It took the jury less than three hours. A cold case spanning nearly 30 years reached a swift conclusion in a Las Vegas courtroom—on August 31, 2026, 63-year-old Duane "Keefe D" Davis was found guilty of first-degree murder, with the timing landing almost exactly on the eve of the 30th anniversary of Tupac Shakur's fatal shooting on September 7, 1996.
Ironically, what largely sealed Davis's conviction were his own repeated words over the years. He never pulled the trigger himself, but he'd publicly claimed multiple times that he was in the car that night and that he was the one who supplied the gun used to kill Tupac. Once he was actually indicted and standing trial, Davis pleaded not guilty, arguing those statements were just exaggerations made to cash in.
Prosecutors told a completely different story. They alleged Davis was a leading figure in the Southside Compton Crips gang and that he was the one who organized the four men in that car, driven by revenge—Tupac had beaten up Davis's nephew in a casino earlier that same day the shooting happened.
The person prosecutors widely believe actually pulled the trigger was Davis's nephew, Orlando Anderson, but Anderson himself died in a separate shootout roughly nine months after the incident. In the end, of the four men in that car, Davis was the only one left alive.
After the verdict was announced, prosecutors declined to comment further when asked by AP News. The Shakur family said they'll hold off on commenting about the case until sentencing comes down on October 13. Nevada prosecutors chose not to pursue the death penalty in this case, but Davis is now facing life in prison.
