First appearance for gang leader accused of Tupac murder

2023-10-04 23:47:26

He showed up in a blue prison outfit, handcuffed. A former gang leader accused of the murder 27 years ago of hip-hop star Tupac Shakur appeared Wednesday for the first time in American justice.

Las Vegas police arrested Duane “Keffe D” Davis, a former leader of the South Side Compton Crips, a Los Angeles gang, on Friday and charged him with the murder of Tupac Shakur in 1996 in this Nevada metropolis (west). . Duane “Keffe D” Davis was arraigned Wednesday in local court, according to the Las Vegas Review Journal, the gambling capital’s leading news outlet.

Now 60 years old, Duane Davis had long admitted that he was in the white Cadillac from which the four bullets were fired that killed Tupac Shakur, at the age of 25. In a book published in 2019, the person concerned, however, assured that the shots had been fired from the rear of the vehicle while he was in the front. He is the only one still alive of the four people that law enforcement identified in this vehicle.

Duane Davis “was the mastermind behind this group of individuals who committed this crime and he orchestrated the plan that was implemented” to carry it out, Lieutenant Jason Johansson, of the Las. police, argued last week. Vegas. According to the laws in force in Nevada, this indirect role does not prevent his indictment for murder.

Duane Davis wanted revenge on Tupac

On September 7, 1996, Tupac Shakur, known for the hits “Dear Mama”, “California Love” and “Changes”, attended a Mike Tyson boxing fight, in the company of Suge Knight, founder of his label Death Row and affiliate to the Mob Piru gang in Los Angeles, several members of which were also present.

But Mob Piru was an enemy gang of the South Side Compton Crips, then led by Duane Davis. After the fight, members of Death Row Records spotted and beat Duane Davis’ nephew, Orlando Anderson.

According to Las Vegas police, it was in the wake of this incident that Duane Davis began developing a plan to take revenge on Suge Knight and Tupac Shakur. He is accused of having provided a weapon to the passengers who were in the back of the car from where fire was opened on the rap star.