Tupac murder case hits major hurdle weeks before trial due to start

With just weeks to go until the murder trial begins, the quest to give justice to Tupac Shakur has potentially hit a massive road block.

Iconic rapper Tupac was gunned down while sitting in a car in a drive-by shooting on the streets of Las Vegas, aged just 25.

An unidentified assailant shot Tupac four times as the car was stopped at a red light and he succumbed to his wounds six days later on 13 September 1996.

After 30 years, the murder case has not been solved.

But, Duane 'Keffe D' Davis was arrested by Las Vegas Police in September, 2023, and he is set to face trial for the murder on 10 August 2026.

However, in a 'staggering twist', The Sun reports that a 'vast array of reports and evidence' has allegedly been 'lost or gone missing.'

The newspaper claims that reports into the hit on Tupac conducted by Los Angeles Police Department officers have not been found by prosecutors during the three years that they have been preparing for the case.

It's reported that two computer floppy discs and a micro cassette featuring information that investigators spent years compiling are unusable.

Duane 'Keffe D' Davis previously claimed he was in the car the shots that killed Tupac Shakur were fired from (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Additionally, it's alleged, a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) investigation into suspect Davis is also not available.

The DEA probe is said to have lasted for at least a decade and includes intel on Davis' alleged criminal enterprise, which he has often bragged about.

The Sun adds that Chief Deputy District Attorney Marc DiGiacomo has confirmed the evidence is missing or lost.

It's reported that Davis is 'delighted at the news, because he was uncertain about what intel they had on him over 15 years of being on his a**'.

The unavailable evidence could have a big impact on the case, with The Sun's Emma Parry saying: "Despite Keefe running his mouth for years, I now believe a guilty verdict in August’s trial is far from guaranteed."

LADbibleGroup has approached the Las Vegas Police Department for comment.

Davis has denied murdering Tupac

Davis, who was diagnosed with cancer in 2018, has pled not guilty to murder and in an interviews with ABC News in 2025, he claimed that he only confessed to a part in the killing because he was paid to lie about it.

He said: "I'm innocent, I ain't killed nobody. Never did, ever killed nobody."

Davis has been known to investigators for some time, having previously admitted in interviews and in his 2019 tell-all memoir, Compton Street Legend, that he was in the Cadillac where the gunfire erupted during the shooting.

However, he denied writing the book and claimed it contained false statements.

"I just gave him details of my life, and he went and did his little investigation and wrote the book on his own," Davis claimed as he insisted on his innocence again,

"I did not do it.

"They don't have nothing. And they know they don't have nothing. They can't even place me out here. They don't have no gun, no car, no Keffe D, no nothing."

His 2023 arrest came two months after Las Vegas Police raided his wife’s home on 17 July in, with documents saying police were looking for items 'concerning the murder of Tupac Shakur'.