Duane “Keff D” Davis has been sentenced to 40 years to life for the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur after his first-degree murder conviction in Las Vegas.
01Summary
- 01Duane “Keff D” Davis was sentenced on Tuesday in Las Vegas to 40 years to life in prison.
- 02He was convicted on 31 August of first-degree murder with the use of a deadly weapon.
- 03Judge Carli Kierny told Davis that he does not get to take a man from his family or future, especially when that man was Tupac Shakur.
- 04Shakur was shot after the 7 September 1996 Mike Tyson fight at the MGM Grand and died in hospital six days later.
- 05Davis has said since his 2023 arrest that he was not guilty and plans to appeal the case.
02Why it matters
The sentence closes one of hip hop’s most enduring murder cases and formalises the only charge ever brought in Shakur’s fatal shooting. It also renews public focus on a case that shaped music history and legal scrutiny around the West Coast/East Coast rap feud.
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