Days after the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Departmentarrested a suspect in connection withthe 1996 murder of Rock and Roll Hall of FamerTupac Shakur, the department has released footage of the arrest.
After about two minutes, Davis — who has since reportedly been charged with one count of murder with a gang enhancement — is put into the police vehicle and given water. In a later bit of footage, an officer asked Davis what police “got” him for. He responded: “the biggest case in Las Vegas history.”
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While engaging in small talk with the officer in the front seat, Davis then explained that he wasn’t “worried” about the arrest and that he “ain’t did s—.”
“Well, that’s what the court’s for, right?” the officer responded.
Las Vegas Sheriff Kevin McMahill discusses arrest of Duane “Keefe D” Davis during a press conference.AP Photo/John Locher
AP Photo/John Locher
As previously reported, Davis wastaken into custodylate last month for allegedly being what Chief Deputy District Attorney Marc DiGiacomo called the “on-ground, on-site commander” who “ordered the death” of the influential rapper, according to theAssociated Press.
In a 2019 book,Compton Street Legend,co-writer Davis is described as one of three “living eyewitnesses” to the murder, which took place when Shakur was on his way to a nightclub in Las Vegas. Shakur died nearly a week later, after losing a lung in the hospital. Davis, 60, has previously made public statements about being in the car that fired the shots at Shakur.
Tupac Shakur poses for a photo at the Regal Theater in Chicago, Illinois in March 1994.Raymond Boyd/Getty
Raymond Boyd/Getty
Several of Shakur’s peers have spoken out about the arrest since, including bothPublic EnemyrapperFlavor Flavand childhood friendJada Pinkett Smith, who wrote on her Instagram Story that she hopes the public can now “get some answers and have some closure.”
Flav expressed his own thoughts on the matter exclusively to PEOPLE at the Brent Shapiro Foundation Summer Spectacularlast week.
“I’m so happy right now that they finally found Tupac’s shooter," he said. “It was bound to happen one day if he didn’t turn his own self in, because he told on himself, I heard.”
“He wrote a book about it and all of this stuff, but if he didn’t do it, I felt the streets would turn him in one day,” Flav added. “So I’m so happy that they found him.”
source: people.com
