Tupac Shakur’s Dying Investigation Advances Via Home Search

Tupac Shakur’s dying remains to be beneath investigation after going greater than 25 years with no arrests.

“LVMPD can verify a search warrant was served in Henderson, Nevada on July 17, 2023, as a part of the continued Tupac Shakur murder investigation,” Las Vegas police mentioned in a press release to Us Weekly on Tuesday, July 18. “We could have no additional remark at the moment.”

The late rapper was shot in September 1996 in Las Vegas — which is near the house just lately searched by police. Tupac was driving in a black sedan on Las Vegas Boulevard when a white Cadillac drove up beside the automobile and opened hearth. Tupac died six days later from his accidents on the age of 25.

Hours previous to the taking pictures, Tupac was seen at a boxing match in Las Vegas together with Suge Knight. Whereas no arrests have been made within the case, there was hypothesis for many years as to who’s accountable.

When rapper Infamous B.I.G. (actual identify Christopher Wallace) was shot and killed in Los Angeles in March 1997 at age 24, many followers believed it was linked to Tupac’s dying. Neither homicide has been solved.

A decade later, allegations surfaced that Sean “Diddy” Combs was concerned in Tupac’s premature passing. Within the 2015 documentary Homicide Rap, former LAPD investigator Greg Kading claimed that Combs, 53, was behind Tupac’s homicide and alleged that producer Knight, 58, retaliated by orchestrating Biggie’s dying.

The documentary, which is predicated on Kading’s 2011 e book of the identical identify, outlined Kading’s claims in opposition to Combs after engaged on each Biggie and Tupac’s homicide instances for 3 years. Kading, 60, alleged within the movie and e book that Combs employed a gang member named Duane Keith “Keffe D” Davis to kill Tupac and his supervisor, Knight, for $1 million.

The previous detective additional alleged that on the evening of the hit, Keffe D’s nephew Orlando “Child Lane” Anderson pulled the set off.

Shortly after Kading’s e book was revealed, Combs gave LA Weekly a press release concerning the allegations in opposition to him, claiming in October 2011, “This story is pure fiction and fully ridiculous.” The LAPD, in the meantime, instructed the outlet on the time that the investigation was nonetheless ongoing.

In a 2018 episode of BET’s Dying Row Chronicles, Keffe D claimed he knew the identification of Tupac’s shooter however couldn’t reveal it due to “avenue code.”

He didn’t, nonetheless, deny his nephew’s involvement within the incident, saying on the present, that Tupac’s deadly pictures got here from the again of his automobile the place Child Lane and one other man have been seated. Previous to his dying in 1998, Child Lane denied to police that he was the shooter, based on The Hollywood Reporter.

Knight, for his half, was sentenced in October 2018 to twenty-eight years in jail for killing a Compton businessman in January 2015 whereas driving recklessly by a car parking zone following a battle with Cle “Bone” Sloan.

Us Weekly has reached out to Las Vegas police for extra particulars on the newest search.