Authorities in Nevada will be conducting ballistics tests on 11 bullet cartridges uncovered in a July 17 search of the home of 58-year-old Paula Clemons, who is married to “Keefe D,” the uncle of the alleged triggerman in the slaying of rap icon Tupac Shakur.
Keefe D, born Duane Keith Davis, is a former gang member believed to be connected to the still-unsolved 1996 Las Vegas slaying.
During serving a search warrant of the Henderson, Nevada, home near Interstate 11 and Wagon Wheel Drive, local authorities were hoping to find evidence connecting the 60-year-old to the decades-old cold case or that suggested his involvement with the South Side Compton Crips, according to The Las Vegas Review-Journal.
The Las Vegas Metro Police Department seized more than two dozen items in total including laptops, tablets, a copy of VIBE Magazine featuring coverage of Tupac, and copies of Keefe D’s memoir, “Compton Street Legend.” Nearly a dozen .40-caliber bullets were also seized from the residence.
While officials consider the search a success, detectives are doubtful their findings will directly link Keefe D to the crime and describe the ballistics testing as “routine.”
“The likelihood of the bullet cartridges being a direct match is not high,” one police official told Radar Online. “When evidence is recovered in a search under warrant — and it is the same make as the murder weapon, as these are — a ballistics test is an obvious investigative procedure.”
Tupac was struck by four .40-caliber bullets from a Glock handgun on Sept 7, 1996, and died from his injuries six days later. Despite a number of investigations and theories about who was behind the murder, there still has never been a single arrest made.
While public interest in the case has remained high throughout the years, the official investigation into the murder had seemingly gone ice cold until the search of Keefe D’s home.
Prior to the search, it was…
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