Key suspect arrested in 1996 Tupac Shakur murder case after 27 years

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Tupac Shakur, marking a breakthrough for a long-unsolved case that was a defining moment in the history of rap music. Authorities described Davis as the "shot caller" of a hurried plot to avenge the beating of his nephew, Orlando Anderson, inside the MGM Grand Garden Arena by members of Shakur's entourage on the night of September 7, 1996, according to Reuters reports.

Speaking at a media briefing, Metropolitan Police Department Lieutenant Jason Johansson said, “He orchestrated the plan that was carried out to commit this crime." Police showed hotel security footage of several men kicking and punching a person they identified as Anderson near a bank of elevators before security personnel broke up the altercation. Of these, one person seen attacking Anderson was identified as Marion “Suge" Knight, co-founder and then-CEO of Los Angeles-based Death Row Records, which produced Shakur's records, Reuters reported.

Johansson said that the incident then led to the retaliatory shooting death of Tupac Shakur. After obtaining a gun from an unnamed associate, Davis, along with Anderson and two other men, Terrence Brown and Deandre Smith, boarded a white Cadillac and rode off to locate the black BMW that Knight had driven away from the hotel with Shakur as his passenger.

Shots were fired from the Cadillac into the passenger side of the BMW when Davis and the others caught up to Shakur and Knight's vehicle. Shakur, struck four times, died in a hospital six days later at the age of 25.