Tupac murder suspect Duane Davis set to appear in court
Duane "Keffe D" Davis is set to be arraigned Thursday on a murder charge in connection with the 1996 drive-by killing of rapper Tupac Shakur.
Davis, 60, was indicted by a Clark County grand jury on one count of open murder with use of a deadly weapon with a gang enhancement last month, nearly 30 years after Tupac's death. He has been detained since being arrested near his Las Vegas-area home on Sept. 29.
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Davis first appeared in court earlier this month, though his arraignment was postponed after he told the judge his lawyer, who was not present, needed a continuance of two weeks.
Shakur died on Sept. 7, 1996, at the age of 25, six days after being shot while in a car near the Las Vegas Strip. A white Cadillac pulled up alongside the car near the Strip and "immediately began shooting," police said.
The shooting occurred hours after a brawl at the MGM Grand between members and affiliates of two rival Compton, California, gangs -- Mob Piru Bloods and the South Side Compton Crips -- police said.
Police said Davis -- who has admitted publicly to being in the Cadillac at the time of the shooting -- was the Crips' "shot caller." He is accused of orchestrating the "retaliatory shooting" that killed Shakur.
Though Davis may not have fired the gun on Shakur himself, his say-so would have authorized the trigger pull, authorities have said. They also accused Davis of providing the gun used in the shooting.
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Davis is the only living suspect in the homicide, according to police.
The case remained cold for decades until "reinvigorated" in 2018 when new information came to light -- "specifically, Duane Davis' own admissions to his involvement in this homicide investigation that he provided to numerous different media outlets," Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Lt. Jason Johansson told reporters last month.