Former gang leader charged with rapper Tupac Shakur's 1996 murder

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American legendary rapper and actor, the late Tupac Shakur. PHOTO | POOL

A quarter of a century after Tupac Shakur was gunned down in a gang feud in Las Vegas, a man was charged Friday with his murder, a killing that came to symbolise the violence of gangsta rap as it surged into the mainstream.

Duane "Keffe D" Davis, 60, had long acknowledged his involvement in the slaying, boasting he was the "on-site commander" in the effort to kill Shakur and Death Row Records boss Marion "Suge" Knight in revenge for his nephew's assault.