Duane “Keffe D” Davis Found Guilty in Tupac Shakur Murder Case
Jurors reached their verdict on Monday evening.
American rapper, songwriter, and actor Tupac Shakur (1971-1996), poses for a portrait during the 1994 Source Awards on April 25, 1994 at the Paramount Theatre in New York, New York. (Photo by Bob Berg/Getty Images)
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Nearly 30 years after the crime, Duane “Keffe D” Davis has been found guilty of the murder of Tupac Shakur. A jury reached its verdict on Monday (Aug. 31).
In a trial that lasted just over two weeks, prosecutors argued that Keffe D secured the weapon used to shoot and kill Shakur after Shakur and his Death Row Records entourage assaulted Keffe D’s nephew, Orlando Anderson, at Las Vegas’s MGM Grand Casino on Sept. 7, 1996. Keffe D has been convicted of first-degree murder with the use of a deadly weapon with the intent to promote, further, or assist a criminal gang for the shooting. He faces life in prison.
Keffe D originally admitted to being involved in the crime during a proffer interview with Los Angeles and federal law enforcement in 2008. The authorities were trying to get information about the killing of Shakur’s rival, The Notorious B.I.G., at the time, and Keffe D was trying to get out of serious prison time for drug charges. As part of the proffer agreement, Keffe D’s statements were limited in how they could be used by the government against him. However, those protections did not apply when he began admitting his role in the crime in a BET docuseries, Death Row Chronicles, various YouTube interviews, and even his own memoir, Compton Street Legend, in the late 2010s.
You can watch the verdict be delivered in the video below.
