A 60-year-old man linked to the murder of American rapper Tupac Amaru Shakur has been arrested.
According to reports, Duane Keith David, a former notorious gang leader, confessed that he was behind the four shots that took out the Hit Em Up hitmaker, also known as Makaveli, in 1996.
This was confirmed by Sherrif Kevin McMahill of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department in a media briefing on Friday.
“For 27 years, the family of Tupac Shakur has been waiting for justice and we are here today to announce the arrest of 60-year-old Duane Keith Davis, aka “Keffee D”, for the murder of Tupac Shakur,” said McMahill.
“The investigation started on the night of September 7, 1996. It is far from over. It has taken countless hours, really decades, of work by the men and women of our homicide section to get to where we are today,” he added.
Reports say Davis confessed in various media interviews and a memoir that he was in the car that pulled up near the vehicle that was driving Shakur after a 1996 boxing match between Mike Tyson and Bruce Seldon in Las Vegas, and that he participated in the shooting.
The “Dear Mama” hitmaker was shot four times and he died in hospital a week after the shooting at the age of 25.
Shakur released 11 platinum albums, four during his five-year career and seven others released after his death.
His first album 2Pacalypse Now debuted in November 1991.
The rapper was also a poet and featured in films like Poetic Justice and Above the Rim.
He used his music and poetry to make remarks on social ills, with his introspective lyrics often touching on topics such as racial inequality, poverty, and gang violence. He is still considered one of the most influential rappers of all time.
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