Los Angeles police reportedly lose files in Tupac Shakur murder case
The Los Angeles Police Department have reportedly lost key files in the Tupac Shakur murder case.
Duane ‘Keefe D’ Davis is set to go on trial on August 10th after being accused of orchestrating the rapper’s murder in Las Vegas in 1996.
According to The Sun, evidence has been lost or gone missing, with reports examining the 1996 murder unable to be located by prosecutors over the three-year investigation.
These include floppy discs, micro cassettes, and a DEA probe, involving surveillance, meetings with informants, and information about Keefe’s alleged criminal enterprise.
Chief Deputy District Attorney Marc DiGiacomo confirmed the loss of files while discussing the original LAPD lead detective, Brent Becker.
“We located Detective Becker because there was a lot of information in the Biggie Smalls murder about communications between Metro and LAPD, related to the Biggie Smalls investigation,” he said. “When I talked to Becker, I sent him the number of reports we have from him. And he indicated that there were substantially more reports than that.”
He continued, “They began to save their reports that they wrote, to two, 3.5 inch, floppy discs. We searched Metro and determined that in 2018, Detective Mogg sent two 3.5 floppy discs, and DVDs that appears to be surveillance that they, years and years and years ago, had of Mr Davis in California, two small cassettes, and then there was a micro cassette that was sent over.”
Keefe is charged with one count of murder with the use of a deadly weapon and the intent to promote, further, or assist a criminal gang.
Speaking on the loss of files, Keefe’s lawyer, Mike Sanft, said, “The Clark County District Attorney has had 30 years to put their case together. They re-tested ‘evidence’ to a grand jury in 2023 that led to Mr Davis being arrested in his home. The State ought to avoid this embarrassment of a case and dismiss it before we have to put on a trial.”