Tupac Shakur’s stepbrother breaks silence as gangster Keefe D, 60, is arrested for rapper’s murder after 27 years
TUPAC Shakur’s stepbrother has spoken out after gangster Keefe D was arrested for the rapper’s murder 27 years after the fatal shooting.
On Friday morning, Duane (Keefe D) Davis, 60, was arrested and charged with Tupac’s murder, months after Las Vegas police raided a home connected to the infamous Compton Crip gang leader.
Tupac’s stepbrother, Mopreme Shakur, called Keefe’s arrest “bittersweet” in an interview with CNN.
“We have been through decades of pain,” he said. “They have known about this guy, who been running his mouth, for years.”
“So why now? For us, this is not over. We want to know why, and if there were any accomplices,” Mopreme said.
Tupac was killed in a drive-by shooting near the Las Vegas strip in Nevada on September 7, 1996.
He was found slumped in a crashed BMW after bullets were fired from a semi-automatic weapon by men in a white Cadillac.
His murder went unsolved for years, but in 2018 there was a break in the case.
Jason Johansson, Las Vegas Police Department Lieutenant, told reporters after Keefe’s arrest: “As time went on, this case has been reviewed multiple times by different investigators assigned to my section, but it wasn’t until 2018 that this case was reinvigorated, as additional information came to light related to this homicide.”
Keefe previously confessed to playing a role in the 1996 shooting in interviews and in his book called Compton Street Legend.
Johansson said Keefe’s media interviews about his role in Tupac’s murder reinvigorated the investigation.
Keefe claimed on several occasions that he was riding in the passenger seat of the white Cadillac and handed his nephew Orlando Anderson the handgun used to kill Tupac.
Keefe wrote in his book that he helped secure a gun for a revenge killing after Tupac beat up Anderson following a Mike Tyson fight in the MGM Grand earlier that night.
He explained how he helped coordinate a team of fellow Los Angeles gangsters to shoot the rapper and Death Row record label executive Suge Knight, who was not killed in the attack.
Police said Keefe is the “only living suspect” in Tupac’s murder. There is no statute of limitations on murder cases in Nevada.
“For 27 years, the family of Tupac Shakur has been waiting for justice,” Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill, said on Friday.
“While I know there’s been many people who did not believe that the murder of Tupac Shakur was important to this police department, I’m here to tell you that is simply not the case.”