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Las Vegas police served a search warrant this week in connection to the more than quarter-century-old unsolved slaying of rap icon Tupac Shakur, authorities said Tuesday.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department issued a statement, confirming that a search warrant was served in Henderson, Nevada, on Monday as “part of the ongoing Tupac Shakur homicide investigation.”
“We will have no further comment at this time,” the statement concluded.
The 25-year-old Shakur died on Sept. 13, 1996, following a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas.
While he’s been gone for more than 25 years, the rapper is arguably as famous and relevant now as he was at the time of his death.
The Oakland City Council earlier this year voted to rename portion of MacArthur Boulevard, a main thoroughfare of the Bay Area town, in honor of the music icon.
“Tupac knew deep down that he was always meant for something great,” his sister, Sekyiwa “Set” Shakur, said last month at a ceremony adding her late brother’s star to The Hollywood Walk of Fame.
“And as his little sister, I had the privilege to watch that greatness unfold.”
The Northern California native’s slaying came six months before the fatal shooting of 24-year-old Brooklyn rapper Notorious B.I.G. in Los Angeles.
That 1997 slaying, like Tupac’s murder, has also gone unsolved for all these years.
Nevada does not have a statute of limitations for prosecuting homicide cases.
Largely considered one of the most influential and versatile rappers of all time, the six-time Grammy Award -nominated Shakur has had five No. 1 albums: 1995’s “Me Against the World,” 1996’s “All Eyez on Me,” and three posthumous releases: 1996’s “The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory,” which was recorded under the name Makaveli, as well as 2001’s “Until the End of Time” and 2004’s “Loyal to the Game.”
In 2017, he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame by Snoop Dogg. In June of this year, the rapper received a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He’s also had some museum exhibits that paid homage to his life, including “Tupac Shakur. Wake Me When I’m Free,” which opened in 2021.
His professional music career only lasted five years, but Shakur secured 21 Billboard Hot 100s, including top 10 hits “Dear Mama” and “Old School” in 1995, and his best-known track, 1996’s “How Do U Want It/California Love” featuring K-Ci and JoJo. The latter spent two weeks at the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 from his final studio album and Death Row Records debut, “All Eyez on Me.”
According to entertainment data company Luminate, Shakur has sold 33 million albums, 41 million when including track sale and streaming equivalents. The rapper’s on-demand video and audio streams total 10.1 billion.
The Associated Press contributed.