The arrest was “bittersweet” for the Shakur family.
After Las Vegas police arrested a suspect in Tupac Shakur’s murder on Friday (September 29), Shakur’s brother Mopreme Shakur is now speaking out about the events. The arrest of Duane “Keffe D” Davis came 27 years after the rapper was hit by multiple shots from a car at a traffic light. A few days later he died of his wounds in hospital.
Shakur’s brother spoke to TMZ about the family’s reaction to the news of the arrest. “It’s bittersweet for a number of reasons,” Mopreme Shakur said. “The time, of course, 27 years. It didn’t have to be like this, it didn’t have to happen at all. I wouldn’t even have to live in the reality of my brother not being here.”
He continues: “Justice is accountability, that’s the sweet part in bittersweet. […] I’m getting ready because it’s not over yet. We still need to see if there were accomplices, we still need to find the motive.”
According to Mopreme Shakur, the family was contacted by the Las Vegas Metro Police Department to inform them that the investigation is ongoing. However, they knew nothing about the impending arrest.
In another interview, he shares his thoughts on the time it took for Keffe D to be arrested. The member of the South Side Compton Crips – a gang that is particularly active in California – said in 2019 that he was sitting in the car from which the shots were fired. He also admitted this in his autobiography.
Mopreme Shakur told the New York Post: “The timing is so strange because why now, 27 years after his death? [Davis] said all along that he was in the car as his nephew [Orlando Anderson] shot my brother. This didn’t have to happen.”