Tupac Murder Trial: Ex-Gang Leader Found Guilty
The 63-year-old former gang boss was convicted of first-degree murder after prosecutors said his own statements helped prove he orchestrated the killing.
- Nearly three decades after hip-hop star Tupac Shakur's murder, a Las Vegas jury found former gang figure Duane Keffe D Davis guilty of first-degree murder, just days before the 30th anniversary of the 1996 killing.
- Hours before the shooting on September 7, 1996, Shakur's entourage assaulted Davis's nephew, Orlando Anderson, at the MGM Grand hotel; prosecutors alleged Davis orchestrated the killing in retaliation for the beating.
- In his 2019 memoir Compton Street Legend, Davis admitted being inside the Cadillac used in the drive-by and claimed he disposed of the murder weapon after Shakur was struck four times and died six days later.
- District Judge Carli Kierny ordered the 63-year-old Davis to remain jailed until his October 13 sentencing, where he faces a life sentence; Davis indicated he intends to appeal the verdict.
- While Davis was convicted of orchestrating the attack, prosecutors never accused him of firing the weapon, and the actual shooter remains officially unnamed despite Davis's allegation that Anderson pulled the trigger.
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Tupac murder trial: Ex-gang leader found guilty
Ex-street gang leader Duane "Keffe D" Davis was found guilty of the murder of hip-hop star Tupac Shakur at a Nevada court on Monday, three decades after the rapper was gunned down in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas. Davis will face a maximum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole at his sentencing on October 13.
For Zoe Sottile it took almost 30 years for someone to be arrested for the shooting murder of legendary rapper Tupac Shakur, an extraordinary lapse that turned the death of the young singer in 1996 into legend and object of conspiracy theories. Instead, a jury composed of 12 residents of Clark County, Nevada, took less than three hours to plead guilty to premeditated murder to Duane “Keffe D” Davis, former leader of the South Side Compton Crips …
U.S. rap legend Tupac, ranked 4th-greatest rapper in the world, gets murder verdict nearly 30 years later as his ashes were once bound for an African nation
Nearly thirty years after the tragic shooting of hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur, a Nevada jury has finally delivered a guilty verdict in his murder case. Duane "Keffe D" Davis was convicted of first-degree murder on Monday for his role in orchestrating the 1996 drive-by shooting near the Las Vegas Strip.
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