(Los Angeles) A ​​former gang leader accused of the murder 27 years ago of hip-hop star Tupac Shakur appeared Wednesday for the first time in American justice.

Las Vegas police on Friday arrested Duane “Keffe D” Davis, a former leader of the South Side Compton Crips, a Los Angeles gang, and charged him with the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur in this Nevada metropolis.

Handcuffed and dressed in blue prison garb, Duane “Keffe D” Davis was arraigned in a local court Wednesday, according to the Las Vegas Review Journal, the gambling capital’s leading news outlet.

Now 60 years old, Duane Davis has long admitted that he was in the white Cadillac from which the four bullets were fired that killed Tupac Shakur, at the age of 25.

In a book published in 2019, the person concerned, however, assured that the shots had been fired from the rear of the vehicle while he was in the front.

Duane Davis “was the mastermind behind this group of individuals who committed this crime and he orchestrated the plan that was implemented” to carry it out, Lt. Jason Johansson of the Las. police argued last week. Vegas.

According to the laws in force in Nevada, this indirect role does not prevent his indictment for murder.

On September 7, 1996, Tupac Shakur, known for the hits Dear Mama, California Love or Changes, attended a Mike Tyson boxing match, in the company of Suge Knight, founder of his label Death Row and affiliated with the Mob Piru gang in Los Angeles. Angeles, several members of which were also present.

But Mob Piru was an enemy gang of the South Side Compton Crips, then led by Duane Davis. After the fight, members of Death Row Records spotted and beat Duane Davis’ nephew, Orlando Anderson.

According to Las Vegas police, it was in the wake of this incident that Duane Davis began hatching a plan to take revenge on Suge Knight and Tupac Shakur. He is accused of having provided a weapon to the passengers who were in the back of the car from which fire was opened on the rap star.