A retired detective who once investigated Tupac Shakur’s murder suggested that the police may have deliberately waited several years before arresting a man who openly admitted his role in the killing.
The goal was to gather a “compilation” of confessions, according to the detective previously on the case.
Las Vegas Police took Duane “Keefe D” Davis into custody on Friday, charging him with murder.
Five years ago, Davis had publicly disclosed his involvement in the murder during a documentary interview.
He claimed that he was in a white Cadillac when a back-seat shooter opened fire at Tupac’s BMW in Las Vegas in 1996.
Davis and others in the Cadillac were reportedly affiliated with the notorious Los Angeles street gang, the South Side Compton Crips, while Tupac had ties to the rival Los Angeles gang, the Bloods.
The retired detective, Greg Kading, who previously worked for the Los Angeles Police Department’s homicide division, suggested that Las Vegas PD may have delayed Davis’s arrest deliberately.
“Perhaps what they were doing was saying, ‘He’s already tied the noose, now, let’s let him hang himself,” Kading, who previously investigated the high-profile murder, said.
“‘You didn’t just say it twice, you didn’t just say it five times,’ and so now you’ve got this compilation of so many confessions,” Kading said, adding: “The perception is that it’s going to be hard for him at this point to say, ‘Hey, I was just kind of boasting, making stuff up.’”
In 2018, Davis, who was diagnosed with cancer, openly shared details about the drive-by shooting with BET, including his claim that he was seated in the front of the Cadillac.
In his 2019 memoir, Davis wrote: “One of my guys from the back seat grabbed the Glock and started bustin’ back.
“As the rounds continued flying, I ducked down so that I wouldn’t get hit.”
Davis also asserted in his book that his nephew, Orlando Anderson, another member of the South Side Compton Crips, had fatally shot Tupac.
But Anderson, who passed away in 1998, consistently denied any involvement in Shakur’s murder and was never formally charged.
Clark County Deputy District Attorney Marc DiGiacomo described Davis as the “on-ground, on-site commander” and “shot caller” who “ordered the death” of Shakur.
In Nevada, there is no statute of limitations for prosecuting murder cases.
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