The star rapper was just 25 when he was shot dead in a drive-by in 1996, as he was waiting at a red light near the Las Vegas strip.
was arrested and charged with murder on Friday local time in a long-awaited breakthrough in one of hip-hop’s most enduring mysteries.
Davis himself has admitted in interviews and in his 2019 tell-all memoir, Compton Street Legend, that he provided the gun used in the drive-by shooting.Authorities said Friday that Davis’ own public comments revived the investigation. Phone and text messages to Davis and his wife on Friday and in the months since the July 17 search weren’t returned.
On the night of September 7, 1996, Shakur was in a BMW driven by Death Row Records founder Marion “Suge” Knight. Anderson, a known rival of Shakur, had been involved in a casino brawl with the rapper shortly before the shooting. On the night of July 17, Las Vegas police quietly surrounded the home where Davis lives with his wife, Paula Clemons.
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