Duane Davis

Duane Davis, also known as Keffe D, is a criminal defendant who was convicted in connection with the September 1996 drive-by shooting murder of hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas.

During his high-profile homicide trial, courtroom proceedings included evidence from an authentic 2008 recorded police interview. In that audio tape, Davis gave law enforcement detectives an insider account of the events surrounding the ambush and claimed that his late nephew was the person who actually fired the fatal shots. Following the verdict convicting Davis of murder, defense attorney Michael Sanft publicly announced plans to challenge the court ruling through a formal legal appeal.

Reports indicate that while awaiting trial in pre-trial detention, Davis accumulated a long string of severe institutional disciplinary write-ups, keeping corrections staff on high alert. Among the laundry list of allegations logged by jail officers were multiple disruptive infractions that specifically involved violent incidents inside the detention facility. The legal developments in Davis's case brought long-awaited court accountability to a drive-by killing that remained unsolved for more than twenty-seven years.