Tupac Shakur was killed in a drive-by shooting on September 7, 1996, in Las Vegas, Nevada, and died six days later from his injuries. The shooting was carried out by members of the South Side Crips gang from Compton, California, as retaliation for Tupac and his entourage beating Orlando Anderson, a Crip member, earlier that night at the MGM Grand hotel
. Orlando Anderson, who was involved in the earlier altercation with Tupac, is believed to have fired the fatal shots using a .40-caliber Glock pistol. However, Anderson denied involvement and was never charged; he was killed in an unrelated gang shooting in 1998
. In 2023, Duane "Keefe D" Davis, Anderson's uncle and a known gang figure, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in connection to Tupac's killing. Davis has admitted in interviews and his memoir that he was in the white Cadillac from which the shots were fired and that he supplied Anderson with the murder weapon. He is described by authorities as the ringleader who ordered the hit in retaliation for the beating of his nephew Anderson by Tupac
. There have been theories and allegations involving Tupac's rival rapper Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace) and others, but these have not been substantiated with conclusive evidence, and both Wallace and Anderson denied involvement before their deaths
. In summary, the murder of Tupac Shakur is widely attributed to a gang retaliation ordered by Duane "Keefe D" Davis and executed by Orlando Anderson, with Davis charged in 2023 for his role in the killing
