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Suspect charged with murder in 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur

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A man who has long acknowledged he was in the car that pulled alongside Tupac Shakur on the night the rapper was gunned down in Las Vegas was charged Friday with murder in the 1996 slaying, prosecutors said.

Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 60, was taken into custody early Friday, authorities said. He was indicted on a charge of murder with the use of a deadly weapon with an enhancement of intent to preserve or assist a criminal gang.

“I know a lot of people have been waiting for this day,” Clark County, Nevada, District Attorney Steve Wolfson said during a news conference Friday.

Wolfson said a grand jury had been seated for months to help bring new charges in the case.

Shakur was gunned down nearly

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