Las Vegas Police Find .40-Caliber Bullets At Keefe D’s Home During Search In Tupac Murder Investigation

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Ex-gang leader's account of Tupac Shakur killing is fiction, defense lawyer in Vegas says​

The defense attorney representing a former Los Angeles-area gang leader accused of killing music legend Tupac Shakur in 1996 in Las Vegas says his client’s accounts of the killing are fiction
ByKEN RITTER Associated Press
April 23, 2024, 3:16 PM




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LAS VEGAS -- The defense attorney representing a former Los Angeles-area gang leader accused of killing hip-hop music icon Tupac Shakur in 1996 in Las Vegas said Tuesday his client's accounts of the killing are fiction and prosecutors lack key evidence to obtain a murder conviction.
"He himself is giving different stories," attorney Carl Arnold told reporters outside a courtroom following a brief status check with his client, Duane “Keffe D” Davis, in front of a Nevada judge. His trial is scheduled for Nov. 4.
“We haven’t seen more than just his word,” Arnold said of Davis' police and media interviews since 2008 in which prosecutors say he incriminated himself in Shakur's killing — including Davis' 2019 tell-all memoir of life leading a street gang in Compton, California.
Prosecutor Binu Palal did not immediately comment outside court about Arnold's statements. Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson has said evidence against Davis is strong and it will be up to a jury to decide the credibility of Davis' accounts.
Arnold said his client wanted to make money with his story, so he embellished or outright lied about his involvement in the car-to-car shooting that killed Shakur and wounded rap music mogul Marion “Suge” Knight at a traffic signal near the Las Vegas Strip in September 1996.

Knight, now 59, is serving 28 years in a California prison for killing a Compton businessman with a vehicle in 2015. He was not called by prosecutors to testify before the grand jury that indicted Davis last year.
Arnold said Davis will not testify at trial, but he intends to call Knight to testify. The defense attorney said police and prosecutors lack proof that Davis was in Las Vegas at the time of Shakur's killing, and don’t have the gun and car used during the shooting as evidence.
“We’ve seen video of everybody else here. Where’s video of him?" Arnold said of Davis. "There’s just nothing saying that he was here.”
Davis has been jailed on $750,000 bail since his arrest in September. Arnold said Tuesday that Davis has been unable to raise the 10% needed to obtain a bond to be released to house arrest.

Davis, 60, is originally from Compton. Police, prosecutors and Davis say he is the only person still alive who was in the car from which shots were fired.

Davis pleaded not guilty in November to first-degree murder. If convicted, he could spend the rest of his life in prison.
In his book, Davis wrote that he was promised immunity from prosecution when he told authorities in Los Angeles what he knew about the fatal shootings of Shakur and rival rapper Christopher Wallace six months later in Los Angeles. Wallace was known as The Notorious B.I.G. or Biggie Smalls.
Shakur had five No. 1 albums, was nominated for six Grammy Awards and was inducted in 2017 into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. He received a posthumous star last year on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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This story has been updated to correct that Marion “Suge” Knight is in prison for killing someone with a vehicle, not a fatal shooting.
 

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Man when you are old and can't fight and looking at a life sentence in jail, you may as well get as fat, sloppy, and stink as possible as your last line of defense from Bubba.
 

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Man when you are old and can't fight and looking at a life sentence in jail, you may as well get as fat, sloppy, and stink as possible as your last line of defense from Bubba.

He's on no danger of being raped.

But for some people Tupac has literally become god like and he's going to run into a lot of them of all ages in those prisons and they're going to be on his head.

Can you imagine the props someone doing life or who's already heavy in the streets would get for taking out one of Tupacs killers.
 

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He's on no danger of being raped.

But for some people Tupac has literally become god like and he's going to run into a lot of them of all ages in those prisons and they're going to be on his head.

Can you imagine the props someone doing life or who's already heavy in the streets would get for taking out one of Tupacs killers.
Chances are chasing for props is what landed them in jail in the first place.
 

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