Days after the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department arrested a suspect in the 1996 murder of Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Tupac Shakur, police released video of the arrest.
The footage, shared by local networks KLAS-TV and the Law & Crime Network, shows suspect Duane “Keffe D” Davis being approached by authorities near his Las Vegas home on Sept. 29, where he was immediately handcuffed and cooperative with police .
After about two minutes, Davis — who has since reportedly been charged with one count of gang-enhanced murder — is placed in a police vehicle and given water. In a later part of the recording, the officer asks Davis what the police “caught” him for. He replied: “the biggest case in the history of Las Vegas.”
While talking to the officer in the front seat, Davis then explained that he was not “concerned” about being arrested and that he “didn’t do s—.”
“Well, that’s what court is for, isn’t it?” the officer replied.
Elsewhere in the video, Davis asked police why the media wasn’t present when he was arrested. “Then why didn’t you bring the media,” he asked, according to KHLAS-TV. “They lit up my whole house,” Davis said, apparently referring to when authorities raided a home associated with him on July 17.
Suspect arrested in connection with Tupac Shakur’s 1996 murder
Las Vegas Sheriff Kevin McMahill discusses the arrest of Duane “Keefe D” Davis during a news conference.
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As previously reported, Davis was taken into custody late last month for allegedly being what Chief Deputy District Attorney Marc DiGiacomo called the “on-scene commander” who “ordered the death” of the influential rapper, according to the Associated Press.
The Shakur family was “pleased with the news” authorities shared at a news conference 27 years after Tupac was shot four times in a drive-by shooting on Sept. 7, 1996, at the age of 25.
In the 2019 book. Legend of Compton Street, co-writer Davis is described as one of three “living eyewitnesses” to the murder, which occurred when Shakur was on his way to a Las Vegas nightclub. Shakur died almost a week later, after losing a lung in the hospital. Davis, 60, has previously made public statements about being in the car from which Shakur was shot.
The affidavit previously reviewed by PEOPLE states that an iPhone, a desktop computer, four laptops, tablets, Vibration issue of a Shakur magazine, a stack of photos and more items were discovered in a search of Davis’ home — which took place nearly three decades after Shakur and Death Row Records boss Marion “Suge” Knight were shot after a Mike Tyson fight in Vegas. Knight was hit in the head by a bullet and survived the shooting.
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Tupac Shakur poses for a photo at the Regal Theater in Chicago, Illinois, in March 1994.
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Several of Shakur’s peers have since spoken out about the arrest, including Public Enemyrapper Flavor Flav and childhood friend Jada Pinkett Smith, who wrote on her Instagram Story that she hopes the public can now “get some answers and some closure.”
Flav spoke about it exclusively to PEOPLE at the Brent Shapiro Foundation Summer Spectacular last week.
“I’m so happy right now that they finally found Tupac’s shooter,” he said. “It would have to happen one day if he didn’t turn himself in, because I said it, I heard it.”
“He wrote a book about it and all that stuff, but if he didn’t, I felt the streets would turn him in one day,” Flav added. “I’m so happy they found him.”
As KTNV reported, Davis on Wednesday requested that his hearing be postponed so California attorney Edi Faal could represent him, which would require a petition through the Nevada Supreme Court.
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