Las Vegas police have searched a home as part of their investigation into the murder of the rapper Tupac Shakur in 1996.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department "can confirm a search warrant was served" in the neighbouring city of Henderson on Monday, a spokesperson said in a statement to AFP.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal newspaper said a home had been searched.
Twenty-five-year-old Shakur, the best-selling hip-hop artist behind hits such as California Love, died in September 1996 after being shot four times in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas. His killers have never been caught.
Monday's search was "part of the ongoing Tupac Shakur homicide investigation", said the police statement, without providing any further details.
"It's a case that's gone unsolved and hopefully one day we can change that," Lieutenant Jason Johansson told the Review-Journal.
The controversial Shakur had a brief but spectacular career, rapidly rising from backup dancer to self-styled gangsta rapper, becoming one of the most influential figures in hip-hop, who sold 75 million records.
Shakur also became a key figure in a vaunted rivalry, egged on by promoters, between East Coast and West Coast hip-hop.
Though born in New York, Shakur moved as a teenager with his family to California, becoming one of the most identifiable figures in the West Coast scene.
He had survived a November 1994 shooting and had been released from prison in October 1995 pending an appeal of his December 1994 conviction for the sexual abuse of a female fan.
The circumstances of Shakur's death in September 1996 remain murky, and theories have long abounded.
Shakur's murder was followed six months later by the fatal shooting of his rival East Coast rapper Christopher 'The Notorious BIG' Wallace.
Shakur - whose late mother Afeni was active in the Black Panther movement and named him after Tupac Amaru, a revolutionary Inca chief - used his lyrics to raise issues facing African Americans, from police brutality to mass incarceration.
The first biography of his life to be authorised by his estate is to be published in October.
Source: AFP
