WASHINGTON, September 29 Las Vegas police arrested a suspect in involvement in the murder of American rapper Tupac Shakur (2pac) in 1996, local media reported.
According to sources that have not yet received official confirmation, a certain Dwayne «Caffee Dee» Davis was arrested in Las Vegas on Friday morning, whom police consider to be involved in the musician's murder. Details, including the charges against him, were not provided.
Tupac Shakur was shot and killed in Las Vegas on September 7, 1996 — a BMW car containing rapper and Death Row Records founder Suge Knight stopped at a traffic light when fire was opened on them from a white Cadillac stopped nearby . The 25-year-old rapper had been attacked and had problems with the law before, media reported that the murder was preceded by a fight in a casino involving the musician and one of the occupants of the car from which fire was opened. It was reported that it was Davis' nephew, whom the media described as a well-known California gangster and drug dealer.
For 27 years, no formal charges were brought in the case of Shakur's murder — to date, of the four people allegedly in the Cadillac at the time of the murder, only Davis has survived. As KHOU-11 TV channel reports, he was known to the police for a long time and even, according to memoirs published several years ago, in 2010 he admitted to law enforcement officers that he was in the car from which the musician was shot. The publication connects the arrest with a search in July of this year in the house of Davis's wife and reports that law enforcement agencies were looking for documents related to the murder of Shakur, seized equipment and other evidence.