Newly released police body camera video shows the arrest of Duane “Keffe D” Davis on suspicion of murder in the 1996 shooting of Tupac Shakur off the Las Vegas Strip. Davis was walking near his home in a residential area outside Las Vegas when Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officers approached to arrest him. Later, while in a police vehicle, someone asked why he was being arrested. Davis replied, “Biggest case in Las Vegas history.” He later added “September 7th, 1996.” Authorities allege that Davis orchestrated the killing and provided the gun. His first court appearance was cut short when he asked the judge for a postponement while he retains counsel.
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Later, while parked and with neither Davis nor officers visible on camera, someone out of the frame asked, “So what they got you for, man?” “Biggest case in Las Vegas history,” Davis replied. After being asked if it was recent, he added, “September 7th, 1996,” which is the night Shakur, then 25, was fatally shot.
Police and prosecutors say Davis orchestrated the killing of the hip-hop icon and provided his nephew, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, with the gun to do it. Anderson, who denied involvement in Shakur’s killing, died in 1998. Davis had been a long-known suspect in the case, and publicly admitted his role in the killing in interviews ahead of his 2019 tell-all memoir, “Compton Street Legend.”this week was cut short when he asked the judge for a postponement while he retains counsel. He’s due in court again Oct. 19.
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