The man charged with murder in the death of Tupac Shakur 27 years ago made his first court appearance in Las Vegas on Wednesday.
Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 60, entered the courtroom wearing a dark blue prison uniform and limping slightly as he faced a judge. During the hearing he said that he has a lawyer, which means his case can continue.
After the brief hearing, he was sent back to the Clark County Detention Center, where a source told The Post that Davis is kept away from other inmates and has been placed in the medical unit.
“They don’t want anyone to interact with him… they’re clearly worried about him getting hit,” the source said. “He is definitely being watched. Other prisoners are not allowed to approach where he is being held.”
A Nevada grand jury indicted Davis on charges of murder with the use of a deadly weapon along with a gang enhancement for the 1996 shooting of the “All Eyez On Me” rapper on the Las Vegas Strip.
Duane “Keffe D” Davis is led into the courtroom at the Regional Justice Center on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023, in Las Vegas. Davis has been charged with the shooting death of rapper Tupac Shakur in 1996. APTupac was shot to death on the Las Vegas Strip in 1996.AP
After Wednesday’s court hearing, Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson told reporters that Davis, an admitted member of the South Side Compton Crips gang, will remain in jail until his next court appearance.
“The evidence is clear and the presumption that he will be convicted of first-degree murder is great, allowing us to request a no-bail setting,” Wolfson said.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police served a search warrant in July at the home of Davis’ wife, Pamela Clemons, in Henderson, Nevada, as part of the investigation.
The car in which rapper Tupac Shakur was shot to death by an unknown gunman in 1996. The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Duane “Keffe D” Davis was arrested early Friday morning and charged with conspiracy to commit murder. Getty Images
Investigators seized several computers, laptops and iPads from the home, as well as .40-caliber cartridges, according to a search warrant obtained by The Post.
Shakur’s death remained unsolved since he was shot to death on September 7, 1996, by someone inside a white Cadillac.
Davis wrote in his memoir “Compton Street Legend” that his nephew Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson was the one who shot Shakur to death from the back seat of the car.
However, Chief Deputy District Attorney Marc DiGiacomo said Davis was the crew’s “on-the-ground and on-site commander” and “decision maker” who “ordered the death” of Shakur. instead of being a mere spectator.
Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson speaks during a news conference about the indictment in the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur.AP
Anderson had always denied pulling the trigger. He died in 1998 in another gang shooting. The other two men in the car, Terrence Brown and DeAndre Smith, are also dead.
In his tell-all book, Davis wrote that he agreed to talk to local authorities and the FBI about the shooting in exchange for dropping drug charges in a federal case for which he faced life in prison.
Greg Kading, a retired Los Angeles police detective who spent years investigating Shakur’s murder, told The Post that Davis’s agreement does not cover the interviews he has given since then or his book, in which he readily admitted to obtaining the weapon and being at the crime scene. .
“Everything he has said outside of that original offer is not protected, so everything he has said publicly is self-incriminating evidence,” Kading told The Post.
Tupac was 25 years old at the time of the shooting.AP
Davis said he was in the Cadillac during the drive-by of rapper and then-CEO of Death Row Records Marion “Suge” Knight, who was driving the car the rapper was riding in.
“When we got there, I was in the front seat,” Davis revealed in a BET interview in 2018. “I just happened to see my friend Suge.”
“You said the shots came from behind,” the interviewer asks Davis. “Who shot Tupac?”
“We will keep it as street code,” Davis said. “It just came from the back seat, bro.”
Nevada does not have a statute of limitations for prosecuting murder cases.
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