NewzAuthorities said they long believed Davis was involved in Shakur's killing but lacked sufficient evidence to charge him. LAS VEGAS, Oct 13 (Reuters) - A former gang leader was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison on Tuesday for orchestrating the 1996 drive-by shooting death of hip-hop star Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas, capping the prosecution of a long-unsolved murder that shaped the golden age of rap music. Duane “Keffe D” Davis, the former Los Angeles gang leader who boasted in books and interviews of his involvement in the killing of rapper Tupac Shakur, only to deny it when he came to trial, was sentenced to a minimum 40 years in prison on Tuesday.
Former Los Angeles gang leader Duane "Keffe D" Davis was found guilty of ordering the killing of hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur A former gang leader was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison on Tuesday for orchestrating the 1996 drive-by shooting death of hip-hop star Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas, capping the prosecution of a long-unsolved murder that shaped the golden age of rap music. Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 63, found guilty of first-degree murder in August, received the penalty during a hearing in a Las Vegas courtroom.
Until Davis’ 2023 arrest, the killing of Shakur, shot dead in the passenger seat of an SUV driven by... ‘You don’t get to take a man from his family … and just walk away from it,’ judge says as former gang leader sentencedTupac trial spotlights decades of US police failures in solving the caseDuane “Keffe D” Davis, the former California gang leader convicted of murder for orchestrating the 1996 fatal shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur, has been sentenced to 40 years to life in prison.“For three years, I’ve heard you say some variation of the same thing … ‘Yeah, I was involved in this. I’m a grandfather now,’” Judge Carli Kierny said Tuesday as she delivered the sentence.
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