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Las Vegas police execute search warrant in Tupac Shakur murder case

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Rapper Tupac Shakur is pictured at a voter registration event in South Central Los Angeles in 1996. That same year, he was fatally shot in a drive-by shooting.

Rapper Tupac Shakur is pictured at a voter registration event in South Central Los Angeles in 1996. That same year, he was fatally shot in a drive-by shooting.

Rapper Tupac Shakur is pictured at a voter registration event in South Central Los Angeles in 1996. That same year, he was fatally shot in a drive-by shooting.

Police executed a search warrant on Monday in connection with the shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur in 1996.

Detectives from the Las Vegas Metro Police Department executed a search warrant in Henderson, Nevada, police confirmed in a statement to HuffPost on Tuesday, but declined to comment further.

The police investigation took place in a residential building about 24 kilometers southeast of Las Vegas, several media reported.

The hip-hop icon, best known for her hits “Califonia Love” and “Dear Mama,” died at the age of 25 from multiple gunshot wounds while sitting in a car near the Las Vegas Strip with Marion “Suge” Knight, the former co-founder and CEO of Death Row Records.

On September 8, 1996, a black BMW with bullet holes can be seen in a police parking lot in Las Vegas. One day earlier, rapper Tupac Shakur was shot while riding in the car of Suge Knight, chairman of Death Row Records.On September 8, 1996, a black BMW with bullet holes can be seen in a police parking lot in Las Vegas. One day earlier, rapper Tupac Shakur was shot while riding in the car of Suge Knight, chairman of Death Row Records.

On September 8, 1996, a black BMW with bullet holes can be seen in a police parking lot in Las Vegas. One day earlier, rapper Tupac Shakur was shot while riding in the car of Suge Knight, chairman of Death Row Records.

On September 8, 1996, a black BMW with bullet holes can be seen in a police parking lot in Las Vegas. One day earlier, rapper Tupac Shakur was shot while riding in the car of Suge Knight, chairman of Death Row Records.

“It’s an unsolved case and hopefully one day we can change that,” Lt. Jason Johansson of the Metropolitan Police Department told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Alleged gang member Orlando Anderson, 22, was watched in connection with the shooting but was never charged. A year after Shakur’s death, his mother filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Anderson, accusing him of killing her son, the Los Angeles Times reported at the time.

Anderson publicly denied shooting Shakur. He was killed two years later in a gang shootout.

Fellow rapper Notorious BIG, whose real name was Christopher Wallace, was also targeted in connection with Shakur’s killing. He is said to have offered members of a Compton gang a million dollars to carry out the attack.

Wallace’s family vehemently denied that claim, saying he was at his New Jersey home at the time of the shooting. Wallace was shot in a drive-by shooting in California in March 1997 and died in a hospital.

Last month, Shakur was posthumously honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, just a week before his 52nd birthday. In 2017, he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

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