Duane “Keffe D” Davis has been sentenced to at least 40 years in prison for organising Tupac Shakur’s 1996 killing in Las Vegas. He says he will appeal.
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01Summary
- 01A jury found Davis, 63, guilty in September of one count of murder with a deadly weapon over the 7 September 1996 drive-by shooting.
- 02Prosecutors said Davis was the ringleader and supplied the gun, although he did not fire it himself.
- 03The judge, Carli Kierny, said Davis could not take Shakur’s life and “just walk away from it”.
- 04Shakur’s sister, Sekyiwa Shakur, and brother, Maurice Shakur, asked for the longest possible sentence.
- 05The conviction was the first in a cold case that had remained unsolved for nearly 30 years.
02Why it matters
The sentence brings the first courtroom verdict in one of hip-hop’s most famous unsolved killings. It gives Shakur’s family a measure of closure, while Davis’s planned appeal means the case is not over.
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