information on Biggie Smalls' killing.
He believed the case gained considerable momentum after Keefe D was so public with descriptions about what allegedly happened the night the rap icon was killed.
“It’s those events that have given Las Vegas the ammunition and the leverage to move forward,” Kading said of what's detailed in Compton Street Legend.
“Prior to Keefe D’s public declarations, the cases were unprosecutable as they stood.”
Kading added: "He put himself squarely in the middle of the conspiracy.”
“[Keefe D] 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.”
The detective also confirmed Keefe D is the last living witness in the vehicle where the shots were allegedly fired from into the black BMW sedan that Tupac and Suge were driving in on September 7, 1996.
Keefe D's nephew Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, Terrence “Bubble Up” Brown, and DeAndre “Freaky” Smith were the others — all of whom have since died.
Kading said he thinks Keefe D could face a first-degree murder charge if the killing is determined as premeditated.
“It’s a concerted effort of conspirators,” he told AP.
“All the other direct conspirators or participants are all dead."
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“Keefe D is the last man standing among the individuals that conspired to kill Tupac.”
The U.S. Sun has contacted the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department for an update on the arrest and the expected indictment.