Keefe D is currently behind bars awaiting trial for 2Pac‘s murder, though an officer involved in the case is now claiming that the gangster’s nephew was bragging about pulling the trigger back when the killing occured.
Compton Gang Unit officer Robert Ladd, who worked on the investigation following the 1996 shooting, spoke to VladTV about the ongoing mystery in a conversation published on Saturday (February 3).
While explaining how a miscommunication between Las Vegas PD and Compton PD led to a missed opportunity to intercept a white Cadillac allegedly involved in the murder, he also revealed that multiple informants named Keefe’s nephew Orlando Anderson as the shooter.
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“Within the next few days [of the shooting], we started getting calls from informants,” he said. “And our first ones were saying, ‘Hey it’s Keefe [and] Orlando was the shooter.’ They’re telling us that Bubble Up and Big Dre were in the car.
“This is days after. This is informants telling us. And it’s just not us; other people had informants too. [Former Compton Police chief] Reggie Sr., this guy in charge of the narcotics unit, Bobby Baker — they were also getting calls with the same information.”
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He continued: “So it wasn’t just us getting information about this. We were told that Orlando came back and started to brag about it — not Keefe D, not Big Dre, not Bubble Up. It was just Orlando. Everyone’s telling us, ‘Orlando’s coming back, he’s bragging about killing them.’
“You know, rightfully so, probably. But this is within his own gang. So then the word spread and people start calling us.”
last year, TMZ spoke with Suge Knight over the phone to get his thoughts on Keefe D’s arrest in 2Pac’s murder investigation, as it marked the first time charges have been made in the 27-year-old case. The former Death Row Records boss, however, said that Orlando didn’t do it.
“Well, surprise, number one,” Suge said while reacting to the news. “Because I don’t think Keefe D would ever get arrested, nor do I want to see him get arrested.
“Let’s get one thing straight, first and foremost: me and Keefe D played on the same Pop Warner football team. And whatever circumstances — if he had an involvement with anything, if he didn’t have an involvement with anything — I wouldn’t wish somebody going to prison on my worst enemy.”
“There were only two people in the car,” said the Los Angeles native, who was sat next to 2Pac and also wounded during the fatal drive-by shooting. “’Pac’s not gonna tell the story, I ain’t gonna tell the story, but I can tell you this: I never had nothing bad to say about Orlando because […] he wasn’t the shooter [..] It wasn’t Anderson, so that’s all I got to say about that part.”
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As for Keefe D, he recently got rid of his public defenders and has hired a new attorney to represent him in the murder trial going forward. The notice of substitution was filed in the Las Vegas courts on January 18 and accepted the following day.
Records show that Carl Arnold, a Howard University School of Law graduate who has been named to the National Trial Lawyers Top 100, is now representing the ex-gang leader and accused killer.
