Some of the biggest names in 1990s hip-hop have been implicated in the murders of Tupac and Biggie, according to an anonymous retired police officer.
The former LAPD officer said The sun The artists are mentioned in documents related to the arrest of Duane ‘Keefe D’ Davis, but they will never be made public.
Davis, 61, was arrested in September 2023 for the drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas in 1996. The former Los Angeles gang leader has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder.
A Las Vegas law enforcement source told the newspaper that the files attached to Davis’ case also include allegations against some of the “biggest names in music” of the 1990s.
‘Without the help of the ex Los Angeles ‘Police officers, the case against Keefe would be less concrete,’ the anonymous source told The Sun.
Some of the biggest names in 1990s hip-hop have been implicated in the murders of Tupac and Biggie, according to an anonymous retired police officer. (Pictured: Biggie and Tupac in 2002)
Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis (left), the former Los Angeles gang leader accused of murdering Tupac Shakur, previously claimed that Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs (right) offered him $1 million to kill the rapper.
‘Their knowledge of the evidence, witness statements and Keefe’s criminal past give prosecutors confidence that ‘Keefe has almost no defense.’
“The prosecution team has at its disposal the largest archive of evidence ever created related to Tupac’s murder, including documents that may never be made public,” they added.
‘They include allegations against some of the biggest names in music of the 1990s.
‘It was an epic workload, taking more than three years to gather and collaborate with retired Los Angeles officers and scour the vaults for evidence that is still coming to light nearly 30 years after the incident.
Overall, they believe their case firmly encapsulates a precise body of evidence that confirms Keefe was a central figure in Tupac’s death based on witness statements and circumstantial evidence.
Davis is the only person charged with Tupac’s 1996 murder. His trial is scheduled for November this year in Nevada. He remains in prison in Las Vegas.
His public defenders, Charles Cano and Robert Arroyo, said they intend to file papers requesting his release on bail before trial.
Tupac Shakur was shot and killed at the height of the East Coast-West Coast rap rivalry in the 1990s. He is pictured with Combs and rap rival Biggie Smalls, aka Christopher Wallace.
Combs, who is mentioned 77 times in the nearly 180-page court documents, has never been a suspect in Shakur’s murder. Law enforcement sources told TMZ that he is not yet considered a suspect in the case. Pictured: Tupac Shakur on August 15, 1996
Davis told Los Angeles Police Department detectives in 2008 that Combs allegedly offered him $1 million to murder Shakur (left) and Death Row Records boss Suge Knight (right).
Davis – the only person still alive who was in the vehicle from which the shots were fired and the only person who has been charged with a crime in the case – has been held in a Las Vegas jail since his arrest last September (pictured) and has filed a request for bail reconsideration.
They declined to comment on the case, saying they have not yet had time to review what prosecutor Marc DiGiacomo called “voluminous” evidence.
Davis, 60, is originally from Compton, California. He was arrested Sept. 29 outside a Las Vegas-area home where police served a search warrant on July 17.
Davis has said publicly in recent years and in a revealing 2019 memoir that he orchestrated the shooting that killed Shakur and injured rap music mogul Marion “Suge” Knight.
Knight, now 58, is serving 28 years in a California prison for the 2015 death of a Compton businessman.
Prosecutors allege that Tupac’s 1996 shooting followed clashes between rival East and West Coast gangs over dominance in the music genre known as “gangsta rap.”
The grand jury was told that Tupac was involved in a fight at a Las Vegas Strip casino with Davis’ nephew, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, shortly before the shooting.
Anderson, then 22, was in the car with Davis but denied involvement in Shakur’s murder. Anderson died two years later in a shooting in Compton.
This photo provided by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department shows the bullet-riddled car in which rapper Tupac Shakur was fatally shot in September 1996 in Las Vegas.
Davis has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder. If convicted, he could be sentenced to life in prison. Davis is pictured arriving at Clark County District Court on Nov. 7, 2023.
Davis became involved during multiple interviews and in his memoirs describing his life as a Crips gang leader in Compton.
She wrote that she was promised immunity from prosecution in 2010 when she told Los Angeles authorities what she knew about the fatal shootings of Shakur and his rival, rapper Christopher Wallace, six months later in Los Angeles.
Wallace was known as The Notorious BIG and Biggie Smalls.
Tupac died at age 25. He had five number one albums, was nominated for six Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2017. He received a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame this year.
A street near where Tupac lived in Oakland, California, in the 1990s was renamed in his honor last Friday.
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