The Tupac murder investigation just made a surprise jump forward as Vegas police have a search warrant in the rapper’s death

• Nevada police executed a search warrant related to the investigation into Tupac Shakur’s death.
• Hip-hop icon Shakur was killed in 1996, at the age of 25, in a case that remains unsolved.
• Nevada doesn’t have a statute of limitations for homicide cases, per The Associated Press.

Las Vegas police executed a search warrant this week in connection with the still-unsolved killing of star rapper Tupac Shakur, the department confirmed to Insider in a statement.

Police carried out the search warrant in connection to the cold case in Henderson, Nevada, according to a statement from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. It’s not clear who or what location was targeted in the search warrant.

Shakur was fatally shot in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas on the night of September 7, 1996. He was 25.

Nevada doesn’t have a statute of limitations for homicide cases, The Associated Press reported. 

The “All Eyez on Me” rapper was stopped at a red light on the Las Vegas Strip when he was gunned down, and treated at a hospital for a week before he died from his injuries.

No arrests have been made in the case, and some witnesses have refused to cooperate in the past, the AP reported.

Shakur is considered an all-time great in the genre, but his posthumous influence also extends beyond hip-hop as a global cultural icon. He released five albums that charted at number one, including “Me Against the World,” in 1995 and “All Eyez on Me,” in 1996, per the AP.

His success also stretched to three albums that were released after his premature death. Throughout his five year career as a solo artist, he topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart with “How Do U Want It/California Love,” featuring K-Ci and JoJo.

Shakur had also survived being shot five times at a Manhattan studio in 1994.

The incident amplified an East-West coast beef that permeated between Suge Knight’s Death Row Records and Sean “Puffy” Combs’ Bad Boy Records, as well as personally between Shakur and late rapper Biggie Smalls, according to the Guardian.

In the streaming era, Shakur’s influence still reigns supreme, having racked up 10.1 billion audio and video streams, according to the AP.

In 2017, Shakur was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame by close collaborator and confidant Snoop Dogg, and this year, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Source: I N S I D E R