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good evening. thank you for joining us. we begin tonight with the stunning arrest of a suspect in the death of legendary rapper tupac shakur. nearly 30 years after he was gunned down near the las vegas strip. it's the first time anyone has been charged or arrested in connection to the case. investigators laying out the details in a dramatic press conference earlier today. >> this is the indictment we've been waiting almost three decades for. justice will be served. >> police identifying duane keefe d davis as the suspect and former leader of a notorious

california gang. he's now charged with murder and use of a deadly weapon. investigators calling it a retaliatory strike. after this altercation in the lobby of the mgm grand hotel where tupac and death row co-founder suge knight were part of a group that beat up davis's nephew. >> duane davis was the shot caller for this group of individuals that committed this crime. and he orchestrated the plan. >> police say it was davis's own statements in the media starting in 2018 that led to the break in the cold case that has haunted the hip-hop world for decades. davis did not pull the trigger, according to investigators. the other three suspects are all dead. davis is due in court next week. or ashan singh takes a look back at what led to the arrest and how tupac's legacy still looms large. >> i like to think i'm a revolutionary. i like to bring change. >> reporter: tupac shakur, often

referred to as pac by friends and fans, may seem bigger in death than he was in life. he's become a prolific part of pop culture. from our clothes to films about his. >> why the cameras all on me? why me? because i'm tupac? >> reporter: even in music his imprint still fresh. >> look at guys like rick ross. bald head, silk shirt. look at kendrick lamar. unapologetically human. >> drake has tupac's ring on right now that he bought at an auction somewhere. >> i think hip-hop doesn't grow without tupac. >> reporter: but at the time of his death he wasn't just the biggest rap star out there. with hits like "california love." ♪ say what you say but give me that bomb beat from dre ♪ ♪ let me serenade the streets of l.a. ♪ >> and films like "juice." >> you've got to let them know you've got to take them out anytime you feel like it! >> reporter: he was a bona fide

mainstream celebrity. >> this is a superstar who was somehow about to make a mega star turn. that's very rare. >> reporter: pac dined with madonna, went backstage with mike tyson, was on red carpets with rosie perez. >> hey, rosie. >> he's to hip-hop what james dean was to rock and roll in the 1950s. and i always thought that tupac would have been one of the greatest actors ever if he had lived and been able to fulfill his full potential. >> reporter: but it all came crashing down on september 7th, 1996, when tupac was fatally shot near the las vegas strip. [ gunshots ] >> he's a human being. he was shot by real bullets from a real gun. and we're supposed to sit up and play guessing games with you? call me when it's solved. >> reporter: for 27 years tupac's unsolved murder has cast a shadow over hip-hop. his death just the beginning of a pattern of an epidemic in the industry. >> what episode of bad "law &

order" am i living through right now? >> i don't know if true closure actually exists. >> reporter: justice has been elusive. but could a recent raid finally bring closure? in the last year of his life tupac became the face of death row records, an independent record label co-founded by rap icon dr. dre and suge knight, a former college football player and bodyguard. >> in the mid '90s suge knight was the scariest guy not just in hip-hop but in the music industry, period. >> reporter: on the east coast bad boy records ceo puff daddy and notorious b.i.g. with hits like "juicy." ♪ it was all a dream ♪ ♪ i used to read word up magazine ♪ ♪ salt-n-pepa and heavy d up in the limousine ♪ >> the west coast and east coast were pitted against each other in a pressure cooker all while tupac's star was only rising. >> the death row era looms large in our imaginations but in fact it was a very short era. and it was awful.

>> september 7th, 1996 and it felt like practically all eyes were on las vegas. mike tyson was set to fight bruce selden in a bout that was billed liberation. some of music's biggest stars were here that night to watch the fight, including tupac. >> it's over in the first round! >> reporter: tupac was hyped up when iron mike won the fight in under two minutes. an exuberant pac gave an interview to b.e.t., not knowing it would be his last. >> did you see that? 50 punches, i counted it! >> reporter: tupac, suge and their crew walked through the mgm grand hotel lobby. there they encounter orlando "baby lane" anderson, who's reportedly a known member of the south side compton crips. suge reportedly had ties to the rival bloods gang. >> there had been a bounty for somebody to grab a death row gold pendant. and someone two months earlier had grabbed one off of this guy who was with tupac.

so he sees orlando and he says he stole my necklace. and tupac and suge just laid in and just started kicking and stomping on him. >> reporter: the fight was caught on hotel's security camera. >> tupac shakur basically forced himself into gang politics. >> reporter: security broke it up. tupac and his crew left. and anderson declined to press charges. just two hours after that fight at the mgm grand tupac and his entourage head to club 662, a nightclub suge owned by the strip. this is the last known photo ever taken of pac. >> tupac's in a bmw. he's in the passenger's seat. suge is driving. >> reporter: according to police reports, a white car, a cadillac, pulled up beside suge's bmw. a gun emerged from the back seat aimed at tupac's side of the car, followed by a hail of bullets. >> the bullets tear through his chest, hit his hand, tear through his like side and

ribcage. >> and then what did you see? >> blood. >> did you see people with the guns? >> listen carefully. blood. >> reporter: chris carroll, a former bike sergeant with the las vegas police department, says he was one of the first officers on the scene where suge's car came to a stop. >> i noticed there was one guy still sitting in a car. of course this turns out to be tupac. when i pulled open the door he kind of fell out with the door. he's clearly in bad shape. a lot of blood. and i look at him i go who shot you? who did this? he looked right in my eyes and he went [ bleep ] you. >> reporter: six days after he was shot tupac's mother, afeni shakur, did what no parent should have to do. >> tupac had stopped breathing. and every time they revived him he just went back. and i asked them to leave him alone and to let him go. i rejoiced with him and with the release of his spirit.

i rejoiced then, and i rejoice now. >> reporter: he was only 25. according to police reports, the investigation into tupac's murder met problems early on with people refusing to cooperate. >> how much do you think snitch culture hindered what you guys had hoped to accomplish in the investigation? >> the gang mentality, the code of the streets was absolutely the reason why we couldn't get any further than we did. because nobody would talk to us. >> reporter: orlando anderson always denied his involvement in tupac's murder. as well as having any association with the crips. telling the "l.a. times" in 1997, "i wish they would hurry up and catch the killer so my name could be cleared." anderson died in an unrelated gang shootout in 1998. >> fast forward to 2023, and guess where we come, right back where we started. >> the las vegas metropolitan

police department. >> reporter: earlier this summer. >> you need to come out with your hands up and your -- >> reporter: a s.w.a.t. team executed a search warrant at a home linked to duane keefe d davis, the uncle to orlando anderson. >> walk back to the sound of my voice. >> reporter: in his 2019 memoir "compton street legend," keefe d placed himself in the front passenger seat of the infamous white car and claimed orlando anderson was in the back seat. he touts his role as a shot caller for the compton crips and writes, "one of my guys from the back seat grabbed the glock and started busting back." he stops just short of saying who that person was. keefe d also appeared in a b.e.t. documentary about the night of tupac's shooting. >> big dre, orlando. who shot tupac? >> going to keep it for the code of the streets. it just came from the back seat,

bro. >> reporter: keefe d did not respond to impact's requests for comment. >> our thanks to ashan. late tonight tupac shakur's sister released a statement calling tonight a victory and saying her brother's life and death mattered. you can see the full episode of "who shot pac" the murder of tupac shakur on impact by "nightline" streaming on hulu. coming up, remembering dianne feinstein. the trailblazing senator's legacy of service. eumatoid arthritis symptoms. with my psoriatic arthritis symptoms. but just ok isn't ok. and i was done settling. if you still have symptoms after a tnf blocker like humira or enbrel, rinvoq is different and may help. rinvoq is a once-daily pill that can dramatically relieve ra and psa symptoms, including fatigue for some. it can stop joint damage. and in psa, can leave skin clear or almost clear. rinvoq can lower your ability to fight infections,

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tonight we pay tribute to trailblazing senator dianne feinstein, who passed away today at age 90.

>> dianne feinstein, her legacy will be a long one that we will all be inspired by. >> i ask that the senate observe a moment of silence in honor of senator dianne feinstein. >> reporter: on the senate floor friday a vase of white roses honoring the late senator. >> she was smart. she was strong. she was brave. she was compassionate. but maybe the trait that stood out most of all was her amazing integrity. >> she was a historic figure. trailblazer for women and a great friend. >> reporter: the longest-serving female senator in u.s. history. >> as the lead democrat on the judiciary committee, first woman in history -- [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: it was a career marked by many firsts. the first female mayor of san francisco, one of the first

women from california elected to the u.s. senate. and the first jewish woman in the senate. >> her legacy as a woman in politics, you know, standing up through these tough times we will opened the door. >> reporter: former senator barbara boxer was a fellow senator who worked alongside feinstein for two decades. >> if you had met her during the time that she was working so hard on all of these issues, you would have been in awe of her ability to get things done, to cross party lines, to keep focus on her work. and that was -- her work was everything. >> reporter: she got her political start in 1960 after being appointed to the california women's parole board. and her career took off from there. feinstein ran for san francisco mayor twice in the 1970s and had decided not to run again when the unthinkable happened. >> it's been seven hours now since that .38-caliber pistol went off nine times and took the

lives of the two leaders. >> both mayor moscone and supervisor harvey milk have been shot and killed. >> reporter: after mayor george moscone was assassinated, feinstein stepped in to fill his seat. in 1979 she won her first full term to the position she'd hold for a decade. then she made history again in 1992, during what was called the year of the woman she and barbara boxer became the first two women from california elected to the u.s. senate. >> i feel a little bit like i just got married. it was a very special ceremony, to be in the chambers, to be in this room with the history. >> no state had ever elected two women. and she was very popular and i was little known. and yet she took my hand, literally and figuratively. and we did it together. and we had fun doing it. >> reporter: her time in congress decorated with landmark legislation. the 1994 assault weapons ban, telling cnn at the time -- >> let me tell you, i've seen

assassination, i've seen killing, i've been a mayor, i know what these guns can do. why is it every man comes before me and says nice lady, you really don't know? >> reporter: helping to establish the amber alert system. reauthorizing the violence against women act. and authorizing the 2022 respect for marriage act, which enacted federal protections for marriage. >> simply put, americans should be free to marry the person they love regardless of sexual orientation or race. >> reporter: she was also the first woman to chair the powerful senate intelligence committee investigating the cia's use of torture during the iraq war. >> this program was morally, legally and administratively misguided. and that this nation should never again engage in these tactics. >> reporter: this year questions began arising about whether she could continue serving after a case of shingles put her in the

hospital. and news came out that her daughter had been granted power of attorney. former colleagues like former senator heidi heitkamp defending feinstein's decision to stay. >> in no way do i think that in any way tarnishes her contribution. in fact, she was a vote last night to keep the government open. good for her. i think she would be proud that that's her last vote. >> reporter: feinstein's death happening in the middle of a chaotic congressional session, just a day away from a looming government shutdown. speaker of the house kevin mccarthy trying today to get his gop members to vote to pass a stopgap funding bill to keep government open. if congress does not act, an estimated 2 million federal workers and more than a million active duty troops could lose their way. >> can you assure them that this will be averted? >> look, i'm working everything we can to make sure this doesn't happen. >> reporter: but today some unity in a show of respect for the late senator, who cast her

last vote thursday. >> mrs. feinstein. mrs. feinstein, aye. >> she voted and several hours later as i understand it she passed away. and that's dianne. no matter how ill she felt, she didn't feel good, she was going to go and do the work. the work kept her going. >> reporter: friends and former colleagues reflecting on feinstein's lasting legacy. >> she was willing to stand her ground, live her commitment, speak her truth, and suffer the consequences. every time we lose someone who is like that we lose yet another example of what we should be in public life and certainly what a united states senator should be. >> a dedicated american servant to the end. dianne feinstein is survived by her daughter, katherine. up next, the end of an era for netflix. somedays, i cover up because of my moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. now i feel free to bare my skin, thanks to skyrizi.

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and finally tonight, netflix closes a chapter. >> there's a boater way to rent movies. >> after 25 years netflix has mailed its last dvd.

the streaming giant made its bones on mailing what was inside those little red envelopes. >> and in about one business day you'll get three dvds. keep them as long as you want. >> suddenly millions of dvds are flying through the mail. >> but as streaming platforms gathered watchers dvd players gathered dust. >> the company saying it mailed its last dvd this morning. >> it's like saying good-bye to an old friend. that's "nightline" for this evening. catch our full episodes on hulu. we'll see you right back here monday. thanks for the company, america. have a good and safe weekend.