Bloods, Crips, and the Murder of Tupac Shakur

By: Ignacio Esteban

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

On the night of September 07th, 1996, Tupac Shakur and Suge Knight were riding in a black BMW 750iL sedan and were headed to Knight’s Death Row Record nightclub, Club 662 (MOB) in Las Vegas. Earlier that evening, Shakur, Knight and their entourage attended the Mike Tyson fight at the MGM Grand. After the fight, members of the entourage spotted Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, a Southside Compton Crip who allegedly had robbed a Death Row Record chain medallion from one of them earlier that year. Immediately, the group assaulted Anderson for stealing the medallion in the lobby of the MGM Grand while the hotel’s surveillance cameras recorded the assault.
At around 11:15 p.m., a white, four-door, late model Cadillac sedan pulled up to the passenger side of the black BMW that Suge Knight was driving while Tupac Shakur was in the passenger seat. An occupant in the white Cadillac opened fire striking Shakur four times and wounding Knight in the head. Shakur was immediately taken to a local hospital where in died a week later from internal bleeding and respiratory failure.
After twenty-seven years, local authorities arrested Duane “Keefe-D” Davis in connection to the murder of Tupac Shakur. Davis had written about and talked about being present when his nephew Orlando Anderson allegedly shot and killed Shakur that evening in Las Vegas while they were inside the white Cadillac. According to Davis, his nephew used a Glock .40 caliber semi-automatic pistol when he shot Shakur four times and then drove back to their hotel room.
The circumstances that led to Davis’s arrest should have happened years earlier but only after his constant remarks about his involvement during online interviews and writing about it finally resulted with his arrest on September 29th, 2023. This is the story of that evening and the events that transpired since Shakur’s murder including an all-out gang war between Bloods and Crips in Compton and the murder of another rapper Christopher Wallace, aka Biggie Smalls.