Police seized laptops, memoir from the home of a witness to Tupac’s 1996 killing

By Teresa Moss

Published Thursday, July 20, 2023 | 8:45 a.m.

Updated Thursday, July 20, 2023 | 10:50 p.m.

A recently served search warrant on known gangster Duane Keith Davis, who goes by “Keefe D,” in connection to the 1996 fatal shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur resulted in police seizing multiple electronic devices, photographs and a copy of “Compton Street Legend.” 

The request for a search was signed by Clark County Judge Jacqueline M. Bluth on Saturday and executed by Metro Police at a Henderson home Monday. A returned warrant was filed Tuesday. 

The search warrant mainly focused on electronics such as laptops, tablets, phones and desktop computers but also included any “notes, writings, ledgers and other handwritten or typed documents concerning television shows, documentaries, YouTube episodes, book manuscripts and movies concerning the murder of Tupac Shakur.”

It also looked for any documentation concerning Keefe D’s involvement with the Southside Compton Crips. 

Copies of the book “Compton Street Legend” written by Keefe D and published in 2018 were included in the warrant along with any notes regarding the book. A summary for the book states Keefe D details his role in both Shakur and Christopher “Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace’s murder. 

Shakur, 25, was the victim of a drive-by-shooting near the intersection of Flamingo Road and Koval Lane on Sept. 7, 1996. He was struck three times and died six days later at University Medical Center. 

Keefe D is the uncle of Orlando Anderson, whom Tupac had a conflict with at MGM Grand hours before Shakur was shot while riding in rented BMW 750 of Marion “Suge” Knight, who was head of Death Row Records at the time.

Anderson was interviewed by police shortly after the Shakur shooting when identified as someone Tupac had a conflict with hours earlier in the night, said Cathy Scott, author of “The Killing of Tupac Shakur” and former Las Vegas Sun reporter who reported on the case at the time. Her recent TV appearances include Dateline NBC, the Today Show and Vanity Fair’s crime series. 

Scott said Tuesday that police found a Glock pistol in Anderson’s home not long after the killing, A forensic test on the gun resulted in inconclusive data. 

The LA Weekly reported in 2011 that Davis admitted to an LAPD detective during a taped interview that he was in the car when Anderson killed Shakur. 

Shakur and his entourage reportedly attacked Anderson following the Mike Tyson-Bruce Sheldon heavyweight championship boxing match. It’s been reported the fight started over a necklace someone in Shakur’s entourage claimed was stolen by Anderson months earlier. 

Hours later, as Shakur was in a car traveling to perform at Club 622, a light-colored late-model Cadillac pulled up and a gunman in the back seat opened fire on the passenger side. 

That November, Yafeu Fula, a member of Shakur's hip hop group Outlaw Immortalz, was shot and killed gangland-style in the hallway of a housing project in Orange, N.J. The 19-year-old was part of Shakur's entourage in Las Vegas and was a passenger in a car directly behind Shakur's when Shakur was shot.

Police say Fula's murder was unrelated to the Shakur case, even though Fula was the only witness who told Metro investigators that night that he could possibly identify Shakur's assailant. Fula was killed before police could question him at length.

Then, five months later, on March 9, Christopher Wallace, who also went by the name Biggie Smalls and performed under the name The Notorious B.I.G., was killed in Los Angeles in a shooting similar to Shakur's.

Anderson was killed in a shooting in 1998 in Willowbrook, Calif., in reportedly a gang-related shootout.

Metro announced the search warrant on Tuesday but has not released any other official information on the case.