A breakthrough in Tupac Shakur’s case – 27 years later
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🗓️ 5 October 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In 1996, the legendary rapper Tupac Shakur was shot and killed in Las Vegas. Now, nearly three decades later, police have charged a man in Shakur's death. We talk with The Post’s Keith McMillan about Shakur’s life, legacy and what this new charge means.
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It’s been nearly three decades since hip-hop legend Tupac Shakur was killed in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas at the age of 25. Now, police have charged a man in his death: Duane “Keffe D” Davis, who has publicly claimed to have witnessed the killing.
Keith McMillan, a general assignment editor for The Post who has reported on hip-hop, walks us through what happened the night Shakur was shot, Davis’s arrest and indictment, and Shakur’s complex and enduring legacy.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you ready? |
| 0:03.6 | Absolutely. |
| 0:04.6 | Keith, I want to go back 27 years to September 1996 and hear this clip from MTV News. |
| 0:16.9 | Two-box Shakur dead at the age of 25 of complications from several bullet wounds sustained Saturday |
| 0:22.0 | 9 September 7th. |
| 0:23.0 | He was 25 years old. |
| 0:25.0 | Shakur was shot four times after leaving the Mike Tyson boxing match in Las Vegas in |
| 0:29.4 | the car driven by Marion Shug Knight, the head of his labeled death row records. |
| 0:33.4 | The shots were fired from a Cadillac that drove up alongside Knights BMW, but police still |
| 0:38.1 | have no leads on a suspect or motive. |
| 0:40.5 | That's the news for now. |
| 0:41.5 | We'll have more news around the clock here on MTV. |
| 0:44.4 | Keith hearing this, where does that take you? |
| 0:47.2 | I remember being stunned. |
| 0:50.9 | I don't know to that point in hip hop. |
| 0:53.8 | There'd been a figure quite that size that had died at the height of his talent, to the |
| 1:02.3 | height of his powers. |
| 1:05.4 | And when you really, really heard it, it was a shot. |
| 1:08.4 | It seemed like nothing could take him down at that point. |
| 1:11.6 | Keith McMillan is an editor at the post. |
| 1:14.0 | He's done a lot of reporting on the history of hip hop. |
| 1:17.3 | So I wanted to talk with him about two-box Shakur's murder. |
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