The former street gang leader accused of masterminding the 1996 slaying of Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas is expected to plead not guilty Thursday to murder charges, amid questions about whether he will hire a lawyer or a judge will appoint a public defender.
Duane Keith “Keffe D” Davis, described as the only person alive who was in the vehicle where shots were fired that night, killing Shakur, is expected to stand trial in Nevada despite losing a bid to hire local defense attorney Ross Goodman.
Goodman spoke for Davis outside court two weeks ago, saying prosecutors lacked key evidence and witnesses to the 27-year-old murder.
Duane Keith “Keffe D” Davis should stand trial in Nevada despite losing bid to hire local defense attorney Ross Goodman.AP
The attorney did not give a reason Wednesday why Davis could not hire him.
Davis, 60, is from Compton, California.
He was arrested Sept. 29 outside a home in suburban Henderson where Las Vegas police served a search warrant on July 17, drawing renewed attention to the unsolved murder of one of hip-hop’s most enduring icons.
Duane ‘Keefe D’ Davis is seen bragging about the biggest case in Las Vegas history in shocking body camera footage. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police This photo provided by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department shows the bloodied driver’s seat occupied by Marion “Suge” Knight in the car rapper Tupac Shakur was gunned down in September 1996.AP
His indictment alleges Davis handed a gun to someone in a Cadillac from which a car-to-car shooting left Shakur injured and rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight at an intersection not far from the Las Vegas Strip.
Shakur died a week later at the age of 25.
Knight is now 58 and is serving a 28-year prison sentence in California for the 2015 death of a Compton businessman.
Tupac was killed in a drive-by shooting he attended and was involved with Duane ‘Keefe D’ Davis. Getty Images, The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty
Prosecutors allege that Shakur’s killing in Las Vegas was the result of a fierce rivalry between East Coast and West Coast gangs for dominance in a genre of music later dubbed “gangsta rap”, and followed a fight at a Las Vegas Strip casino involving Shakur and Davis’ nephews. , Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson.
Prosecutors told a grand jury that Davis implicated himself in the killings in several interviews and a 2019 memoir that described his life leading the Crips sect in Compton.
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