Suspect in Tupac Shakur Murder Allegedly Implicates Sean "Diddy" Combs, Court Document Claims

Tupac Shakur, photographed for ‘Poetic Justice’ in 1993, was shot and killed in Las Vegas in 1996 after a boxing match.

The man accused of murdering rapper Tupac Shakur in 1996 allegedly implicated Sean “Diddy” Combs during a 2009 interview with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police, according to a court document.

The document, filed by the Clark County District Attorney’s Office on July 18 and obtained by Fox5Vegas, includes a notable footnote where prosecutors claim Duane “Keffe D” Davis contradicted himself in the 2009 interview, which is part of newly obtained evidence.

Davis allegedly suggested to Las Vegas police that Combs, the head of Bad Boy Records, was willing to pay for the shooting due to a feud with Marion “Suge” Knight, the head of Death Row Records. While there have long been rumors of Diddy's involvement, he has never been charged or named as a suspect by police.

Tupac Shakur murder suspect Duane Davis appears in a Las Vegas area court.

Davis has publicly maintained that he only "told on himself" and wasn’t trying to provide evidence against anyone else during his conversations with police. However, the district attorney's footnote states: “[Davis] suggested that Sean Combs paid Eric Von Martin a million dollars for the killings and offered to set up a surreptitious phone call with Terrence Brown, the driver, who was still alive at the time.”

The district attorney's filing was in response to Davis asking the judge to reconsider his bail conditions. Last month, Davis requested permission to post $112,500 of the $750,000 bond to be released to house arrest, claiming the money was being funded by entertainment manager Cash “Wack 100” Jones. The judge denied the request, expressing concern over the source of the bail bond money, suspecting that Jones might be acting as a front for another entity or person.

Duane “Keffe D” Davis allegedly mentioned Sean Combs while speaking about the shooting of Tupac Shakur with Las Vegas police in 2009.

The judge has given Davis' lawyer, Carl Arnold, one week to provide documentation about the source of the money.

Davis was arrested and charged last September for the 1996 shooting of Shakur. Prosecutors allege that Davis, as the leader of the South Side Compton Crips, orchestrated the shooting after his nephew was beaten up by Shakur and his associates that same night.

Davis has pleaded not guilty to the charge of murder with the use of a deadly weapon with the intent to promote, further, or assist a criminal gang.