Duane Davis has been Charged With Murder Of Tupac Shakur Following Decades Of Investigations

Duane “Keffe D” Davis, the man who admitted to being in the car used to gun down Tupac Shakur in 1996, was arrested and indicted Friday in Las Vegas for the murder of the legendary rapper, according to multiple sources.

“It has often been said ‘justice delayed is justice denied,’ it’s a quote we hear often and for many many years when talking about our legal system,” Wolfson said in a press conference. “But not in this case. Today justice will be served in the murder of Tupac Shukur.”

Shakur, one of hip-hop’s most revered and beloved figures, was nominated for six Grammy awards and was one of the first artists to be inducted into the Hip Hop Hall of Fame in 2002. Shakur was a passenger in a BMW driven by Death Row Records co-founder Marion “Suge” Knight on the night of September 7, 1996. The vehicle was part of a larger convoy departing from a Mike Tyson boxing match in Las Vegas and was hit in a drive-by shooting involving a white Cadillac. Shakur was shot four times in the attack and died six days later at the age of 25. Ever since, investigators haven’t been able to crack the case, which also involved the murder of Yafeu Fula, a witness to the drive-by who was seated in the car behind Shakur’s when the drive-by occurred.

Shakur was not the only prominent rapper murdered in a drive-by shooting in the late 1990s. Christopher Wallace, the trailblazing rapper from Brooklyn, New York, better known as the Notorious B.I.G., was also killed in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles six months after Shakur was killed. The murder remains unsolved. Rumors and theories surrounding the killings of the two hip-hop icons have been cemented in pop culture for decades, circulating through documentaries, songs and blogs.