Duane “Keefe D” Davis, the alleged perpetrator in Tupac’s tragic murder, now faces an impending arraignment date in Las Vegas, NV, where he’s being held without bail.
As per court documents obtained by close sources, Davis is charged with a Category A felony for “murder with the use of a deadly weapon with the intent to promote, further or assist a criminal gang.” The prosecution contends that Davis carried out the act on the orders of the South Side Compton Crips.
The motive, according to the prosecution, was an act of “retribution” against the iconic “Dear Mama” rapper and former Death Row CEO, Marion “Suge” Knight. Davis is set to be arraigned on Wednesday (October 4) for this grave crime.
Although the indictment refers to him as “Keffe D” instead of “Keefe D,” both monikers have been used interchangeably.
In a significant development, after the grand jury return hearing on Friday (September 29), Sheriff Kevin McMahill of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department addressed the media. He underscored that there’s no statute of limitations for murder in Nevada or any other state in the union. He attributed Davis’s arrest to the relentless dedication of his department in solving this long-standing case.
“For 27 years, the family of Tupac Shakur has been waiting for justice,” he stated emphatically. “It has taken countless hours — really, decades — of work by the men and women of our homicide section to get to where we are today.”
Sheriff McMahill went on to emphasize, “While I know that there have been many people who did not believe that the murder of Tupac Shakur was important to this police department, I’m here to tell you: that was simply not the case. It was not the case back then, and it is not the case today.”
Davis’s arrest represents a watershed moment in the investigation into Tupac’s murder, which had remained unsolved for an agonizing 27 years.
The tragic incident occurred on September 7, 1996, when 2Pac fell victim to a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas. Six days later, he succumbed to his injuries, abruptly ending the life of one of Hip Hop’s most influential icons.
Davis, 60, has consistently maintained that he was present inside the vehicle from which the fatal shots were fired. In a 2018 interview, he asserted that his nephew, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, was among two individuals seated in the backseat, the area from which the shots were fired.
In a fateful turn of events, mere hours prior to the shooting, 2Pac and his entourage engaged in a confrontation with Anderson in the lobby of the MGM Grand, where the Mike Tyson vs. Bruce Seldon fight was hosted.
Although Anderson was identified as a suspect in the case, he was never apprehended or formally charged. Tragically, he met his end in an unrelated gang-related shooting in 1998.