Till date, Tupac’s murder is still shrouded in mystery. Tupac is considered one of the greatest rappers in hip hop history, but his bustling career came to a tragic end when he was murdered in a drive-by shooting in 1996.
Despite the myriad of conspiracy theories and attempts to solve the case of his murder, the identity of the gunman that took Tupac’s life has remained a mystery for 22 years.
In a 10-part Netflix docuseries tagged ‘’Unsolved, the Tupac and Biggie Murders’ the truth may have just been revealed in an interview with Tupac murder suspect Duane Keith Davis – also known as ‘Keefe D’.
Keefe D said it was his nephew that pulled the trigger.
Keefe D, who made the confession during a taped conversation under immunity, said he was in the car when Orlando ‘Baby Lane’ Anderson shot Tupac.
Tupac was shot four times in the chest on September 7, 1996 while he was in Las Vegas. He died on September 13.
Trouble started when Anderson tried to steal a Death Row Records medal from a member of Tupac’s entourage – which was affiliated with LA gang The Bloods.
Tupac and his followers then beat up Anderson at the MGM Grand later that night after watching a Mike Tyson fight.
Anderson was a member of rival LA gang the Southside Crips. After the fight, they were out for revenge.
Davis in the Netflix docuseries said they hopped into their Cadillac to find Tupac after the beat down, knowing he was due to perform at 662 Club that night.
There were four people in the car: Terrence ‘T-Brown’ Brown behind the wheel, Keefe D in the front passenger seat, plus Anderson and DeAndre ‘Dre’ Smith in the back.
The group bought booze and waited for the rapper to show up.
‘All the chicks was like “Tupac!”, and he was like “Hey” like a celebrity, like he was in a parade,’ Keefe D revealed.
‘If he wouldn’t even have been out the window we would have never have seen him.’
‘I gave it to Dre and Dre was like ‘”no, no, no” and Lane was like – popped the dudes,’ Keefe D said in the taped confession in the documentary.
‘He leaned over and rolled down the window and popped them.’
Speaking months ago before the Netflix show, in a separate documentary titled ‘Death Row Chronicles’, Keefe D said he is ill and wanted to finally tell the world what happened on that sad September night.
‘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 said.
‘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.’
Yet at the time Keefe D still refused to name the killer, saying that he was ‘going to keep it for the code of the streets’.
‘It just came from the backseat bro,’ he added.
Keefe D has finally revealed it was Anderson, sitting in the backseat just as he said, who ultimately pulled the trigger. Anderson, who always denied he murdered Tupac, was killed in a shootout in Los Angeles two years later.
Keefe D’s revelation seem to have put an end to the numerous notions that have twirled around Tupac’s death for more than two decades.