A Nevada judge ruled Tuesday that a taped interview with a man accused of killing Tupac Shakur Information handed over to police in 2008 may be used in an upcoming trial.Judge Carli Kierny found Duane “Keffe D” Davis eligible for interviews in his trial, which is scheduled to begin Aug. 12. 10.Davis, 63, is charged with murder in the 1996 slaying of Shakur and faces life in prison without the possibility of parole if convicted.
about Tupac Shakur Death Case
The rapper’s death is considered one of the most notorious unsolved murders in the United States. Shakur was killed in Las Vegas on September 7, 1996. He and Death Row Records founder Marion “Suge” Knight were waiting at a red light when a white Cadillac pulled up next to them near the Las Vegas Strip and shots rang out. Shakur was shot multiple times and died six days later. Knight survived with only minor injuries.Three other people belonging to Davis were in the Cadillac, including his nephew, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, but Davis was the only one still alive. No one else was charged in Shakur’s killing before his death.
Duane “Keffe D” Davis’ book draws attention
The case remained cold until Davis began making public statements about it, including in a book he co-authored, in which he said he was in the Cadillac and provided the weapon used to shoot Shakur.Defense attorney Michael Sanft argued that a 2008 interview Davis gave to law enforcement should have been confidential and that detectives explicitly told him the interview should not be used against him.
Interview aired on Sean Combs: The Reckoning
Prosecutors argued there was no reason to exclude the interview from the trial, which is expected to last about four weeks.The interview was used in former LAPD detective Greg Kading’s book “Murder Rap: The Untold Story of the Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur Murder Investigations.” Portions of that recording have also been shown in documentaries, including the recent Sean Combs: The Reckoning .
Details revealed in Davis’ memoir
Davis said in his memoir that he obtained a handgun from a co-worker and threw it into the back seat of his Cadillac, but did not reveal who fired the fatal shot.In the 2008 interview, Davis described how he and his team saw Shakur and pulled up next to them that night, saying Anderson “knocked them over.” Anderson denied involvement in Shakur’s killing at the time and died two years later in an unrelated gang shooting in Compton, California.