Las Vegas police search a house as part of their investigation into the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department can confirm that a search warrant was issued in the neighboring city of Henderson on Monday, a spokesman said in a statement to AFP, reports RTE.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal newspaper reported that the house was searched.
Twenty-five-year-old Shakur, the best-selling hip-hop artist behind hits like California Love, died in September 1996 after being shot four times in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas. His killers were never caught.
Monday’s search was “part of the ongoing Tupac Shakur homicide investigation”, said the police statement, without providing any further details, reports RTE.
“It’s a case that’s gone unsolved and hopefully one day we can change that,” Lieutenant Jason Johansson told the Review-Journal, reports RTE.
The controversial Shakur had a brief but spectacular career, quickly rising from backup dancer to self-proclaimed gangsta rapper, becoming one of hip-hop’s most influential figures, selling over 75 million records.
Shakur also became a key figure in the fierce rivalry fueled by promoters between East Coast and West Coast hip-hop.
Although Shakur was born in New York, he moved with his family to California as a teenager, becoming one of the most recognizable figures on the West Coast scene.
He survived the November 1994 shooting and was released from prison in October 1995 pending an appeal against his December 1994 conviction for sexually assaulting a female fan.
The circumstances of Shakur’s death in September 1996 remain unclear, and theories have long been plentiful.
Six months after Shakur’s murder, his rival, East Coast rapper Christopher “The Notorious Big” Wallace, was fatally shot.
Shakur – whose late mother, Afeni, was active in the Black Panther movement and named him after Tupac Amaru, the revolutionary Inca warlord – used his lyrics to address issues facing African Americans, from police brutality to mass incarceration.
The first biography of his life to be approved by his estate will be published in October, reports RTE.
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