Keefe D’s Nephew, Orlando Anderson, “Bragged” About Killing 2Pac, Says Retired Gang Cop

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A retired police officer claims that the nephew of Duane “Keefe D” Davis, the man charged in the 1996 murder of rap star Tupac Shakur, confessed to being the triggerman in the drive-by shooting that took Shakur’s life.

During an interview with DJ Vlad, retired Compton Gang Unit Officer Robert Ladd remembered his department receiving information naming reputed Compton gang member Orlando Anderson as Pac’s shooter. Ladd also said informants placed Keefe D and other associates inside of the vehicle at the time the shooting took place.

“Within the next few days [of the shooting], we started getting calls from informants,” Ladd told Vlad. “And our first ones were saying, ‘Hey it’s Keefe [and] Orlando was the shooter.’ They’re telling us that Bubble Up and Big Dre were in the car. This is days after. This is informants telling us.”

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The officer also alleges that multiple members of law enforcement were privy to Anderson’s supposed role in Shakur’s murder, and that his involvement in the rapper’s death was common knowledge at the time.

“And it’s just not us; other people had informants too. [Former Compton Police chief] Reggie Sr., this guy in charge of the narcotics unit, Bobby Baker — they were also getting calls with the same information. So it wasn’t just us getting information about this.”

According to Ladd, Anderson boasted about his role in Shakur’s murder, incessantly fingering himself as the shooter to fellow gang members. “We were told that Orlando came back and started to brag about it — not Keefe D, not Big Dre, not Bubble Up,” he said.

A booking photo of Duane “Keefe D” Davis, photographed off of a television monitor, is shown during a news conference at the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department headquarters held to brief media members on Davis’ arrest and indictment for the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur on September 29, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. A Nevada grand jury indicted Davis on one count of murder with a deadly weapon in the fatal drive-by shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur.

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“It was just Orlando. Everyone’s telling us, ‘Orlando’s coming back, he’s bragging about killing them.’ You know, rightfully so, probably. But this is within his own gang. So then the word spread and people start calling us.”

Orlando Anderson has been connected to Shakur’s murder on numerous occasions, with Keefe D himself having implicated his nephew in the music icon’s murder. However, Anderson passed away in 1998 and was never charged with Pac’s murder.

In 2023, Keefe D was arrested and charged with one count of murder with a deadly weapon in connection to Shakur’s murder. Keefe D has plead not guilty and is currently awaiting trial.

Watch Officer Robert Ladd’s interview with Vlad TV below.

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