(NewsNation) — The federal probe involving Sean “Diddy” Combs could be linked to the investigation of rapper Tupac Shakur’s death, according to one former FBI agent.
Phil Carson, a retired FBI agent who worked on the Notorious B.I.G. case, joined “CUOMO” on Friday and suggested a possible tie between information that led to the arrest of Duane “Keefe D” Davis in connection with rapper Tupac Shakur’s death and the recent federal agent search of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ properties.
“Something new evidence-wise had to come out within the last year in order for them to obtain that search warrant and ultimately arrest Keefe D,” Carson said.
Davis, now charged with murder in the death of Tupac Shakur, said in a 2019 memoir and in media interviews that he was in the car from which gunfire erupted during the drive-by in Las Vegas that killed Shakur 27 years ago.
Greg Kading, a retired Los Angeles police detective who spent years investigating the killing, previously told NewsNation he believes Davis “talked himself straight into prison.”
Davis was long known to investigators as one of four suspects identified early in the investigation into the 1996 killing. Although he isn’t the accused gunman, investigators have described Davis as as the group’s ringleader.
“Keefe D has always stated that he was going to be paid just over $1 million by Sean Combs to take out and kill Tupac,” Carson said. “Now, Keefe said he never received that full $1 million … he’s coming up to trial in June and when people start coming up to trial, they start talking and they start saying things that they normally would take to the grave.”
Federal Homeland Security agents searched two of Combs’ properties in Los Angeles and Miami on Monday as part of an ongoing sex trafficking investigation by New York federal authorities, NewsNation affiliate WPIX confirmed at the time of the search.
Combs attorney Aaron Dyer issued a statement the following day, saying speculation about the raids “leads to premature rush to judgment.” He went on to call the widespread public speculation “nothing more than a witch hunt based on meritless accusations made in civil lawsuits.”