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Published October 1, 2023, 11:34 a.m. ET
Tupac Shakur’s sister said the arrest of a suspect in the rapper’s murder after nearly three decades was a “pivotal moment” – but warned that “multiple hands” were involved in her brother’s murder and that much remains unknown .
“Today is a victory,” Sekyiwa Shakur wrote on Instagram Saturday after Duane “Keffe D” Davis was arrested by Las Vegas police a day earlier.
“This is undoubtedly a pivotal moment. The silence of the last 27 years surrounding this case has spoken loudly in our community,” she wrote. “It is important to me that the world, the country, the justice system and our people recognize the gravity of the death of this man, my brother, my mother’s son, my father’s son.”
Nevertheless, Sekyiwa stressed that she would impose the sentence “until all facts and legal proceedings are concluded.”
“Multiple hands were involved and there is still so much surrounding the life and death of my brother Tupac and our Shakur family as a whole. “We seek true justice on all fronts,” she added.
Davis, 60, said he was one of four occupants of a white Cadillac that drove alongside the rapper’s car before someone inside rolled down the windows and fired, hitting Tupac four times on the night of Sept. 7, 1996.
Tupac was 25 years old at the time of the shooting.Corbis/VCG via Getty Images The black car that rapper Tupac Shakur was riding in when he was fatally shot in 1996 as the rapper and Marion “Suge” Knight drove down a Las Vegas street. The LIFE Image Collection/Getty
In his 2019 memoir “Compton Street Legends,” Davis identified his nephew Orlando Anderson as the person who fatally shot Tupac Shakur.
Anderson, who was a member of the South Side Compton Crips gang, died in 1998 at age 23 as a result of another shooting.
Anderson denied involvement in Shakur’s murder and was never charged.
The other two men in the car, Terrence Brown and DeAndre Smith, are also now dead, so no other witnesses have come forward to say what happened that night.
Sekyiwa Shakur and Mopreme Shakur attend the ceremony honoring Tupac Shakur with a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame on June 7, 2023 in Hollywood, California. Getty Images
Authorities said Davis’ public comments revived the investigation, which led to a Nevada grand jury indicting him on one count of murder with a deadly weapon and one count of gang enhancement – and led to his arrest on Friday.
Clark County Assistant District Attorney Marc DiGiacomo described Davis as the “commander on scene” and “gun caller” who “ordered the death” of Shakur.
Tupac was shot dead on the Vegas Strip in 1996.AP
Shakur’s stepbrother Mopreme Shakur expressed anger that the arrest took 27 years, telling The Post on Friday he didn’t understand how Davis was free – and even exploited the rapper’s death with interviews and a book, in in which he bragged about his long-standing involvement.
“[Davis] kept saying he was in the car with his nephew [Orlando Anderson] I shot my brother. This didn’t have to happen.”
Tupac died six days after the 1996 shooting. AP
There was strong speculation that Shakur’s murder had something to do with a gang.
The rapper was associated with the Bloods street gang and had argued with Anderson on the night of his death following a boxing match between Mike Tyson and Bruce Seldon.
After the drive-by shooting, Tupac was taken to University Medical Center in Southern Nevada.
He died six days later, on September 13, of cardiac arrest.
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