Keffe D Goes on Trial Over Tupac’s 1996 Murder

Three decades after Tupac Shakur’s death, Duane Keffe D Davis, former leader of the South Side Crips, goes on trial in Las Vegas for allegedly orchestrating the rapper’s 1996 killing by supplying the gun, though he didn’t fire it. The case hinges on Davis’s own memoir Compton Street Legend and related interviews, which prosecutors say corroborate a planned retaliation after a nightclub fight involving Davis’s nephew. The four-to-six-week trial is expected to feature 35–45 witnesses and may involve testimony from people connected to Tupac and Davis, with Knight potentially appearing as a witness despite serving a separate prison sentence. The gun and car used in the drive-by were never recovered, and Davis has been jailed since 2023 awaiting the case’s outcome.