More than 25 years after the killing of Tupac Shakur became a defining tragedy in hip-hop, a self-described gang member who has repeatedly proclaimed that he participated in the drive-by shooting of the rapper was indicted on a murder charge, Las Vegas prosecutors announced on Friday, reviving a blockbuster investigation that had long stalled.

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The man, Duane Keith Davis, has said in interviews and a memoir that he was in the passenger seat of the white Cadillac that pulled up near the vehicle holding Shakur on a night in 1996, after a Mike Tyson-Bruce Seldon prizefight in Las Vegas.

Shot four times, the 25-year-old rapper died at a hospital less than a week later.

A grand jury in Clark County indicted Davis on one count of murder with use of a deadly weapon and with the intent to promote, further or assist a criminal gang, a prosecutor said in court on Friday. The prosecutor said Davis was in custody; his arrest was first reported by The Associated Press.

Despite plentiful speculation, evidence and reporting surrounding the murder across the span of nearly three decades, no charges had ever been filed in the shooting of Tupac, who had already become one of the most popular artists of the 1990s, with tracks that brought poetic gravitas to confrontational gangster rap. But talk of the case was revived in July, when the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department executed a search warrant at a home in Henderson, Nev., connected to Davis.

Marc DiGiacomo, a chief deputy district attorney in Clark County, said in court on Friday that Davis — who has described himself as a “shot caller” and “five-star general” for a local gang — was the “on-ground, on-site commander” who “ordered the death” of Shakur and the attempted murder of Marion Knight, the rap mogul known as Suge, who was driving the car holding the rapper.

Davis, who goes by the name Keffe D, recounted the events leading up to and after the shooting in his 2019 memoir, describing a gang dispute that escalated after Shakur and his associates beat up Davis’s nephew, Orlando Anderson, following the boxing match at the MGM Grand hotel.

“Them jumping on my nephew gave us the ultimate green light to do something,” Davis said in the memoir, “Compton Street Legend.” “Tupac chose the wrong game to play.”

DiGiacomo acknowledged in court on Friday that the broad outlines of what occurred that night were known to the police as far back as 1996.

“What was lacking was admissible evidence to establish this chain of events that occurred that night,” the prosecutor said, noting that Davis then began to describe his role publicly, starting with a 2018 television appearance. “He admitted within that book that he did acquire the firearm with the intent to go hunt down Mr. Shakur and Mr. Knight; he admitted to being the front-right passenger in the white Cadillac.”

Davis avoided directly naming the person who opened fire in recent interviews. But in a taped confession released by a former Los Angeles Police Department detective who investigated Shakur’s murder, Davis told the police that it had been Anderson, his nephew, who was known as Baby Lane.

Anderson was questioned by officers investigating Shakur’s death but was killed in a shooting in 1998. Davis has said he is the only person still alive who was in the Cadillac that night.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/29/arts/music/tupac-shakur-murder-charge-arrest.html

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