Nevada police issued a search warrant Monday looking for laptops and other electronic devices at the home of an alleged witness who was in the suspect’s car when superstar rapper Tupac Shakur was fatally shot in Las Vegas in 1996, according to the search warrant obtained exclusively by NBC News. Thursday.
Duane Keith Davis, 60, also known as “Keefy D” or “Keffe D,” was the subject of an arrest warrant in Clark County in which Las Vegas police also searched desktop computers and other storage devices. electronic storage, such as USB sticks, CDs, external devices. hard drives and audio recordings, the order said.
Davis was one of four people police say were in the suspect vehicle when Shakur was killed in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas. The suspected shooter, Orlando Anderson, Davis’s nephew, was later killed in a gang-related murder in Los Angeles. Davis, who was investigated by both the LAPD and the Las Vegas Metro PD, initially denied his involvement in the Tupac killing, but later gave police details about the case under a limited non-prosecution agreement. More recently, he has openly discussed his presence at the shooting scene in interviews, articles, and other media.
Davis, the warrant said, was affiliated with the Southside Compton Crips street gang, the warrant said.
During the search of Davis’s home in Henderson, a city about 15 miles south of Las Vegas, a Pokeball USB drive was found, a black iPhone in a black case, a gold iPad with a cracked screen, a gold iPad in a pink sleeve and a purple Toshiba laptop, among other items, according to the warrant.
On Tuesday, police confirmed in a statement that the search warrant had been served.
“We will have no further comment at this time,” the statement concluded.
Shakur, 25, He died on September 13, 1996.
Although he has been gone for over 25 years, he is arguably as famous and relevant now as he was when he died.
He Oakland City Hall, California this year he voted to rename part of MacArthur Boulevard, a major thoroughfare, in his honor.
“Tupac knew deep down that he was always destined for something great,” his sister Sekyiwa “Set” Shakur said last month at a ceremony that added her late brother’s star to the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
“And as her little sister, I was privileged to see that greatness unfold,” she said.
