Man tied to drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur arrested: Report

A man was arrested Friday in connection with the 1996 shooting death of rapper Tupac Shakur.

Las Vegas Police arrested Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 60, but the charges against him aren’t clear, according to sources cited by the Associated Press. Police have been focusing their investigation on Davis, raiding his wife’s home in Henderson, Nevada, in July in connection with the case.

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Davis has confirmed that he was in the same Cadillac as the gunman who opened fire on Shakur, who was 25 at the time and died a week later. He claimed the gunfire came from the back seat of the car, while he was in the front seat. Davis made this admission in 2010 while he was facing a life-long sentence for drug charges.

The late Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson was implicated by Davis, who is his uncle, as one of the two people in the back seat. Anderson was 21 at the time and had been involved in a brawl with Shakur three weeks earlier in the MGM Grand Hotel following a Mike Tyson fight. At the time, Anderson was an alleged member of an opposing gang, the South Side Crips, and would die two years later in another shooting in Compton, California. Before he died, he denied being involved in Shakur’s murder.

As for the other two in the car at the time, Terrence “Bubble Up” Brown and DeAndre “Freaky” Smith, they have also since died, leaving Davis as the lone surviving witness.

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Shakur had just released his fourth solo album when he died. He would go on to be nominated for a Grammy eight times in his career. The rapper also appeared in six movies as a budding actor.

The arrest of Davis is the first arrest made in Shakur’s murder case.