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Duane “Keffe D” Davis, the only person ever charged in connection with the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur, gave his first interview to the media this week since he was arrested in 2023. Unsurprisingly, he claims he is innocent and had nothing to do with the shooting. Prosecutors, on the other hand, disagree.
Davis, 61, was arrested on one count of murder with a deadly weapon in September of 2023, more than 27 years since Tupac Shakur was shot and killed in Las Vegas, after admitting in 2018 that he was a passenger in the car carrying the person who shot the rapper. His nephew, Orlando Anderson, once a prime suspect in the murder, but was was shot and killed in 1998, was also in the vehicle, according to Davis.
At the time of his arrest, Chief Deputy District Attorney Marc DiGiacomo claimed Davis was the “on-ground, on-site commander” who “ordered the death” of Tupac Shakur. Last year, retired Los Angeles Police Department detective Greg Kading claimed Sean Combs, AKA Diddy, instructed “Keffe D” to assassinate both Tupac and Suge Knight and even offered him a bounty of $1 million for each killing.
In July of 2024, court documents revealed “Keffe D” worked undercover with the police to try and tie Sean “Diddy” Combs to Shakur’s death.
Now making his home in the Clark County Detention Center in Nevada, Duane “Keffe D” Davis claims he is innocent.
“I did everything they asked me to do,” he told ABC News. “Get new friends. Stop selling drugs. I stopped all that,” he said, referring to police and prosecutors. “I’m supposed to be out there enjoying my twilight at one of my f—— grandson’s football games, and basketball games. Enjoying life with my kids.”
Perhaps the biggest reason why Davis was arrested, almost 30 years after Tupac’s murder is because of his own stories. Davis made numerous media appearances talking about the crime and even self-published a memoir with the tagline “The last living eyewitness to Tupac’s murder is telling his story.”
Davis, in the interview with ABC News, claimed he has never read the memoir. “I just gave him details of my life,” Davis said. “And he went and did his little investigation and wrote the book on his own.”
He also claimed he wasn’t even in Las Vegas, despite his previous statements, including those to police in 2008 and 2009 and in a 2018 docuseries. Now he says he was hundreds of miles away, at home in Los Angeles, at the time of the murder.
“They don’t have nothing,” he said about the prosecutors. “And they know they don’t have nothing. They can’t even place me out here. They don’t have no gun, no car, no Keffe D, no nothing.”