Las Vegas police searched a home Monday in connection with the investigation into the killing of superstar rapper Tupac Shakur.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department searched a home in Henderson, Nev., less than 20 miles from the Las Vegas Strip where Shakur, 25, was killed in a 1996 shooting.
“LVMPD can confirm that a search warrant was served in Henderson, Nevada on July 17, 2023, as part of the ongoing homicide investigation of Tupac Shakur,” Las Vegas police said in a statement . “We will have no further comment at this time.”
When Tupac was killed
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On the night of September 7, 1996, Shakur and Marion “Suge” Knight, head of Death Row Records, left a boxing match at the MGM Grand in a black BMW.
While they were stopped at a red light at East Flamingo Road and Koval Lane on the Las Vegas Strip, a white Cadillac approached Shakur’s vehicle and opened fire. Shakur was shot multiple times and died of his injuries six days later.
No one has ever been arrested or charged in the shooting, in part because witnesses refused to cooperate with authorities, Las Vegas police said.
Investigating Tupac’s murder
The investigation into Shakur’s murder has spanned nearly three decades.
In 2019, he assumed that Greg Kading, a retired Los Angeles police detective CBS News Los Angeles that Shakur’s murder had already been solved after Duane Davis, aka Keffe D, confessed to his involvement in Shakur’s murder while being questioned in connection with Biggie Smalls’ murder.
But at the time, Las Vegas police said only that the case was still an open investigation.
Tupac’s legacy
Last month, Shakur he was posthumously awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in honor of his contributions to the arts, as well as his activism for racial equality.
In May the city hall of Oakland, California voted unanimously to rename a stretch of MacArthur Boulevard between Grand Avenue and Van Buren Avenue, where the rapper lived, as “Tupac Shakur Way.”
The rapper influenced the hip-hop genre and amassed a global fan base, selling more than 75 million records worldwide and earning six Grammy Award nominations during his short five-year recording career.
