Duane “Keefe D” Davis is not backing down.
Months after his arrest in September 2023, he’s claiming he didn’t kill Tupac Shakur.
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“I’m innocent,” Davis told ABC News. “I did not do it. They don’t have nothing. And they know they don’t have nothing. They can’t even place me out here. They don’t have no gun, no car, no Keffe D, no nothing.”
Prosecutors claim Davis, 61, was a high-ranking member of the Compton Crips and the “shot caller” who orchestrated the drive-by shooting that killed Tupac as the rapper was leaving a Mike Tyson fight in Las Vegas with Suge Knight. The case remained unsolved for nearly three decades, but authorities ultimately built their case using Davis’ own past confessions, which were made in multiple police interviews, media appearances, and his 2019 memoir Compton Street Legend.
Now, Davis is walking back those statements. He insists that he never read his own book and that his co-author took creative liberties with the story. He also claims that on the night of Tupac’s murder, he was not in Las Vegas but instead in Los Angeles, and he says he has 20 to 30 witnesses who will corroborate his alibi.
Despite previously detailing his involvement in the shooting across multiple platforms, Davis now alleges that his past confessions were motivated by money and pressure from law enforcement. He claims he only told authorities what they wanted to hear in 2008, when he first confessed in an attempt to avoid prison time in a drug case.
“They paid me to say that,” Davis told ABC. “That’s the only way you’re walking free. It would’ve been selfish to let everybody go down because of me.”
Davis is also shifting blame toward Reggie Wright Jr., the former head of Death Row Records’ security team, who was in charge of overseeing Suge Knight and Tupac’s safety the night of the shooting. He claims Wright and his security team were the real orchestrators of the attack but did not provide evidence to support his accusations.
Wright has denied any involvement in Tupac’s killing and dismissed Davis’ claims as an act of desperation. “Keffe D confessed to Tupac’s murder to LAPD in 2008, to Las Vegas Metro PD in 2009, and then publicly from 2018 to 2023,” Wright said. “He’s only using the media to slander me now because he finally got arrested and has no other defense.”
Davis has remained behind bars since his arrest outside his home in September 2023 after multiple failed attempts to make bail. He now faces an additional charge stemming from a jailhouse fight with another inmate, with that trial set for April.
Still, Davis remains confident that he will walk free, saying, “God got my back, and God will see me through this. He had my back with cancer, I survived the streets, and the FBI. That’s a big accomplishment for a man from Compton.”
Is Davis really the mastermind behind Tupac’s murder, or is he just another fall guy in hip-hop’s most infamous cold case?
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