Duane Davis, Charged With Organizing the Killing of Tupac Shakur, is on Trial

UNITED STATES – The man who prosecutors say orchestrated the 1996 killing of rap icon Tupac Shakur is scheduled to go to trial Monday, almost 30 years after the fatal drive-by shooting in Las Vegas.

Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 63, faces a single count of murder with a deadly weapon with the intent to promote, further or assist a criminal gang in Shakur’s death.

He’s been jailed since late 2023 and has pleaded not guilty.

The trial, which is expected to last about a month, likely won’t reveal who pulled the trigger. Instead, prosecutors hope to prove that Davis was the shot-caller and provided the weapon.

Prosecutors say if Davis hadn’t written explicitly about the killing or talked about it in interviews, it’s likely no one would have been charged.