Tupac Murder Trial: Jurors Hear ‘Secret’ Police Interview with Keffe D Admitting Role in Shooting

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Tupac Murder Trial: Jurors Hear ‘Secret’ Police Interview with Keffe D Admitting Role in Shooting

Rolling Stone · 2 hours ago

Jurors in the murder trial of Duane "Keffe D" Davis were shown a recorded 2008 police interview in which Davis appears to admit involvement in the 1996 drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas. The recording, played on the fourth day of the trial, is central to the prosecution's case, as Davis gave the account while seeking to avoid a possible life sentence on unrelated drug charges, telling detectives "don't bullshit me, and I won't bullshit you all."

In the interview, Davis described being in the front passenger seat of a rented white Cadillac that pulled up beside Suge Knight's BMW, in which Shakur was a passenger, at a red light near the Las Vegas Strip on 7 September 1996. He said he passed a gun to the back seat, where his nephew Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson ultimately grabbed it and fired after fellow gang member DeAndre "Dre" Smith hesitated. Earlier testimony from former LAPD detectives Daryn Dupree and Greg Kading detailed how they approached Davis in 2008 during an unrelated investigation into the Notorious B.I.G.'s murder, using evidence of his alleged drug dealing to press him, at which point he reportedly said "we did the other one," referring to Tupac.

  • Jurors heard Davis's 2008 recorded confession-like account of Tupac's 1996 murder.
  • Davis said he passed the gun that his nephew used to shoot Shakur.
  • Police leveraged drug-dealing evidence to get Davis talking in 2008.

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