The man charged with manslaughter in the death of Tupac Shakur 27 years ago made his first court appearance in Las Vegas on Wednesday.
Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 60, walked into the courtroom wearing a dark blue prison outfit and with a slight limp as he faced the judge. During the hearing he said he had a lawyer, meaning his case could continue.
After a brief hearing he was sent back to the Clark County Detention Center, where sources told The Post Davis is being kept away from other inmates and has been placed in a medical unit.
“They didn’t want anyone to interact with him … clearly they were worried he would be beaten,” the source said. “He must be controlled. Other prisoners are not allowed to approach where he is being held.”
A Nevada grand jury indicted Davis on murder with a deadly weapon along with gang enhancements during the 1996 drive-by shooting of the “All Eyez On Me” rapper on the Las Vegas strip.
Duane “Keffe D” Davis was brought into the courtroom at the Regional Justice Center on Wednesday, Oct. 4. 2023, in Las Vegas. Davis was charged in the 1996 drive-by shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur. APTupac was gunned down on the Vegas Strip in 1996.AP
After a court hearing Wednesday, Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson told reporters Davis — a self-confessed member of the South Side Compton Crips gang — will remain in jail until his next court appearance.
“The evidence is clear and the presumption is that he will be convicted of first-degree murder, which allows us to request a no-bail setting,” Wolfson said.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police served a search warrant in July at the Henderson, Nevada home of Davis’ wife, Pamela Clemons, as part of the investigation.
The car in which rapper Tupac Shakur was fatally shot by an unidentified gunman in 1996. LIFE/Getty Photo CollectionDuane “Keffe D” Davis was arrested early Friday and charged with conspiracy to commit murder.Getty Images
Investigators seized several computers, laptops and iPads from the home, as well as .40 caliber cartridges, according to a search warrant obtained by The Post.
Shakur’s death has remained unsolved since he was shot to death on September 7, 1996 by someone in a white Cadillac.
Davis wrote in his memoir “Compton Street Legend” that his nephew Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson was the one who killed Shakur from the back seat of the car.
However, Chief Deputy District Attorney Marc DiGiacomo said Davis was the crew’s “commander on the ground” and “caller of shots” and that he “ordered the death” of Shakur, rather than being a mere bystander.
Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson speaks during a news conference about the charges in the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur.AP
Anderson has always denied that he pulled the trigger. He died in 1998 in another gang shooting. Two other men in the car, Terrence Brown and DeAndre Smith are also now dead.
In his book, Davis wrote that he agreed to talk to local authorities and the FBI about the shooting in exchange for them dropping drug charges in a federal case in which he faces up to life in prison.
Greg Kading, a retired Los Angeles Police detective who spent years investigating Shakur’s murder, told The Post Davis’ deal does not cover interviews he has since given and his book, in which he readily admits to having obtained a gun and being at the scene. event. .
“Everything he said outside of that original offer was not protected, so everything he said publicly was self-incriminating evidence,” Kading told The Post.
Tupac was 25 years old at the time of the shooting.AP
Davis said he was in the Cadillac during the rap drive and Death Row Records CEO Marion “Suge” Knight, who was driving the car the rapper was in.
“When we pulled up, I was in the front seat,” Davis revealed in a 2018 BET interview.”Met my friend, Suge.”
“You said the shots came from behind,” the interviewer asked Davis. “Who shot Tupac?”
“Will save it for street code,” Davis said. “It just came from the back seat, bro.”
Nevada has no statute of limitations on homicide prosecutions.
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