Tupac Shakur’s stepbrother Maurice has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Duane “Keffe D” Davis and 99 unnamed co-conspirators. Davis is the only person ever charged in connection with the 1996 murder of the rapper.
According to the lawsuit, the Netflix documentary Sean Combs: The Reckoning and grand jury transcripts have produced fresh clues that link more individuals to the murder of Tupac Shakur. It claims there was a “complex conspiracy to murder Tupac that involved much more than mere retaliation for a prior altercation.”
“Many individuals who were involved have long since passed way, while others have been hard to identify,” reads the lawsuit, a copy of which was obtained by Rolling Stone. “Yet, one thing is certain: there remain individuals who were involved in Tupac’s murder who, for 30 years, have not been held accountable for their crimes. This action seeks to change that and to recover damages for the wrongful death of Tupac.”
As for the 99 unnamed co-conspirators, the lawsuit states, “While the investigation and public record have revealed the names of certain individuals who may have participated in or facilitated the murder,” reads the complaint, “the specific nature and extent of each individual’s involvement – and the identities of additional individuals who may have participated in planning, financing, directing, or carrying out the conspiracy – remain unknown.”
Police arrested Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis in 2023 for the murder of Tupac Shakur
Prosecutors expect the criminal trial of Duane “Keffe D” Davis to take place later this summer in Las Vegas. Authorities arrested Davis on one count of murder with a deadly weapon in September of 2023, more than 27 years after someone shot and killed Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas.
Davis admitted in 2018 that he was a passenger in the car carrying the person who shot the rapper. He has also 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.”
He would later claim that he is innocent and wasn’t even in Las Vegas at the time of the murder, despite making previous statements to the contrary, including 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.