LAS VEGAS—The first arrest in the 1996 slaying of Tupac Shakur had its roots in the investigation of the killing of Biggie Smalls.
The shooting deaths of the two hip-hop luminaries and rivals—Shakur in Las Vegas and Smalls in Los Angeles six months later—have always been culturally inseparable, and one man, Duane Keffe D. Davis, found himself involved in both investigations.
