Breaking news just in to CNN.
Las Vegas
police have arrested
a suspect
in connection
with the 1996 Drive-By shooting death
of legendary rapper Tupac Shakur.
CNN's
Bernal joins us live right now,
along with CNN legal
analyst Joey Jackson.
So first to you, Camilla.
What are we learning about this arrest
Harbaugh is sources
telling CNN
that they have arrested Dwayne
Keith Davis, also known as Cassie.
He was arrested this morning,
according to sources, in connection
with the killing of Tupac Shakur.
Now, we do know that in July,
the Las Vegas
Metro Police Department
served a search warrant
on Davis, his wife's home.
And what they were looking for
was any evidence
linking to this crime
they were looking for anything
that could
show motive
as to the killing of Tupac Shakur.
And specifically,
we know that in this search warrant,
police were able to obtain
multiple tablets, an iPhone.
They took five computers,
USB drives, photographs.
So we know
that they have been
looking into this case
and had been investigating this case
since it happened in 1996.
At the moment,
we do not know what
Davis has been charged with.
We are expecting a press conference
later on today
to get details from authorities.
But again,
this is something that happened in 1996
and police have been looking into
for years now.
Dwayne Keith Davis,
he had described himself
as one of the only witnesses
to this shooting.
If you recall, Tupac Shakur was in a car.
They were at a boxing match at the MGM
Grand in Las Vegas.
They were in a car
and all of a sudden
there was another car
that pulled next to them and the shooting
began.
It's unclear exactly who shot Tupac.
But again,
this is a huge development
in this case years later, as we now know
that there is someone
arrested in connection to this case
for us.
Joey, to you,
it's been nearly three decades
since Tupac was shot and killed.
This is a surprising development,
to say the least. What's your reaction
Yes, obviously a
significant and surprising development
without question.
But I think that what we have to
understand is in murder
cases,
there is no statute of limitations.
It's quite common
that you have law enforcement
throughout this country
that continue to operate
in a cold case capacity,
continue to follow
leads and decades later,
sometimes they come to a conclusion.
Obviously, in any arrest here. Right.
Anyone is presumed
innocent until proven guilty.
But police have been working this case.
And, in fact,
they are giving the indication
that is police
that potentially this person
was quite involved.
Now, remember, right.
In the event that there's a pull up
shooting and indications are
it happened from the back
seat of that white Cadillac.
27 years ago in September.
But, you know,
in the event that you aided
abetted, assisted
or acted in concert, you'd need
not even be the person
who pulled the trigger.
There are some indications
from the person
that they have in custody
now that it was his nephew
who was in the backseat.
Again, all allegations.
His nephew, of course, who is now dead.
But his nephew denied
that he was involved at all.
And, of course,
the giving up of his nephew,
the person in custody
now is in connection with another case
where he was questioned.
There's certainly reports
from his own book
that he was present, that he was there,
that he was in that vehicle now.
Mere presence, to be
clear, is never enough.
You have to establish
that you had knowledge of it.
We're in on it and acted in accord
with whatever was occurring.
And so certainly now,
after all of this
time, yes,
there are challenges,
Boss, in moving forward.
But you have to believe
that based on the search warrant
they conducted in July of the suspect's
wife's home,
based upon
the information
they gathered,
based upon street intelligence
and other information
that they have probable cause
to believe that he's involved.
And we'll see how the prosecution
moves forward after today.
Joey, to me
just the fact that this was
a cold case for so long is significant
because this was a very public shooting
on the Las Vegas Strip.
You imagine
there were many witnesses there,
and it came
after a fight right at the MGM
Grand that was caught on security camera
in which
there was always suspicion
that some of the folks
that were involved in that fight
may have been involved
in Tupac's shooting.
Talk to us about the challenges
of looking into a case like this.
With nearly 30 years of cold evidence
Yeah, that's a great question.
Certainly you want to have a rest
that are closer
in time to when an incident occurred.
For a variety of reasons. Right.
The nature of the evidence
presented, the memories
of the witnesses, the value,
whether people's memories have gone stale
or gone cold.
But you don't now know, right?
The reality is,
is that
if you're investigating a case
for a long standing,
presumably police have done
a very diligent job, have information
just not based on the arrest today,
but of information
that they've gleaned over the course
of a number of years.
And connecting the dots.
They have information
that this particular
suspect, verbal statements, he's
given memoirs of his own
that have been out there.
We don't know bars
who police have spoken to in the course
of getting to today,
how they have connected this person here,
how other information
may have been preserved.
The police have remember,
we have the public reports,
but we don't know the
in-depth information
that police have glean.
So, yes,
in any prosecution,
even if you got in a murder
that occurred yesterday,
there are challenges.
However,
in the contrary,
you're pretty good at putting together
cold cases.
And they've been significant
amount of convictions
predicated upon cases
that are decades old.
We'll see what
the nature of the evidence is here
or at least get a look into that
when there's a press conference
held that announces
more with respect to what
that evidence could be.
Now, we're going to be watching
that press conference very closely.
Again, if you're just joining us,
major breaking news
and the murder of legendary
rapper Tupac Shakur.
There has been an arrest in Las Vegas
in that case.
Joey Jackson coming up now.
Thank you so much. For that.