NewzDuane ‘Keffe D’ Davis was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison over the 1996 murder of rap icon Tupac Shakur. Duane "Keffe D" Davis was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison Tuesday in Las Vegas for the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur. Davis, 63, was convicted in August of first-degree murder with the use of a deadly weapon.
He is the only person ever charged in the death of Shakur, whose popularity was peaking at age 25. The killing, rooted in a long-running gang feud, had gone unsolved for decades — captivating the public and tormenting Shakur’s loved ones — until Duane “Keffe D” Davis started bragging about it in interviews and a memoir. Duane 'Keffe D' Davis was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison for orchestrating the murder of Tupac Shakur who was gunned down off the Las Vegas Strip over 30 years ago.
Davis is the first and only person to have been convicted over the death of the late hip-hop icon. Jurors convicted Davis of first-degree murder with a deadly weapon in late August. Duane "Keffe D" Davis has been sentenced to 40 years to life in prison for the murder of rap icon Tupac Shakur.
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