BREAKING: An Arrest Has Been Made In Connection With The Murder Of Tupac Shakur

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AP- Las Vegas police have arrested a man in the deadly 1996 drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur, a long-awaited break in a case that has frustrated investigators and fascinated the public ever since the hip-hop icon was gunned down on the Las Vegas Strip 27 years ago.

Duane “Keffe D” Davis was arrested early Friday morning, although the exact charge or charges were not immediately clear, according to two officials with first-hand knowledge of the arrest. They were not authorized to speak publicly ahead of an expected indictment later Friday.

Great work by everyone solving the murder of one of the biggest celebrities at the time despite him being shot on the Las Vegas Strip the night of a Mike Tyson fight. After 27 years, countless theories, and like 800 different movies about the shooting, we can finally cue the gif!

Actually it seems like Mr. Davis Keffe D wasn't the man who shot Tupac but happily placed himself at the scene of the crime to anyone that would listen, or in this case buy his memoir or watch him on BET.

Davis has long been known to investigators and has himself admitted in interviews and in his 2019 tell-all memoir, “Compton Street Legend,” that he was in the Cadillac where the gunfire erupted during the September 1996 drive-by shooting. Shakur was 25 when he was gunned down.

In the book, Davis said he broke his silence over Tupac’s killing in 2010 during a closed-door meeting with federal and local authorities. At the time, he was 46 and facing life in prison on drug charges when he agreed to speak with the authorities. “They promised they would shred the indictment and stop the grand jury if I helped them out,” he wrote.

In 2018, after a cancer diagnosis, Davis admitted publicly in an interview for a BET show to being inside the Cadillac during the attack. He implicated his nephew, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, saying he was one of two people in the back seat where the shots were fired.

I honestly always figured that Orlando Anderson was at least connected to Tupac's shooting if not the one that actually pulled the trigger considering he had just been stomped out by Pac hours earlier.

However as Lt. Lois Einhorn once told us, that's a very entertaining story but unfortunately, real detectives have to worry about that little thing called evidence. Well I guess the LVPD may have found that nearly three decades after the shooting happened.

The arrest comes two months after Las Vegas police raided his wife’s home July 17 in neighboring Henderson. Documents said police were looking for items “concerning the murder of Tupac Shakur.”

Police reported collecting multiple computers, a cellphone and hard drive, a Vibe magazine that featured Shakur, several .40-caliber bullets, two “tubs containing photographs” and a copy of Davis’ 2019 tell-all memoir, “Compton Street Legend.”

So now the question is what can the police do with said evidence and Davis in custody for a case that has been going on since before Robbie Fox was born. Considering Adnan from Serial has had his verdict switched more time than Michael Scott's vasectomy, I think we are a long way from finding out who actually killed Tupac.

JK, Tupac isn't dead. Everybody knows that!

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For any non-believers, check out this website from the 90s that has had me waiting for Tupac's revival since pretty much the minute his death was announced on MTV News (Yes, MTV once had programs other than Ridiculousness once upon a time).