Duane “Keffe D” Davis Found Guilty of Orchestrating Tupac’s Murder

A Las Vegas jury found 63-year-old Duane “Keffe D” Davis guilty of Tupac Shakur’s 1996 murder, a killing that has lingered in the annals of rap history and American crime. Monday, the jury declared Davis guilty of first degree murder a couple hours after hearing closing arguments from prosecutors and defense attorneys with Marc DiGiacomo and Binu Palal of the Clark County, Nevada district attorney’s office painting a picture of Davis as a gang leader and the shot caller who called for the rapper to be hunted down while putting a gun in the hand of the triggerman. “(Davis) acquired firearms, got his group together, and went hunting for Mr. Shakur,” Palal told jurors, as reported by Billboard. Davis’ defense attorney, Michael Sanft, depicted his client’s own words about being with the armed posse that tracked down Shakur as spelled out in a 2019 memoir as the fictionalization of a man seeking money and fame from the infamous shooting. A ghost-writer made up implicating parts of the memoir, Sanft told jurors. Sanft argued before the jury box that Davis liked to “bullshit” and said, “What you’re going to find is that the state cannot prove to you beyond a reasonable doubt the claim tha...