Tupac and Biggie murders implicate some of the biggest names in 90s hip-hop – but they’ll never become public, warns cop
According to an anonymous retired police officer, some of the biggest names from the 1990s hip-hop scene were involved in the murders of Tupac and Biggie.
The former LAPD officer said The Sun The artists are named in documents related to the arrest of Duane “Keefe D” Davis, but these are never made public.
Davis, 61, was arrested in September 2023 for the 1996 drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas. The former LA gang leader has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder.
A Las Vegas police source told the newspaper that the files attached to Davis’ case also include allegations against some of the “biggest names in music” from the 1990s.
Without the help of the ex Los Angeles “According to police, the case against Keefe is said to be less concrete,” the anonymous source told The Sun.
According to an anonymous retired police officer, some of the biggest names in 90s hip-hop were involved in the murders of Tupac and Biggie. (Pictured: Biggie and Tupac in the 90s)
Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis (left) – the former LA gang leader accused of killing 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 history convinced prosecutors that ‘Keefe has virtually no defense.’
“The District Attorney’s team has the largest body of evidence ever gathered regarding Tupac’s murder, including documents that may never be released to the public,” they added.
‘This includes allegations against some of the biggest names in music from the 1990s.
“It was a huge workload. It took over three years to collect everything, working with retired LA cops and searching through vaults for evidence. Almost 30 years after the incident, it’s still coming to light.
“Overall, they believe their case presents a clear trail of evidence confirming that Keefe was a central figure in Tupac’s death, based on witness statements and circumstantial evidence.”
Davis is the only person charged in the 1996 murder of Tupac. His trial date is set for November of this year in Nevada. He remains in custody in Las Vegas.
His public defenders, Charles Cano and Robert Arroyo, said they plan to file papers seeking his release on bail before trial.
Tupac Shakur was gunned down at the height of the East Coast-West Coast rap rivalry in the ’90s. He is pictured with Combs and his rap rival Biggie Smalls, aka Christopher Wallace.
Combs, who is named 77 times in the nearly 180 pages of court documents, has never been a suspect in Shakur’s murder. Law enforcement sources told TMZ he is still not considered a suspect in the case. Pictured: Tupac Shakur on August 15, 1996
Davis told LAPD detectives in 2008 that Combs allegedly offered him $1 million to kill Shakur (left) and Death Row Records boss Suge Knight (right)
Davis — the only surviving person in the vehicle from which the shots were fired and the only person ever 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 motion to have his bail reconsidered.
They declined to comment on the case, saying they have not yet had time to examine what prosecutor Marc DiGiacomo called the “voluminous” evidence.
Davis, 61, originally from Compton, California, was arrested Sept. 29 outside a Las Vegas-area home where police executed a search warrant July 17.
Davis has openly stated in recent years and in his revealing 2019 memoir that he orchestrated the drive-by shooting that killed Shakur and injured rap music mogul Marion “Suge” Knight.
Knight, now 59, is serving a 28-year sentence in a California prison for the 2015 shooting death of a Compton businessman.
Prosecutors say Tupac’s 1996 shooting followed conflicts between rival groups on the East Coast and West Coast over control of the music genre “gangsta rap.”
The grand jury was told that shortly before the shooting, Tupac was involved in a brawl at a casino on the Las Vegas Strip with Davis’ cousin, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson.
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 Las Vegas in September 1996.
Davis has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder. If convicted, he could face up to life in prison. Davis is pictured arriving at Clark County District Court on Nov. 7, 2023
Davis identified himself in several interviews and in his memoir, which describes his life as the leader of a Crips gang in Compton.
He wrote that he was promised immunity from prosecution in 2010 when he told Los Angeles authorities what he knew about the fatal shooting that killed Shakur and rival Christopher Wallace in Los Angeles six months later.
Wallace was known as The Notorious BIG and Biggie Smalls.
Tupac died at the age of 25. He had five No. 1 albums, was nominated for six Grammy Awards, and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2017. This year, he was posthumously awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
A street near where Tupac lived in Oakland, California, in the 1990s was renamed in his honor last Friday.