Recently released Las Vegas police video shows a suspected former gang member under investigation for the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur yelling obscenities after being handcuffed and saying “I can’t breathe” after Las Vegas police carried issued a search warrant at his Henderson home last month.
In footage released by the Metropolitan Police Department, Duane Keith Davis is seen being detained while police officers and SWAT personnel carry out a court-approved search warrant to search and seize items of interest in the Tupac investigation in inside his home on suburban Maple Shade Drive in Henderson on July 17.
Police seized numerous items, including laptops, iPads, an iPhone, a hard drive, a USB drive, photos, books, gun cartridges and property-related documents from the Davis home.
Police detectives were trying to locate items related to Shakur’s death that “tend to show evidence of motive and/or the identity of the perpetrator,” according to the court order.
Videos show Davis obeying police orders to leave his garage with his hands on his head, walking backwards into the street and cooperating, before yelling profanity after officers handcuffed him for questioning.
Davis also yelled “I can’t breathe” as officers took him into custody.
The footage only included the moment Davis and a woman he identified as his wife left the house at the behest of police, who used megaphones to get their attention. The videos did not show the search of the interior of the house that same night.
Davis, 60, is a suspected gang member whose nephew, Orlando Anderson, was considered a suspect in the fatal shooting of Shakur on Sept. 7, 1996, at the intersection of Flamingo Road and Koval Lane, a few blocks east of the Strip. .
Shakur died six days later, but the attacker has never been caught or identified.
In the moments before the shooting, Shakur had emerged from the MGM Grand, where he had watched the heavyweight bout between Mike Tyson and Bruce Seldon, and was in a BMW driven by Death Row Records founder Suge Knight. The BMW was stopped at a red light as a Cadillac approached and a shooter fired multiple shots at the BMW and the Cadillac fled the scene.
Anderson, who had gotten into a fight with Shakur the same night the rapper was killed, was killed in a gang-related shooting in 1998.
