Las Vegas police have released dramatic bodycam footage of the moment they raided the home of a former Crips gang member in connection with the 1996 Tupac Shakur murder investigation.
The video’s SWAT agents arrive at the address of Duane Davis, 60, also known as “Keefe D,” in Henderson, Nevada and order him to “come out with your hands up.”
Davis, who previously claimed to know who shot the rapper, is married to Paula Clemons, the owner of the home on Maple Shade Street that was raided on July 17.
Shakur, 25, was killed just steps from the Las Vegas Strip in September 1996 after leaving a Mike Tyson fight at the MGM Grand Plaza. His case has been unsolved for more than 20 years.
In 2018, while filming the 10-episode Netflix docuseries ‘Unsolved, the Tupac and Biggie Murders’, Davis claimed it was his own cousin Orlando ‘Baby Lane’ Anderson who pulled the trigger, saying he was at the time him in the car. .
Las Vegas police have released bodycam footage of the moment they raided the home of a former Crips gang member in connection with the 1996 Tupac Shakur murder investigation
Shakur, 25, was killed just steps from the Las Vegas Strip in September 1996 after leaving a Mike Tyson fight at the MGM Grand Plaza. His case has been unsolved for more than 20 years
The videos show the moment when SWAT officers went to the address of Duane Davis, 60, also known as “Keefe D,” in Henderson, Nevada, and ordered him to “come out with your hands up.”
A convoy of armored police vehicles rolled onto the residential street on the outskirts of Las Vegas to the house where they were looking for computers, laptops and articles about Tupac and his death.
Bodycam footage shows flashing police lights as an officer uses a megaphone to demand that those present come out.
“This is the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, we have a search warrant for the residence, you must come out with your hands up,” they shout repeatedly.
Police dogs are heard barking before the police say, ‘Open the front door, we have a search warrant, come out with your hands up, go head and open that door.
“Walk back to the sound of my voice.”
Nearly 13 hours of footage have been released about the raid, but parts of the video have been redacted.
Things went black and quiet as SWAT team members were on the private property – but Davis was seen talking to police outside the house.
This was told by a neighbor who lives on the same street as where the warrant was served Las Vegas Review Journal they witnessed police arrive at the property with guns drawn while demanding residents come out with their hands raised.
No arrests were made, but officers found magazine articles about Tupac’s death. Among the items seized was a copy of “Vibe magazine” about Tupac.
The search found bullets, but they did not match the cartridge cases from the crime scene, ABC News reported.
Computers, hard drives and photos from the 1990s that allegedly show people possibly connected to the drive-by shooting were also seized by authorities. A copy of Davis’ book “Compton Street Legend” was taken.
A convoy of armored police vehicles rolled down a residential street on the outskirts of Las Vegas and searched a home for evidence
The house where the search warrant was executed was located near Maple Shade Street near Interstate 11, about 18 miles from where Shakur was killed.
TMZ reported that Clemons also owned a home in Compton, noting that in 1998 the LA County Sheriff’s Department reportedly recovered a gun in the backyard of a Compton home that belonged to the girlfriend of a known Crip gang member who had been Las Vegas was. of Shakur’s murder.
Tupac’s death remains unsolved nearly 30 years later, but the evidence is now being presented to the Las Vegas grand jury.
While investigators believe the shooter is likely dead, the current investigation could lead to answers about who else was in the car with him when the shots were fired.
Shakur was shot in his black BMW as it was idling at a red light at Flamingo Road and Koval Lane on September 7, 1996.
The shooting occurred shortly after 11 p.m., as the 25-year-old rapper was leaving a Mike Tyson boxing match at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino.
He was in the BMW with Suge Knight, the boss of his Death Row Records label, when the pair were shot at by an unknown assailant.
Tupac was hit four times, including one in the chest. He was taken to the University of Southern Nevada Medical Center, where he died six days later.
In a two-hour documentary in 2017, those lying next to the rapper’s bed as he lay dying say that the rapper reported knowing who his killer is.
The unsolved murder of Tupac was an international story and remains a source of fascination and speculation to this day. Some even claim that the rapper is still alive.
Numerous books and documentaries have been published about the case, and there is even a museum dedicated to Tupac in his hometown of New York City.
One theory as to who was responsible is that it was retaliation for a shooting that took place six days earlier in which Tupac’s associate was killed.
Another is that the murder was the result of a feud between rival rappers on the east and west coasts – namely, Biggie Smalls who was killed in a drive-by the following year.
Others have suggested that the shooting was carried out by members of the Crips gang, who were rivals of Tupac’s cohort, the Bloods.
Chief among the suspects is Notorious B.I.G., a former friend of Tupac’s who became involved in a high-profile feud after they got into a fight.
Shakur is pictured with Marion ‘Suge’ Knight at the Sunset Park premiere in April 1996
Bullet holes can be seen in the BMW that was shot at with a volley of bullets from a semi-automatic weapon by men in a white Cadillac car
Tupac is pictured in an undated photo with Snoop Dog, apparently in the same BMW
In 1995, Tupac claimed that Biggie knew about a planned robbery that resulted in Tupac being shot and losing valuable jewelry.
Tupac then signed with the West Coast’s Death Row records, which was run by the dreaded Compton boss Suge Knight and was in direct competition with Bigge’s own Bad Boy records, based in Manhattan.
Three months before his death, Tupac released the song “Hit ‘Em Up,” in which he claimed to have slept with Biggie’s then-estranged wife.
But Biggie, who was herself shot in a drive-by shooting six months later, denied shooting Tupac and claimed he was recording tracks when the hit took place — though those claims have since been called into question.
Another possible suspect, identified in a 2002 LA Times investigation, was Davis’s cousin Anderson, a member of the Southside Crips gang.
That theory claimed that Shakur, Knight, and some of their entourage beat up Anderson on the same day as the shooting.
That attack was revenge for Anderson and other members of the Southside Crips for robbing a Death Row Records employee earlier this year.
Las Vegas police ignored the beating of their investigation, did not follow up on claims by one of Tupac’s friends that he witnessed the shooting and did not pursue any witness who might have seen the perpetrator’s car, the LA Times reported.
Anderson, who denied the claims, was killed in a 1998 gang shooting.