The first arrest in Tupac’s murder case, explained
thefader.comTupac Shakur’s unsolved murder is one of history’s highest-profile cold cases. Despite the mountains of evidence uncovered by independent investigations, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department failed to make a single arrest directly related to the case for 27 years.
Until very recently, it seemed as though the people responsible for Tupac’s death would never be tried in a court of law. But on Friday, September 29, Duane Keith “Keffe D” Davis — a man whose name is infamous among those who’ve followed the case through the years — was arrested and charged with murder.
In a press conference, LVMPD Homicide Lieutenant Jason Johansson said the department does not believe Davis was the person who fatally shot Tupac on September 7, 1996, but he described Davis as the “shot caller” of the plan to kill Shakur, claiming he passed the murder weapon to the shooter immediately before the shooting took place.
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