Tupac Shakur’s sister said the arrest of a suspect in the rapper’s slaying after nearly three decades was a “pivotal moment” — but warned “multiple hands” were involved in her brother’s shooting death and that a lot remains unknown.
“Today is a victory,” Sekyiwa Shakur wrote on Instagram Saturday, following the arrest of Duane “Keffe D” Davis by Las Vegas police a day prior.
“This is no doubt a pivotal moment. The silence of the past 27 years surrounding this case has spoken loudly in our community,” she wrote. “It’s important to me that the world, the country, the justice system, and our people acknowledge the gravity of the passing of this man, my brother, my mother’s son, my father’s son.”
Still, Sekyiwa noted she would hold judgment “until all the facts and legal proceedings are complete.”
“There have been multiple hands involved and there remains so much surrounding the life and death of my brother Tupac and our Shakur family overall. We are seeking real justice, on all fronts,” she added.
Davis, 60, said he was one of four occupants of a white Cadillac that pulled alongside the rapper’s car before someone inside rolled down its windows and fired, hitting Tupac four times on the night of Sept. 7, 1996.
In his 2019 memoir “Compton Street Legends,” Davis identified his nephew, Orlando Anderson, as the one who fatally shot Tupac Shakur.
Anderson, who was a member of the South Side Compton Crips gang, died at age 23 as the result of another gangland shooting in 1998.
Anderson denied involvement in Shakur’s murder and was never charged.
The other two men in the car, Terrence Brown and DeAndre Smith are also now dead, leaving no other witnesses who have come forward to say what happened that night.
Authorities said Davis’ public comments revived the investigation, leading to a Nevada grand jury returning an indictment against him on one count of murder with a deadly weapon and a gang enhancement — and to his arrest on Friday.
Clark County Chief Deputy District Attorney Marc DiGiacomo described Davis as the “on-ground, on-site commander” and “shot caller” who “ordered the death” of Shakur.
Shakur’s stepbrother Mopreme Shakur expressed his anger that the arrest took 27 years, telling The Post on Friday he didn’t understand how Davis had been free — even capitalizing on the rapper’s death with interviews and a book boasting about his involvement for so many years.
“[Davis] has said this whole time that he was in the car when his nephew [Orlando Anderson] shot my brother. This didn’t have to happen.”
It has been heavily speculated Shakur’s murder was gang-related.
The rapper was associated with the Bloods street gang and earlier on the night of his death, he had gotten into a fight with Anderson following a boxing match between Mike Tyson and Bruce Seldon.
Following the drive-by shooting, Tupac was rushed to the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada.
He died six days later on Sept. 13 of cardiac arrest.
