Almost two years after Duane “Keefe D” Davis was arrested after being indicted for the September 1996 homicide of Tupac Shakur, the 61-year-old is lastly talking out. Though he’s being charged for the homicide of the hip-hop legend, he says that he performed no half in his deadly capturing.
In a jailhouse interview with ABC Information, Keefe D was lastly capable of defend himself and denies any involvement within the drive-by capturing of Shakur almost 30 years in the past.
“I’m harmless,” stated Davis. “I ain’t kill no person. By no means killed no person. They don’t don’t have any proof towards me. Show that I orchestrated this. You’re key witness orchestrated this. Their high witness is the lead suspect.”
Davis refers to Reggie Wright Jr., a former Los Angeles police officer who labored as a safety guard for Suge Knight and different members of Demise Row Data within the mid-Nineteen Nineties. Wright’s authentic testimony in court docket led to Davis’ indictment.
Davis later provides that he’s cooperated with authorities over time: “I did every thing they requested me to do. Get new buddies. Cease promoting medicine. I finished all that. I’m alleged to be on the market having fun with my twilight at certainly one of my f***ing grandson’s soccer video games, and basketball video games. Having fun with life with my children.”
One of many essential issues working towards Davis is that he went on document in a number of interviews confessing to being concerned in Shakur’s homicide.
In 2008, he additionally allegedly confessed to the homicide as part of a “proffer settlement,” that means that something he informed investigators on the time couldn’t be used towards him in court docket, in line with ABC Information.
Authorities referred to the 2019 e book, “Compton Avenue Legend,” a memoir the place Davis allegedly recounts the murders of each Tupac and Infamous B.I.G. Though he’s credited as a co-author, Davis stated he simply did it for the cash.
“I’ve by no means learn the e book,” stated Davis. “I simply gave him [Yusuf Jah] particulars of my life. And he went and did his little investigation and wrote the e book on his personal.”
Though prosecutors are assured that Davis can be convicted, the person himself says he has witnesses of his personal that corroborate his whereabouts the night time of capturing. He allegedly has “20 or 30 individuals” coming to the trial to say that he was in Los Angeles, not Las Vegas, the night time of the capturing.
The homicide trial is scheduled for February 2026.