LAS VEGAS (AP) A home Las Vegas police searched this week in connection with the 1996 drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur is tied to a man long known to detectives investigating the case, whose nephew had emerged as a suspect shortly after the rappers killing.

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department confirmed it served a search warrant Monday in the nearby city of Henderson. But the department said it wouldnt release any other details, including where officers were searching and whether they expect to make an arrest for the first time in the slaying of the rapper nearly 30 years ago.

Residents of the small Henderson neighborhood nestled in the foothills of the city about 20 miles southeast of the Las Vegas Strip identified the property where they said they saw officers detain two people while investigators searched the home Monday night.