Topline
Duane “Keffe D” Davis pleaded not blameworthy Thursday to a execution complaint complete nan fatal shooting of precocious hip-hop prima Tupac Shakur successful 1996, multiple outlets reported, conscionable complete a period aft nan erstwhile Los Angeles pack personnel was charged successful nan high-profile lawsuit that remained unsolved for much than 25 years.
Duane "Keffe D" Davis pleaded not blameworthy to a execution complaint stemming from nan drive-by shooting of ... [+] Tupac Shakur successful 1996.
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Davis—a erstwhile leader of nan Compton-based South Side Crips who had admitted to being successful nan car wherever a weapon was shot—was indicted by a Las Vegas expansive assemblage successful September connected a charge of execution pinch a deadly limb pinch intent to beforehand aliases assistance a criminal gang.
Clark County Chief Deputy District Attorney Marc DiGiacomo described Davis astatine nan clip arsenic nan “commander” successful nan 1996 drive-by shooting that led to Shakur’s death, accusing Davis of having “ordered nan death.”
Prosecutors told Clark County Judicial District Court Judge Tierra Jones they will not activity nan decease punishment successful nan case.
Surprising Fact
Under Nevada’s aiding and abetting statute, Davis tin still beryllium charged pinch execution moreover if he did not propulsion nan trigger. Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson told reporters successful September that nether nan law, suspects tin beryllium deemed “equally arsenic guilty” if they “help personification perpetrate a crime,” alternatively than perpetrate nan enactment itself. Davis admitted to being successful nan car successful a 2018 Netflix documentary astir nan murders of Tupac and East Coast rival Notorious B.I.G. Unsolved: The Tupac and Biggie Murders, and again successful a BET interview, saying his precocious nephew, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson—a fishy successful nan decades-long case—was besides successful nan car. Anderson died successful 1998, 2 years aft Shakur’s death.
Key Background
Shakur roseate to stardom arsenic a hip-hop icon successful nan early 1990s, receiving six Grammy Awards nominations and topping U.S. euphony charts pinch singles “California Love,” “Changes” and “Dear Mama.” He was changeable from nan backmost spot of a achromatic Cadillac connected nan nighttime of September 7, 1996, while riding successful a BMW pinch Death Row Records co-founder Marion “Suge” Knight, pursuing a Mike Tyson boxing lucifer successful Las Vegas. Shakur was deed 4 times successful nan shooting, and died 1 week later, astatine 25. His killing—as good arsenic nan drive-by sidesplitting of nan Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace) conscionable six months aft Shakur’s death—had gone unsolved for much than 26 years.
Further Reading
Duane Davis Charged With Murder Of Tupac Shakur Following Decades Of Investigations (Forbes)
Duane Davis Can Be Convicted Of Tupac Shakur’s Murder Even If He Wasn’t The Triggerman—What To Know About The ‘Hardened Gangster’ (Forbes)
Tupac Shakur Murder: Las Vegas Police Search Home Tied To Uncle Of Dead Suspect (Forbes)
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