Investigators have confirmed that, despite the flurry of headlines you've probably seen over the past week, the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur remains unsolved.
In a new documentary, a tape of former gang member Duane Keith Davis discussing the Sept. 7, 1996 Vegas shooting was excerpted. "People have been pursuing me for 20 years, I'm coming out now because I have cancer, and I have nothing else to lose," Davis, who also recalled hearing gunshots "from the backseat," said in the tape. "All I care about now is the truth."
The bulk of the ensuing reports notably failed to point out that Davis had made similar but far more specific claims to police years earlier, even claiming his late nephew Orlando Anderson was the one who fired the fatal shots. The following exchange appears in an LAPD archives excerpt cited by LA Weekly in 2011:
Detective Kading: "So Orlando shot across Dre?"
Anderson, however, denied this and was never charged.
Now, in a new statement to Fox 5 Vegas' Adam Herbets, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has responded to the documentary comments. "We are aware of the statements made in the BET interview regarding the Tupac case," a rep said Wednesday. "As a result of those statements we have spent the last several months reviewing the case in its entirety. Various reports that an arrest warrant is about to be submitted are inaccurate." The murder, the rep added, "remains an open homicide case."
