Ex-gang boss sentenced to 40 years for orchestrating Tupac Shakur's murder
The former gang leader received credit for 731 days already served after jurors found he plotted the 1996 shooting in retaliation, prosecutors said.
- On Tuesday, October 13, 2026, Judge Carli Kierny sentenced Duane 'Keffe D' Davis to 40 years to life for orchestrating the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur, with 731 days of credit for time served.
- Prosecutors secured the conviction without a murder weapon by utilizing Davis's own admissions from his 2019 memoir and 2008 police interviews after Judge Kierny ruled the proffer agreement void.
- Davis, a former leader of the Southside Compton Crips, orchestrated the shooting in retaliation for a fight between his nephew, Orlando 'Baby Lane' Anderson, and Shakur's entourage at the MGM Grand earlier that night.
- Davis claimed to police that Sean 'Diddy' Combs offered him a million dollars to kill the rapper, but Combs denied the allegation in a statement to CNN, characterizing it as a bid for notoriety.
- Although often linked to the 1997 murder of Christopher Wallace, the trial focused exclusively on the Shakur investigation, and Davis remains the only person ever charged or convicted in the death of the 25-year-old star.
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Duane Davis boasted in books and interviews about his involvement in Shakur's murder, then denied it at trial.
A U.S. court has sentenced a former gang leader to 40 years in prison for planning the murder of legendary rapper Tupac, who was shot and killed 30 years ago.
UPDATE: Duane 'Keffe D' Davis Sentenced To 40 Years To Life In Prison For Orchestrating Tupac Shakur's Murder
Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis was sentenced Tuesday (Oct. 13) to 40 years to life in prison for orchestrating the murder of Tupac Shakur. The rap icon was gunned down off the Las Vegas Strip over 30 years ago. 63-year-old Davis was convicted in August of first-degree murder with the use of a deadly weapon. He [...]
The ex-figure of the South Side Compton Crips was found guilty at the end of August, following a trial that shelled his compromising confidences on the night of the murder, drawn from his own memoirs.
Three decades after the death of the rapper, gang leader Duane Davis is sentenced to at least 40 years in prison in Las Vegas. Statements in his memoirs also played a role in the trial.
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