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## Video: Witness to the 1996 Drive-By Shooting of Tupac Shakur Charged in Rapper's Death

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_Published 2023-09-29. A man who prosecutors say orchestrated the 1996 drive-by shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur was arrested and charged with murder Friday in a long-awaited breakthrough in one of hip-hop’s most enduring mysteries._


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## Transcript

27 years. 27 years for 27 years, the family of Tupac Shakur has been waiting for justice. We are here today to announce the arrest of sixty-year-old Dwayne, Keith Davis, aka Kiki, Dee for the murder of Tupac Shakur. Davis was arrested this morning by my lvmpd criminal apprehension team. And this investigation started on the 9th of September 7th 1996, it is far from over. It has taken countless hours, really Decades of work by the men and women of our homicide section to get to where we are today prior to September 7th of 1996. As we all know, Tupac Shakur was a artist who is signed with Death Row, Records, and that Death Row Records and its CEO Marion Suge Knight We're closely affiliated with the mob, Piru criminal street gangs and that they added ongoing feud with the South Side.

Compton Crips. Dwayne Davis was the leader and shock collar of the South Side. Compton Crips at some point time. As they were in the white Cadillac mr. Davis took the gun that he had obtained and provided it to the passengers in the rear seat of the vehicle as they were both as they were driving West. On Flamingo, Road near Cobalt, they located the black BMW, which was driven by Suge Knight and then passion Street was Tupac Shakur and as they turned around, they pulled up near the passenger side of the vehicle and immediately began shooting at mr. Night and mrs. Shakur,

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