https://abcnews.go.com/US/suspect-arrested-tupac-murder/story?id=103603653

Whoa...I honestly thought they would never get anywhere in either Tupac or BIG's deaths.

I'm curious about how they got this guy.

Wonder what changed to actually be able to charge him.

...if you show up on Vlad and other platforms talking greasy for years, you might get got?? lol

google "vlad is the cops"

and vlad himself, if you assume he's just too stupid to keep from sending people to jail by posting evidence of their crimes


either he's the world's largest idiot or

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

Maybe it's his Uncle?

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

Our local paper has a much thorough story, including the name and some background on the suspect.

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https://www.tampabay.com/news/nation-world/2023/09/29/man-tied-suspected-shooter-tupac-shakurs-killing-arrested-ap-sources-say/

LAS VEGAS — Las Vegas police have arrested a man in the deadly 1996 drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur, a long-awaited break in a case that has frustrated investigators and fascinated the public ever since the hip-hop icon was gunned down on the Las Vegas Strip 27 years ago.

Duane “Keffe D” Davis was arrested early Friday morning, although the exact charge or charges were not immediately clear, according to two officials with first-hand knowledge of the arrest. They were not authorized to speak publicly ahead of an expected indictment later Friday.

Davis 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 where the gunfire erupted during the September 1996 drive-by shooting. Shakur was 25 when he was gunned down.

The arrest comes two months after Las Vegas police raided his wife’s home July 17 in neighboring Henderson. Documents said police were looking for items “concerning the murder of Tupac Shakur.”

Police reported collecting multiple computers, a cellphone and hard drive, a Vibe magazine that featured Shakur, several .40-caliber bullets, two “tubs containing photographs” and a copy of Davis’ 2019 tell-all memoir, “Compton Street Legend.”

In the book, Davis said he broke his silence over Tupac’s killing in 2010 during a closed-door meeting with federal and local authorities. At the time, he was 46 and facing life in prison on drug charges when he agreed to speak with the authorities.

“They promised they would shred the indictment and stop the grand jury if I helped them out,” he wrote.

He has described himself as one of the last living witnesses to the shooting.

Shakur was 25 when he was gunned down in a drive-by shooting near the Las Vegas Strip on the night of Sept. 7, 1996. The rapper was in a BMW driven by Death Row Records founder Marion “Suge” Knight in a convoy of about 10 cars. They were waiting at a red light when a white Cadillac pulled up next to them and gunfire erupted.

Shakur was shot multiple times and died a week later.

In 2018, after a cancer diagnosis, Davis admitted publicly in an interview for a BET show to being inside the Cadillac during the attack. He implicated his nephew, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, saying he was one of two people in the back seat where the shots were fired.

The shooting happened shortly after a casino brawl earlier in the evening involving Anderson, Shakur and others.

Anderson denied any involvement in the Shakur shooting. He died two years later in a shooting in Compton, California.

Shakur’s death came as his fourth solo album, “All Eyez on Me,” remained on the charts, with some 5 million copies sold. Nominated six times for a Grammy Award, Shakur is largely considered one of the most influential and versatile rappers of all time.

Shakur was feuding at the time with rap rival Biggie Smalls, also known as the Notorious B.I.G., who was fatally shot in March 1997. At the time, both rappers were in the middle of an East Coast-West Coast rivalry that primarily defined the hip-hop scene during the mid-1990s.

Greg Kading, a retired Los Angeles police detective who spent years investigating the Shakur killing and wrote a book about it, said he would not be surprised by Davis’s indictment and arrest.

“It’s so long overdue,” Kading told The Associated Press during a recent interview. “People have been yearning for him to be arrested for a long time. It’s never been unsolved in our minds. It’s been unprosecuted.”

Kading said he interviewed Davis in 2008 and 2009, during Los Angeles police investigations of the killings of Shakur in Las Vegas and the slaying of Biggie Smalls.

ots were fired at Shakur and rapper Marion “Suge” Knight. Others were Davis’s nephew, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, Terrence “Bubble Up” Brown and DeAndre “Freaky” Smith.

“It’s a concerted effort of conspirators,” Kading said, adding that he believed that because the killing was premeditated Davis could face a first-degree murder charge.

“All the other direct conspirators or participants are all dead,” Kading said. “Keefe D is the last man standing among the individuals that conspired to kill Tupac.”

Pac stomped Orlando, Orlando round up the gang and shot Tupac. The conspiracies were all over the place.

And then when Duane “Keffe D” Davis was given the opportunity to knock some time off his unrelated sentence, he spent this yarn about Puffy hiring him to do it. It just kind of blows my mind is that the investigator Kading bought into the Puffy theory. That is, Tupac happened to stomp out the guy who was hired to kill him by Diddy.






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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

All the conspiracy theories got on my nerves, so I kinda gave up on following the story after a couple of years. I hadn't heard anything about this Davis guy before.

https://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=4&topic_id=12928854&mesg_id=12928854&listing_type=search

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

If Orlando killed Tupac over the hotel stomp-out, why did Suge kill BIG in retaliation? There weren't any connections between Orlando and Puff or BIG, right? Was it because Suge hated the idea of Puffy & BIG continuing to shine while his meal ticket had been killed?

I don't know if Suge thought Diddy was behind Tupac's death or if it has something to do with Diddy kicking it with, and paying crips for protection after Tupac's death.


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

Run the light, etc. I would do more YouTube
scrolling if you want the details.

I’m not sure it was a Suge hit as much as
general get back.

BIG was warned not to go to LA. He didn’t
want to go to LA.

Guess who talked him into it?

Diddy can make all the reality shows and
fake RnB albums he wants….he’s not the guy
he wants you to think he is.

No better than Suge just sneaky and not as
bold.

Did he put a price on Pac/Suge heads? Did he
say so jokingly? Did he really call after Vegas
and ask “was that us?” ?

I mean…none of it is hard to believe. His own
body guard is spilling shit.

Either way, if it wasn’t for Puff and his backers
there’s a decent chance both BIG and Pac are still here.

If nothing else the 94 shooting was a catalyst
for all of it.

None of this is out of bounds when you think
about what’s happened to other artists/people
around Diddy.

Not sure how anyone- especially hip hop fans-
can stomach him.

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

the story is Puffy had bounties out on DR chains as well as Pac and Suge's heads. He didn't hire a specific person.


Pac and them jump Orlando because he had one of those chains.


He runs to Keefe, etc....and they figure lets get paid.


Keefe acquires a gun, the shit goes down.


I'm not saying this happened- I'm saying this story (that several have told) makes a lot more sense than he hired Keefe or Orlando specifically and Pac just happened to jump Orlando.


Stop and think about the people around Puffy who either ended up dead, in jail, or careers busted.

And if you have any sense of how Bad Boy was funded, and realize how close the gang ties were there, it is not that much of a stretch.

Puffy is a motherfucking snake, yall.

https://youtu.be/-uoV5FJsv0o?si=ZXYoGYll2VkQ9gMv

https://youtu.be/hLcsiIdONxQ?si=WU4qabDTrFa4fKSl

for about the last 5 to 7 years. I figured he wanted to get arrested on some guilty conscience shit so he could get right with G_d. It's borderline anti-climactic because he's gone into specifics of exactly whwt happened so many times over the years.

Why do folks go on their an admit their crimes!??!

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

interviews.

Pee Way Long Way showed every body the way.

He didnt. He said they wanted all the uncut footage. He declined. He said he got an attorney and the cops never got a warrant. Thy built the case from youtube 😃

these folks are just dumb.

accidentally videotapes people confessing to crimes that they later go to jail for

over and over and over again

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

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and possibly incriminate themselves.

for this case, this guy has been talking for years. and not just on vlad.

would you keep doing it?

if you weren't a law enforcement agent?


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decided to do, would you keep interviewing?

on the same platform and others?

if the rumor is Vlad is fed, would you talk with him multiple times?

would you write a book about it?

aren't dummies?

I guess you're not going to answer the question.

do you want to say why you don't want to answer the question?

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

he's slimey, but again, that doesn't make him fed.

what evidence do you have that he's fed or are you just speculating?

all you have to do is answer the question I asked

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you still haven't said what evidence you have.

>>if you did a show where many of your guests sent themselves to jail
Mon Oct-02-23 08:29 AM
In response to Reply # 29

would you keep doing it?


evidence of what?

that people went to jail?

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

And the fact that he likely would doesn't mean he's working for the feds. It means that he thinks it gets him more money through his channel.

Vlad has always been about asking purposely "provocative" questions that will generate lots of clicks for his videos. They all follow the same formula, no matter who he's interviewing.

Lord Jamar? Ask him about white rappers.

Boosie? Ask him if he thinks the Barbie movie is turning people gay.

Any guest of his accused of or believed to have committed some sort of crime? Ask him about the details. If he "confesses"? Great! More clicks for the channel. And more money for him.

Dummies confessing shit on video is just another revenue stream for him.

its always gotta be some deep conspiracy instead of the simple concept that it is.

is the most lucrative hustle on youtube?

the part where you immediately jump to THAT DOESN'T MEAN VLAD IS WORKING WITH THE FEDS aside

is that the way you think youtube works?



all you have to do is answer the question that's asked, not replace it with a different question.

you said you wouldn't keep doing a show like that. What do you think is different about you and DJ vlad? I assume you also like money, which you say is his motivation. so why wouldn't you send people to jail for sweet youtube revenue?

are you just stupid and vlad is smart?

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

You can argue about whether or not what Vlad and other similar platforms are doing is "Journalism", for whatever that's worth.

But any dummy can get a journalism degree (Hell, even I've got one!)

If you come on my show and you're famous for putting out a book made up of stories of your life as a gangster involved in multiple crimes, including being directly involved in one of the most infamous/unsolved murders of the late 20th century, I'm not sure what else I'm supposed to ask you about as an interviewer.

I think he does that on purpose

I'm not sure what makes people think vlad looks at the arrests and says "man I wonder why that keeps happening"

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

i wouldnt say Vlad is purposely trying to send people to jail

a lil oopsie daisie

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I do think that the feds aren't above watching his shows and he has no problem with letting his guest say stuff that will get them hemmed up.

Of course the guest are grownup and should no better, but VLAD doesn't help and actually profits from his guest putting their business out there.

I mean VLAD is out in other videos bragging that that he solved the Tupac murder!!


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

i agree.

i would even go further and say he PREFERS his guests say incriminating things to get his clicks and views up

is it despicable? yep!

thats life.
move accordingly, period.
if not, thats on YOU

i expect Vlad to be Vlad
you dont? thats your problem.

our culture struggles with that.

the kind of person who says "the only possible reason for trying to get people to incriminate themselves on camera is for views" is the kind of mind that I need to face in a game of skill with money on the line

there's gotta be easier ways to get youtube views

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

He wasn't keeping his involvement with this a secret. He's been milking it for $ for years.

About 5-7 videos kinda laid out the whole shit, but since they were all freely talking about it on YT, I assumed no law enforcement agency really gave a shit.

a dummy who also just got charged himself based off content HE put out there

https://youtu.be/C91mCPeWAjI?si=GpeXWMfPO5UYbjsK

“Thank you, god bless and goodnight.”

That’s all you say if Vlad asks you anything that’s not fluff.

https://youtu.be/Ra2o_Yl-dvs?si=7WxwMqrdVO2HWO81

Wrote a book, told the cops his version of what happened that night etc etc.

It's all public information.

I think what's happened is that he might have accidentally switched up the story recently and the cops nabbed him on that, because he's really the only person alive left to tell the story.



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I've never gotten a guest arrested for murder or had the episode used as evidence.

it'd be a weird coincidence if it happened like a dozen times, right?


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the questions are CLEARLY something a guest who is or has been involved in criminal activity should NOT be answering, if they do….thats on them

but I have no control over what happens

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

Fuck Vlad because his platform is evil and a disservice to hip-hop.

Keefe D allegedly signed a proffer agreement to get out of a life sentence. He gave up information on the 2pac case initially in that agreement. He probably thought his life was at it's end when he dealt with cancer in 2018 when he spoke on this again. He kept talking about 2pac's murder going into intricate detail until they had enough evidence to indict him. Bragging about this murder for years made Las Vegas police look bad to the extent they reopened the case.

He did this to himself.

Also,

As Greg Kading said (also on Vlad), a proffer agreement is not total immunity. It is confined to that interview only.

He has never been protected by any agreement since his initial interview.

He gives folks the platform to let the police build a case against them. He does it in open public.

Like the Tupac murder, folks are seeing mystery and conspiracies in things that are simple and done out in the open.


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

the number one problem with calling vlad an undercover cop is that he is not undercover at all

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

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Then and now.

and yet, niggas go on there, incriminate themselves and blame Vlad

already did time for the crimes they're talking about.

These young rappers (or in Keefe's case Author/Gang Banger) are the only one's I see getting up and talking about crimes they've committed within the statute of limitations that they haven't been arrested for.

Self snitching in rap is at an all time high, I'm mad that the #1 Self snitcher is from my town.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv8gWOHeza0

A lot of these new "Drill/Street" rappers are getting temporary clout and money from going on songs/youtube videos talking about crimes they actually committed and don't have the talent/creativity to make music about anything else.

https://youtu.be/Ra2o_Yl-dvs?si=7WxwMqrdVO2HWO81

see, its not hard at all

It's a weird focus on the story that one of the biggest "unsolved" hip-hop mysteries is finally leading to some arrests.


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

where they have to respond that way

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

https://youtu.be/pOT_Y2dgiF4?si=fAou_ii_wTSHBoo0

He's just saying that because he's "not supposed to snitch".

Gosh, that guy has always been so compassionate. Always thinking of others.

And there is a strong case that it could have been him who was the shooter (he better matched the description) but who cares. There were three people in the car riding around with an intent to kill Tupac, 2 of those guys are dead, now the last person in the car is being arrested.

Also, don't believe Suge or Keefe at this point. These are terrible people.


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

His name keep comin up and “THEY” not letting shit slide. Will be interesting to see it play out.

Mainly because Keefy D tried to invole Diddy in it YEARS ago but it never pans out.

Like the idea that DIddy tried to pay for the hit but the dude Zip never delivered the money doesn't make sense. Someone gonna steal a million bucks from the bloods and they let him live?

Keefe D has been trying to bring in Diddy to get his time lowered for all this time but there isn't a single person who was there and knows what happened who is publicly pointing their finger at Diddy.

I think if the feds could have stuck something on Diddy, they would have been done done it.

Or charges could be announced next week, who knows.


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

keefe been tellin on himself for a decade and it’s been a game of telephone in the city way before vlad. who knows what took em so long.

if im dude i dont wanna see my name in this shit AT ALL. known fact he was kickin it with them niggas back when. the two sides only beefed in front of the world lol. mase on his sports podcast bein cheeky etc etc.

he def gone sweat this shit out for a min.

and the culture doesn't seem to care.

https://trends.google.com/explore?q=tupac&date=all&geo=US


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

by old, I mean us.

vlad and keefe d also to the steam out of the curiosity.

https://www.spinmagazine.com/2026/09/tupac-shakur-murder-trial/

News


Nearly 30 Years Later, Tupac Murder Case Ends In First Conviction


Duane 'Keffe D' Davis was found guilty of orchestrating attack


Written by SPIN Staff |


September 1, 2026 - 10:59 am

Nearly 30 years after Tupac Shakur was killed in a Las Vegas drive-by shooting, the long-running case has finally produced its first conviction.

Duane “Keffe D” Davis, the former South Side Compton Crips leader who was the only person ever charged in the 1996 murder, was found guilty Monday (Aug. 31) of first-degree murder with a deadly weapon. The Las Vegas jury reached its verdict after less than three hours of deliberation. Davis, 63, could face life in prison, with sentencing scheduled for October. He said he plans to appeal.

Davis was not accused of pulling the trigger. Prosecutors argued that he orchestrated the attack, obtained the gun and directed the younger men in the white Cadillac from which Shakur was shot. Their case centered in large part on Davis’ own words over the years, including statements to investigators, appearances in documentaries and his 2019 memoir, Compton Street Legend.

The defense maintained that those accounts were exaggerated or fabricated for money and notoriety, pointing to the absence of physical evidence independently placing Davis in the Cadillac that night. His attorney also argued that investigators had failed to corroborate important details of Davis’ various accounts. Davis himself did not testify during the trial.


The prosecution’s narrative dates back to an altercation earlier on Sept. 7, 1996, when Shakur and others beat up Davis’ nephew, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, during a casino confrontation. Later that night, Shakur was riding in a BMW with Death Row Records co-founder Marion “Suge” Knight when a white Cadillac pulled alongside them at a red light. Gunfire struck Shakur multiple times; he died six days later at the age of 25. Knight survived.

The shooting unfolded against the backdrop of the gang and record-label rivalries that had become intertwined with hip-hop’s East Coast-West Coast conflict. Witnesses described the rivalry between the Mob Piru Bloods, associated with Shakur and Knight’s Death Row Records, and the South Side Compton Crips, with the latter linked to Sean “Diddy” Combs’ Bad Boy Records. The murder of the Notorious B.I.G. six months after Shakur’s death was also revisited during the trial; that case remains unsolved.

Davis’ own evolving account ultimately helped bring the case back into focus. Prosecutors presented statements from a 2008 federal interview, a 2009 interview with Las Vegas police, a 2017 documentary interview and his memoir. In those accounts, Davis repeatedly placed himself in the Cadillac and said he handed a gun to the men in the backseat, though he did not consistently identify the person who fired the fatal shots.

The verdict brought an emotional conclusion to a trial that had drawn Shakur’s family, longtime fans and a steady media presence to the Las Vegas courtroom. After the verdict was read, Shakur’s sister, Sekyiwa “Set” Shakur, cried and hugged prosecutors, while Davis’ son covered his face with his hand.