Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis gets 40 years to life in prison for orchestrating the murder of Tupac Shakur
The gist
Duane "Keffe D" Davis, 63, got 40 years to life for orchestrating Tupac Shakur's 1996 murder.
The case closes a 30-year Las Vegas cold case built on Davis' own words.
How it unfolded
- Sep 7, 1996Shakur was in the passenger seat of a black BMW with Marion "Suge" Knight when a white Cadillac pulled up at a red light and shots erupted; Shakur was struck four times and died in a hospital six days later.
- Sep 7, 1996Within hours of a casino brawl involving Shakur's entourage, Davis ushered his nephew and two other associates into a white Cadillac and went looking for Shakur and Knight, according to an account Davis later gave police.
- 1998Anderson, who had denied involvement in Shakur's killing, died in an unrelated shooting.