June 14, 1963 - Duane "Keefe D" Davis
Decades passed before an arrest was made in one of American music's most consequential unsolved murders. Davis, a self-described gang figure with ties to the South Side Compton Crips, was indicted in 2023 on charges that he orchestrated the 1996 drive-by shooting that killed rapper Tupac Shakur — an allegation fueled in part by Davis's own public statements over the years.
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On September 7, 1996, at 11:15 p.m. (PDT), Tupac Shakur, a 25-year-old American rapper, was shot in a drive-by shooting in Paradise, Nevada. The shooting occurred when the car carrying Shakur was stopped at a red light at East Flamingo Road and Koval Lane. Shakur was struck by four rounds fired from a .40-caliber Glock 22 pistol — two in the chest, one in the arm and one in the thigh. The driver, Death Row Records executive Suge Knight, was struck in the head by bullet fragments. Shakur died from his injuries six days later.
Orlando 'Baby Lane' Anderson, a member of the South Side Compton Crips gang, was suspected in the murder but denied being involved and was never charged; he was killed in an unrelated gang shooting in 1998. On September 29, 2023, Duane "Keffe D" Davis, Anderson's uncle, was arrested after being indicted by a grand jury for first-degree murder of Shakur.
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