Nominated six times for a Grammy Award, Shakur is still largely considered one of the most influential and versatile rappers of all time.

The rapper’s death came as his fourth solo album, “All Eyez on Me,” remained on the charts, with some 5 million copies sold. Shakur was shot multiple times and died a week later.

They were waiting at a red light near the Las Vegas Strip when a white Cadillac pulled up next to them and gunfire erupted. 7, 1996, Shakur was in a BMW driven by Death Row Records founder Marion “Suge” Knight in a convoy of about 10 cars. Messages left Friday for his wife, Paula Clemons, also weren’t returned. Davis hasn’t responded to multiple phone and text messages from The Associated Press seeking comment since the house raid. It wasn’t immediately clear if Davis has an attorney who can comment on his behalf. On Friday, Clark County District Judge Jerry Wiese denied Davis bail. The charges were revealed hours after Davis, 60, was arrested this morning while on a walk near his home in the Las Vegas suburb of Henderson, according to DiGiacomo. LAS VEGAS - One of the last living witnesses to the fatal drive-by shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas was charged with murder Friday in the 1996 killing, a long-awaited breakthrough in a case that has frustrated investigators and fascinated the public.Ī Nevada grand jury indicted Duane “Keffe D” Davis on one count of murder with a deadly weapon, Clark County Chief Deputy District Attorney Marc DiGiacomo announced in court Friday.ĭavis has long been known to investigators and has himself admitted in interviews and in his 2019 tell-all memoir, “Compton Street Legend,” that he was in the Cadillac from which the gunfire erupted during the September 1996 drive-by shooting.ĭiGiacomo described Davis as the “on-ground, on-site commander” who “ordered the death” of Shakur, who was killed at 25.

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