It’s quite possibly one of the biggest mysteries in the world of music, but even now, almost 22 years after the fact, folks are still wondering just who killed Tupac Shakur. However, it seems like we might be close than ever to finding out the truth, with a longtime suspect reportedly confessing to playing a role in the artist’s death and naming the actual shooter.
Tupac Shakur’s death famously occurred on September 7th, 1996, when the rapper was shot and killed by an unknown assailant in Las Vegas while riding in a car with former Death Row Records CEO, Suge Knight. While Knight has spoken in the past about who thinks the killer was, a new confession may turn the whole mess on its head.
Earlier this year, the documentary series Unsolved premiered on Netflix and focused on the murders of both Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G. While filming the program, suspect Duane Keith Davis – also known as ‘Keefe D’ – spoke to producers while under immunity, revealing that he played a part in the murder of Shakur.
Speaking as part of a seperate documentary titled Death Row Chronicles, Keefe D revealed that he had decided to come forward due to his ill health.
“I was a Compton kingpin, drug dealer, I’m the only one alive who can really tell you story about the Tupac killing,’ Keefe D explained. “People have been pursuing me for 20 years, I’m coming out now because I have cancer.”
“And I have nothing else to lose. All I care about now is the truth.”
Keefe D explained that he was sitting in the passenger seat of the white Cadillac that the fatal shot came from, but chose not to reveal the name of the shooter. “Going to keep it for the code of the streets,” he explained. “It just came from the backseat bro.”
However, as The Daily Star reports, one of Keefe D’s taped confessions reportedly shows him revealing that it was his nephew, longtime suspect Orlando ‘Baby Lane’ Anderson, that pulled the trigger on that fateful night after the Cadillac rolled up alongside Tupac Shakur and Suge Knight.
“I gave it to [DeAndre ‘Dre’ Smith] and Dre was like ‘no, no, no’ and Lane was like – popped the dudes,” Keefe D claimed in his confession.
“He leaned over and rolled down the window and popped them.”
Despite repeated denials of involvement in the shooting, Orlando Anderson was killed in a gang-related shootout in 1998 at the age of 23.
This news seems to be rather exciting to Kyle Long, the producer of Unsolved, who strongly believes that Las Vegas police should look into the information provided by Keefe D.
“He went live on television and confessed to being an accessory to murder and the Las Vegas PD, as far as I know, is doing nothing about it,” Long said.
“I just think it’s outrageous.”
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