Duane "Keefe Dee" Davis was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison for masterminding the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas
Duane "Keefe Dee" Davis was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison prison because of its role in organizing murders of American rapper Tupac Shakur, who died in September 1996, after being shot six days earlier in Las Vegas, the Associated Press reports.
Davis, a former member and leader of the Southside Compton Crips, is the only person charged with Shakur's murder. The sentence was handed down by Judge Carly Kearney, and it included the 731 days he spent in custody.
The prosecution did not claim that Davis personally shot the rapper, but that he organized the attack out of revenge. The conflict occurred after a fight at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, involving Shakur and members of his entourage, as well as Orlando Anderson, Davis' cousin.
On September 7, 1996, Shakur was shot four times while driving a car near the Las Vegas Strip. He died six days later, at the age of 25.
Davis, who is 63, waived his right to be sentenced by a jury after being found guilty Aug. 31 of first-degree murder. The jury needed less than three hours of deliberation to reach its verdict.
The case remained unsolved for decades. The weapon with which the murder was committed was never found, while numerous witnesses avoided talking about the event, partly because of the unwritten code of silence among street gang members.
Among the key evidence against Davis were his statements from interviews, documentaries and podcasts, as well as a memoir he published in 2019 titled "Compton Street Legend."
In the book, he presented his version of events and claimed that he was one of the few living witnesses who knew the wider background to the murders of Tupac Shakur and rapper Christopher Wallace, known as the Notorious BIG, who was killed in Los Angeles in March 1997.
Shakur's murder became one of the most famous unsolved cases in the history of the American music scene, and was associated with conflicts between rappers and their entourage during the nineties.
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