Las Vegas Police press conference on the arrest of Tupac Shakur’s murder suspect Duane “Keffe D” Davis – 29 September 2023
Davis has previously acknowledged that he was in the car that pulled up next to the rapper’s vehicle when he was shot.
The indictment alleges Davis obtained a firearm for the attack “for the purpose of seeking retribution against Tupac Amaru Shakur” and Marion “Suge” Knight, the head of his record label, Death Row, and a longtime affiliate of a rival set, the Mob Piru.
The document does not contend Davis pulled the trigger, but it argues his hand in the crime was just as heavy as any shooter’s. The indictment states Davis and three other gang members with him that night conspired to kill Tupac “by acting in concert throughout.”
Davis, the document states, willed Tupac’s death by “counseling, encouraging, hiring, commanding, inducing and/or otherwise procuring the other to commit the crime,” it alleges.
“Duane Davis was the shot caller for this group of individuals that committed this crime and he orchestrated the plan that was carried out,” Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Jason Johansson said at a news conference Friday announcing the arrest.
On Sept. 7, 1996, the night he was shot, Shakur and his entourage were in Las Vegas for a heavyweight bout between Mike Tyson and Bruce Sheldon.
