Attorney Who Represented Only Person Convicted In Tupac Shakur’s Murder Found Dead

Michael Sanft, the Las Vegas lawyer who represented Duane “Keffe D” Davis, has reportedly been found dead, according to sources cited by local investigators. The report did not give a date or location, and no further details about his death were provided. Sanft had planned to appeal Davis’s conviction, making his reported death significant to the next steps in the case.

Davis was convicted in August 2025 of orchestrating Tupac Shakur’s 1996 murder and supplying the weapon, and was sentenced in October to 13 to 40 years in prison. He is the only person convicted in connection with the killing. Sanft had challenged the police investigation as flawed; he was a long-time Las Vegas attorney who studied law at Brigham Young University and had worked with his firm since 2024.