Duane “Keffe D” Davis sentenced to 40 years to life for Tupac Shakur murder
Duane “Keffe D” Davis, a former leader of the South Side Compton Crips, was sentenced Tuesday to 40 years to life in prison for orchestrating the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas.
A jury found Davis, 63, guilty of first-degree murder with use of a deadly weapon. Prosecutors said he organized the retaliatory attack after Shakur and members of his entourage assaulted Davis’s nephew at the MGM Grand on September 7, 1996. Hours later, a white Cadillac carrying Davis and three other men pulled alongside the vehicle in which Shakur was riding. Shakur was shot and died six days later at age 25. Davis was not accused of firing the fatal shots, but prosecutors argued that he supplied the gun and directed the group.
The case remained unsolved for nearly three decades. Prosecutors relied heavily on Davis’s accounts in media interviews and his 2019 memoir, *Compton Street Legend*, in …