Who Killed 2Pac? | The Murder of Tupac Shakur

When LAPD detectives sat down with Duane "Keffe D" Davis in December 2008, they were investigating the murder of Notorious B.I.G. They had built a drug case to pressure Davis into cooperating. He was a person of interest in Biggie's killing because he drove an Impala matching the shooter's car and because he'd been at the party Biggie left minutes before being gunned down. Davis denied any role in...

Twenty-seven years after Tupac Shakur was shot on the Las Vegas Strip, a jury finally answered who pulled the case together — and it took them roughly three hours to convict Duane “Keffe D” Davis of first-degree murder. The case wasn't built on forensics. No weapon was ever recovered. No Cadillac was found. There were no phone records, no surveillance. Prosecutors built their entire case on Davis'...

Keffe D told LAPD investigators in 2008 that Sean "Diddy" Combs offered him a million dollars for the killing of Tupac Shakur. He placed the alleged conversation at Greenblatt's Deli in Los Angeles and said the payment was supposed to come through an intermediary named Eric "Zip" Martin. Combs has denied any involvement for thirty years. Law enforcement has stated he has never been a suspect. The...

A Las Vegas jury delivered the first conviction in the murder of Tupac Shakur, finding Duane "Keffe D" Davis guilty of first-degree murder after roughly three hours of deliberation. Davis, 63, is the only person ever charged in the 1996 shooting that killed Shakur at twenty-five years old. He did not testify during the nine-day trial. Prosecutors argued Davis orchestrated the drive-by as gang reta...

The Keffe D murder trial just handed the jury its last piece of evidence — Duane Davis's own voice on a jail phone. This recap merges Wednesday's and Thursday's testimony into one look at how the prosecution built to that final moment in the case surrounding Tupac Shakur's murder.  The stretch opened with retired Compton gang detective Robert Ladd, who spent years working the department's gang uni...

Two days in a Las Vegas courtroom, and Duane "Keffe D" Davis keeps handing the jury reasons not to believe him. This recap combines Monday's and Tuesday's testimony — Day 5 and Day 6 — in the trial over Tupac Shakur's 1996 murder. Monday's tape was a 2009 police interview: Davis walking detectives through the hunt that started at Club 662, a .40 Glock pulled from a hidden compartment, his nephew O...

Under two hours. Three witnesses. That was the entire defense in the murder trial of the only man ever charged in Tupac Shakur's killing. Two former officers testified about seeing a light-colored Cadillac at Suge Knight's house the night of the shooting, leaving as part of a convoy with Tupac's BMW. Then Dan Long — the detective who led the investigation for fifteen years — testified he couldn't...

The prosecution rested its case in the Tupac Shakur murder trial after eight days and twenty-five witnesses. The final exhibit was a recorded jail call — and four words from Duane "Keffe D" Davis that the fiction defense can't touch. Before resting, prosecutors played Davis on YouTube selling his book as "the real truth." They played him explaining why his side had reason to retaliate after the MG...

A former Compton gang detective told the jury on Day 7 what Duane "Keffe D" Davis was inside the South Side Compton Crips — and why that identity matters more than who pulled the trigger. Robert Ladd identified Davis by a specific gang title and explained to the jury what a person with that title does. He doesn't carry the gun. He doesn't fire. He decides. Tupac's childhood friend Malcolm Greenidg...

The jury heard Duane "Keffe D" Davis on a 2017 recording describing the night Tupac Shakur was killed. He named the gunman. He described the weapon. He discussed Combs and the money. And then the interviewer asked him one question that changed the shape of this trial. Prosecutors played the Death Row Chronicles interview on Day 6 of the murder trial, with filmmaker Michael Dorsey on the stand. Dav...

Thirty years of asking who killed Tupac Shakur, and the answer playing in a Las Vegas courtroom is Duane "Keffe D" Davis narrating the night himself. Day 5 put his 2009 police interview in front of the jury, and it starts with what he wanted the moment he knew Tupac was gone. From there the tape rolls through his whole account: the Tyson fight, the lobby beating of his nephew, a failed hunt for Su...

Detectives sat Duane "Keffe D" Davis down in 2008 to talk about the murder of the Notorious B.I.G. Nobody in that room asked him a single question about Tupac Shakur. He brought it up himself.  That's the detail sitting at the center of the Tupac Shakur murder trial now underway in Las Vegas. Davis had already told the FBI years earlier that neither he nor his nephew had anything to do with Shakur...

Thirty years of arguments about who shot Tupac Shakur came down to a speaker in a Las Vegas courtroom playing Duane "Keffe D" Davis's own voice. The jury in the Tupac Shakur trial heard his 2008 account of the white Cadillac and the night of September 7, 1996, along with the promise detectives made before he said a word: none of it could ever be used against him. Davis is not charged with firing t...

For nearly thirty years, Keffe D described the night Tupac Shakur was shot in Las Vegas. He detailed the beating of his nephew Orlando Anderson at the MGM Grand, the retaliation plan, the white Cadillac, and the shooting at a red light. He told law enforcement. He appeared on camera. He co-authored a book. Prosecutors opened by calling his own words the evidence — a pattern of admissions nobody as...

"We did the other one." Five words Keffe D Davis offered voluntarily to an LAPD detective who was investigating a completely different murder. Daryn Dupree was working the Biggie Smalls homicide case when Davis told him that remark. Dupree testified on Day 3 of the murder trial that "the only other one was Tupac." Nobody asked Davis about Tupac. He brought it up himself. Before Dupree took the sta...

Some of Tupac Shakur's family members walked out of the Clark County courtroom on Tuesday before autopsy photographs appeared on screen. His cousin Zayd Akinyela stayed in his seat and watched photographs of a body that had been dead for six days when they were taken. Day 2 of the Duane "Keffe D" Davis murder trial put the physical record of Shakur's death in front of a jury for the first time sin...

Duane "Keffe D" Davis walked into a Clark County courtroom Monday in a blue suit and tie, scanned the audience, and sat down next to his attorney. Thirty years after the most famous unsolved murder in American music, someone was finally sitting in front of a jury. One juror told the court during selection that she'd never heard of Tupac Shakur. Davis is the first person ever charged in the killing...

No murder weapon. No DNA. The man prosecutors say pulled the trigger has been dead since 1998. And yet Duane "Keffe D" Davis is on trial in Las Vegas for the murder of Tupac Shakur, largely because of what came out of his own mouth over the past fifteen years. He described his alleged role to the LAPD in a 2008 proffer session. He repeated it on BET's "Death Row Chronicles." He wrote it down in de...

The only man ever charged in Tupac Shakur's murder is standing trial in Las Vegas, and what the prosecution is walking in with may surprise you. There is no recovered gun. There is no DNA. Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson, Duane "Keffe D" Davis's nephew and the man prosecutors say opened fire from the back seat of the white Cadillac, denied involvement and was killed in Compton in 1998. He can't be cr...

In "Compton Street Legend," published in 2019, Duane "Keffe D" Davis described in detail his alleged role in the murder of Tupac Shakur. He placed himself in the white Cadillac. He described providing the gun to his nephew Orlando Anderson. He described the motive — retaliation for Anderson being beaten by members of Tupac's entourage at the MGM Grand on the night of September 7, 1996. Davis had t...

Keefe D told federal agents and Las Vegas detectives that Sean Combs offered a million dollars for the lives of Tupac Shakur and Suge Knight. He wrote about it in a book. He talked about it on camera. Court filings in the murder case reportedly reference Combs seventy-seven times. A Netflix documentary put the allegation in front of a global audience. And Combs has denied any role in Tupac’s death...

For almost thirty years, the people who loved Tupac Shakur the most had the least power to do anything about his death. That just changed. Mopreme Shakur — Tupac's stepbrother, the man who stood beside him in Thug Life and Outlawz — has filed a wrongful death lawsuit that goes further than any legal action in this case has ever gone. The suit names Keffe D and targets up to one hundred unnamed ind...

Almost thirty years. That is how long Tupac Shakur's family has been waiting for real accountability. His mother Afeni is gone. His stepfather Mutulu is gone. The alleged triggerman is gone. Witnesses have disappeared. And the family is still filing lawsuits, still demanding answers, still refusing to accept that silence is the final word. Mopreme Shakur just filed a wrongful death suit naming Kef...

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TUPAC MURDER TRIAL DELAYED UNTIL 2026 – KEEFE D’S DEFENSE DROPS BOMBSHELL CLAIMS! The long-awaited Tupac murder trial has just taken a shocking turn! Duane “Keefe D” Davis , the only person ever charged in connection to Tupac Shakur’s murder , was set to face trial in 2025, but now it’s been pushed back to 2026 . Why? New defense claims have surfaced, and the case is becoming even more complicated...