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Published September 30, 2023, 7:37 PM ET
Las Vegas police may have waited years to arrest Duane “Keefe D” Davis in connection with Tupac Shakur’s murder so he could freely give them more evidence to build a case. Getty Images
Police likely waited years before arresting the man who had spoken openly about his involvement in the killing of Tupac Shakur so he could provide a “compilation” of confessions, a retired detective who once investigated the shocking murder said. told The Post.
On Friday, Las Vegas police arrested and charged with murder Duane “Keefe D” Davis, who revealed in a documentary interview five years ago that he was riding in a white Cadillac where a gunman in the back seat opened fire in Sin City in 1996 Tupac’s BMW opened.
Davis and others in the Cadillac were reportedly members of Los Angeles’ notorious South Side Compton Crips street gang, while Tupac was affiliated with the Bloods, a rival LA gang.
Greg Kading, a retired Los Angeles Police Department homicide detective, said Las Vegas police likely delayed his arrest because Davis revealed his connections to the shooting in interviews and then wrote a tell-all memoir so he could continue to provide additional evidence could present a valid case.
“Maybe they wanted to say, ‘He’s already tied the noose, now we’re going to hang him,'” speculated Kading, who previously investigated Shakur’s murder.
“‘You didn’t just say it twice, you didn’t just say it five times,’ and now you have this compilation of so many confessions,” Kading said, adding, “The perception is that it’s going to be like this.” It falls It’s hard to tell him at this point, ‘Hey, I was just bragging and making something up.'”
Davis shared his ties to the Las Vegas shooting in a 2018 interview and in his 2019 memoir, LVMPD/MEGA
In 2018, after he was diagnosed with cancer, Davis brazenly shared details about the drive-by shooting with BET, including that he was in the front seat of the Cadillac.
A year later, Davis portrayed himself as one of the last living witnesses to Tupac’s murder in his 2019 memoir “Compton Street Legend,” recounting details of the assassination.
“One of my guys in the back seat grabbed the Glock and ran,” Davis wrote. “As the bullets continued to fly, I ducked to avoid being hit.”
Tupac died just days after being shot at a Las Vegas intersection.The LIFE Picture Collection/Gett
Davis also claimed in his book that his nephew Orlando Anderson, who was also a member of the South Side Compton Crips, fatally shot Tupac.
Anderson, who died in 1998, denied any involvement in Shakur’s murder and was never charged.
Clark County Assistant District Attorney Marc DiGiacomo described Davis as the “commander on scene” and “gun caller” who “ordered the death” of Shakur.
In Nevada, there is no statute of limitations for prosecuting murder cases.
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