27 after the assassination of rapper Tupac Shakur, a suspect, Duane Davis, aka “Keffe D”, a former gang member, was arrested and charged with homicide. Longtime friend of the singer, actress Jada Pinkett Smith spoke this weekend.
A pretty incredible twist for a Cold Case that is almost 30 years old. This Friday, September 29, before a Las Vegas judge, a prosecutor, Marc DiGiacomo, announced that he had charged a suspect in the murder of the legendary rapper Tupac Shakur who was also an actor, riddled with bullets while driving his car, on the night of September 7, 1996 in Las Vegas. He was hit four times, including two fatal wounds to the chest, a bullet which pierced his pelvis and right hand, and the last hitting his thigh.
The arrested suspect is Duane Davis, alias “Keffe D”, a former gang member, who admitted to having been present in the vehicle from which the shots were fired, but said he was in the front seat of the vehicle. and not at the rear, where the shots had been fired from, according to him.
Duane Davis “was the sponsor of this group of individuals who committed this crime and he orchestrated the plan that was implemented” commented the Las Vegas Police. “Under Nevada law, (…) you can be charged with a crime whether you were directly involved or whether you were an accomplice” said Clark County Prosecutor Steve Wolfson in a press conference organized for the occasion.
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Although the facts had been known for a long time, the Police had until then never been able to have the necessary elements to finally initiate legal proceedings. It was Duane Davis, the last living witness in the case, who in a sense provided his own rope. With the publication of his memoirs in 2019, Compton Street Legendas well as the various interviews he had given, “he provided his own set of statements that are entirely consistent with the evidence.”
A close friend of the rapper, having met him at the end of the 1980s at the Baltimore School for the Arts located in Maryland, the actress Jada Pinkett Smith spoke about the twist in this affair.
“Now I hope we can get some answers and come to a conclusion” she wrote on her Instagram account. Expected in the coming days in court, Duane Davis, now 60 years old, risks a very heavy sentence; THE Grand jury having called for an additional sentence of 20 years in prison for links to a criminal gang.