Former gang leader Duane "Keffe D" Davis has been found guilty of murder over the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur, delivering the first conviction in a case that had baffled investigators and fascinated hip-hop fans for nearly three decades. A Las Vegas jury convicted the 63-year-old of one count of murder with a deadly weapon after prosecutors argued that although he did not fire the fatal shots himself, he ordered the drive-by shooting and supplied the gun used by his nephew, Orlando Anderson, who died in 1998 and always denied involvement.

Shakur, one of the most influential figures in rap and a seller of more than 75 million records, was 25 when he was shot in Las Vegas on 7 September 1996 amid fierce East Coast-West Coast rap rivalries and gang tensions. The prosecution's case rested heavily on Davis's own admissions, made in a 2008 police interview, his 2019 memoir and various media appearances, in which he repeatedly acknowledged being in the car from which the shots were fired; his lawyers had argued these were exaggerations made to sell books, but jurors reached their guilty verdict within hours. Davis said he intends to appeal.