Las Vegas police arrest man on suspicion of murder in 1996 drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur, Associated Press sources say.
The long-awaited break in a case that has frustrated investigators and fascinated the public ever since the hip-hop icon was gunned down on the Las Vegas Strip 27 years ago.
The arrest comes two months after Las Vegas police raided his wife's home July 17 in neighboring Henderson. Documents said police were looking for items"concerning the murder of Tupac Shakur." "They promised they would shred the indictment and stop the grand jury if I helped them out," he wrote.Shakur was 25 when he was gunned down in a drive-by shooting near the Las Vegas Strip on the night of Sept. 7, 1996. The rapper was in a BMW driven by Death Row Records founder Marion"Suge" Knight in a convoy of about 10 cars. They were waiting at a red light when a white Cadillac pulled up next to them and gunfire erupted.
Shakur's death came as his fourth solo album,"All Eyez on Me," remained on the charts, with some 5 million copies sold. Nominated six times for a Grammy Award, Shakur is largely considered one of the most influential and versatile rappers of all time. Shakur was feuding at the time with rap rival Biggie Smalls, also known as the Notorious B.I.G., who was fatally shot in March 1997.
Kading said he interviewed Davis in 2008 and 2009, during Los Angeles police investigations of the killings of Shakur in Las Vegas and the slaying of Biggie Smalls. "It's those events that have given Las Vegas the ammunition and the leverage to move forward," Kading said."Prior to Keefe D's public declarations, the cases were unprosecutable as they stood."
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