It might be over 25 years since Tupac Shakur was killed in a Las Vegas shooting incident, but the cold case is still under investigation and led to a recent SWAT raid.
A chaotic scene ensued outside a home in Las Vegas on July 20 as Vegas Metro PD descended on a quiet community in Henderson, Nevada around 10 PM to issue a search warrant, TMZ reports. Authorities shouted through a megaphone demanding for the people inside the home to come out.
A shocking video shows one officer ordering a woman to drop her cigarettes and exit the home along with one man who was told to place his hands in the air and walk toward the police backward. Police seized items from the home in connection with Tupac’s decades-old murder case, ABC News reports.
Among the items retrieved included magazine articles about Tupac’s murder, computers, hard drives, and pictures from the 1990s that show individuals who might have been connected to people directly or indirectly involved in the 1996 drive-by shooting. Copies of the book “Compton Street Legend” by Duane Keith Davis, known as Keffe D, someone who has publicly identified himself as one of two living eyewitnesses to Tupac’s murder, were also seized.
Authorities are considering the search success but doubt any of the items retrieved will produce a direct link between the mission of the investigation and Tupac’s murder. The evidence is now being presented to a Las Vegas grand jury.
If anyone does get indicted as a result of the search, that process could take months from now. Authorities have long believed Tupac’s killer died in a separate shooting incident in 1998. They are now investigating to determine who was in the car with the gunman who fatally shot Tupac, which could lead to someone being charged as an accomplice.
Tupac Shakur was shot multiple times on Sept. 7, 1996, in Las Vegas after attending a boxing match with Suge Knight. The platinum-selling rapper died in the hospital six days later from his injuries at the age of 25.
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