Las Vegas police have released dramatic bodycam footage of the moment they searched the home of a former Crips gang member in connection with the 1996 murder investigation of Tupac Shakur.
In the videos, SWAT officers arrive at the address of Duane Davis, 60, also known as “Keefe D,” in Henderson, Nevada, and urge him to “come out with your hands up.”
Davis, who previously claimed to know who shot the rapper, is married to Paula Clemons, who owns the Maple Shade Street home that was raided on July 17.
Shakur, 25, was killed just a block from the Las Vegas Strip in September 1996 after getting in a fight with Mike Tyson at the MGM Grand Plaza. His case has been unsolved for more than 20 years.
While filming the ten-part Netflix docuseries Unsolved in 2018, Davis claimed it was his own nephew, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, who pulled the trigger and said he was to him been in the car with him at the time.
Las Vegas police have released bodycam footage of the moment they searched the home of a former Crips gang member in connection with the 1996 murder investigation of Tupac Shakur
Shakur, 25, was killed just a block from the Las Vegas Strip in September 1996 after leaving a brawl with Mike Tyson at the MGM Grand Plaza. His case has been unsolved for more than 20 years
The videos show the moment SWAT officers went to the address of 60-year-old Duane Davis, also known as “Keefe D,” in Henderson, Nevada, and ordered him to “come out with your hands up.”
A convoy of armored police vehicles rolled down the residential street on the outskirts of Las Vegas to the house, where they were looking for computers, laptops and articles about Tupac and his death.
Bodycam footage shows police lights flashing as an officer uses a bullhorn to demand residents come out.
“This is the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police, we have a search warrant on the apartment, you must come out with your hands up,” they keep shouting.
Police dogs can be heard barking before the police say, “Open the front door, we have a search warrant. Come out with your hands up, go with your head and open the door.”
“Go back to the sound of my voice.”
Almost 13 hours of footage was released of the raid, but parts of the video were redacted.
It went black and silent as SWAT team members lingered on the private property – but Davis was seen speaking to police outside the house.
A neighbor who lives on the same street where the warrant was served told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that he saw police arrive at the property with guns drawn and asked residents to come out with their hands up.
No arrests were made, but officers recovered magazine articles about Tupac’s death. Among the items confiscated was a copy of Vibe magazine about Tupac.
According to ABC News, the search found bullets, but they didn’t match the shell casings from the crime scene.
Computers, hard drives and pictures from the 1990s believed to show people possibly connected to the shooting from the passing car were also confiscated by authorities at the home. A copy of Davis’ book Compton Street Legend was taken.
A convoy of armored police vehicles rolled down a residential street on the outskirts of Las Vegas and searched a house for evidence
The home where the search warrant was executed was in the Maple Shade Street area off Interstate 11, about 18 miles from where Shakur was killed
TMZ reported that Clemons also owned a home in Compton, noting that as early as 1998 the LA County Sheriff’s Department reportedly recovered a gun in the backyard of a Compton home that belonged to the girlfriend of a known Crip gang member who was in Las Vegas the night of Shakur’s murder.
Tupac’s death remains unsolved nearly 30 years later, but evidence is now being presented to the grand jury in Las Vegas.
While investigators believe the gunman is likely dead, the current investigation could lead to answers about who else was in the car with him when the shots were fired.
Shakur was shot dead in his black BMW on September 7, 1996 while waiting at a red light on Flamingo Road and Koval Lane.
The shooting happened just after 11 p.m. as the 25-year-old rapper exited a boxing match with Mike Tyson at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino.
He was in the BMW with Suge Knight, the head of his label Death Row Records, when an unknown assailant shot them.
Tupac was hit four times, including once in the chest. He was taken to the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada, where he died six days later.
In a two-hour documentary from 2017, those who were by the rapper’s deathbed say the rapper hinted he knew who his killer was.
The unsolved murder of Tupac was an international story and continues to arouse fascination and speculation today. Some even claim the rapper is still alive.
There have been countless books and documentaries on the case, and his hometown of New York City even has a museum dedicated to Tupac.
One theory as to who was responsible is that it was in retaliation for a shooting that had taken place six days earlier in which Tupac’s associate had been killed.
Another reason is that the murder was the result of a feud between rival East and West Coast rappers — most notably Biggie Smalls, who was killed in a drive-by the following year.
Others suspected that the shooting was perpetrated by members of the Crips gang, who were rivals to Tupac’s cohort, the Bloods.
The prime suspect is Notorious BIG, a former boyfriend of Tupac’s who got embroiled in a high-profile feud after their argument.
Shakur is pictured with Marion “Suge” Knight at the April 1996 premiere of Sunset Park
Bullet holes can be seen in the BMW, which was fired with a volley of bullets from a semi-automatic weapon by men in a white Cadillac
Tupac is pictured in an undated photo with Snoop Dog, apparently in the same BMW
In 1995, Tupac claimed Biggie knew of a planned robbery that resulted in Tupac being shot and losing valuable jewelry.
Tupac then signed to West Coast Death Row Records, run by feared Compton boss Suge Knight and in direct competition with Bigge’s own Manhattan-based Bad Boy Records.
Three months before his death, Tupac released the track “Hit ‘Em Up,” in which he claimed to have slept with Biggie’s then-estranged wife.
But Biggie, who was shot himself in a passing car shootout just six months later, denied shooting Tupac and claimed he was taking any marks at the time of the attack – although those claims have since been questioned.
Another possible suspect identified in a 2002 LA Times investigation was Davis’ nephew Anderson, a member of the Southside Crips gang.
This theory held that Shakur, Knight, and some of their henchmen had beaten up Anderson on the same day as the shooting.
This attack was revenge for Anderson and other members of the Southside Crips for robbing a Death Row Records employee earlier in the year.
Las Vegas police have ignored the beating in their investigation, failed to investigate claims by a friend of Tupac that he witnessed the shooting, and failed to locate a witness who might have seen the gunman’s car, the LA Times reported .
Anderson, who denied the claims, was killed in a shooting in 1998.