The mystery surrounding the killing of popular rapper Tupac Shakur 27 years ago is about to be unraveled as a team of Las Vegas detectives have said they have a strong case against Duane Keith Davis known as Keefe D.
Keefe D. is a gang member of the South Side Compton Crips and according to various reports the Last Vegas district attorney’s office is ready to present their case to a grand jury ‘imminently’, implicating him, the police said.
Tupac was fatally shot in 1996 at the age of 25 in what was alleged to be gang-related hit but no arrests have ever been made for his murder.
The case was brought back into the spotlight in July when Las Vegas police confirmed they had reopened investigations into Tupac’s murder, with a search conducted nearby the City of Henderson in Nevada.
It is reported that a grand jury will decide in the next month whether the evidence is strong enough to prosecute Keefe D, a 60-year-old gangster, who had previously admitted his involvement in the rapper’s murder. He is alleged to have made confessions in multiple interviews including in his memoir, Compton Street Legend.
‘’Tupac chose the wrong game to play and the wrong niggas to play with. Suge and them should have done a better job of protecting that dude. He shouldn’t have ever gotten involved in that bullshit of trying to be a thug’’, he is quoted as saying.
In an A&E’s documentary Who Killed Tupac? Keefe D is said to have explained how he and his associates pulled up in a white Cadillac alongside the black BMW that Shakur and Death Row Records founder, Marion ‘Suge’ Knight were in, while it stopped at a red light and one person opened fire piercing the passenger side of the car with bullets.
Sitting on that side, the rap icon was shot four times, twice in the chest, one bullet in the arm and one in the thigh. He succumbed to his wounds 6 days after the shooting.
September 7 marks the 27th anniversary of Tupac’s death.
Should a grand jury decide the evidence handed over to prosecute Keefe is conclusive, the court will proceed with the case.
