Keffe D Guilty in Tupac Shakur Murder
Keffe D Guilty in Tupac Shakur Murder
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Guilty, after less than three hours
A Las Vegas jury on Monday found Duane "Keffe D" Davis, 63, guilty of first-degree murder with use of a deadly weapon in the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur, according to NBC News, Reuters, The Guardian and France 24.
What prosecutors argued
Prosecutors told jurors that Davis, a former leader of the South Side Compton Crips, orchestrated the drive-by but did not pull the trigger himself, according to The Guardian and CTV News.
The case leaned heavily on Davis's own repeated public accounts of the shooting rather than physical evidence.
Timeline
Jurors deliberated less than three hours before returning the verdict, France 24 and Deutsche Welle reported. The Sun reported the trial ran about two weeks.
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What the defense argued
Defense attorney Michael Sanft argued that those public admissions were self-promotional exaggeration and did not amount to proof that Davis planned the killing.
The jury rejected that argument.
What's Next
What happens next
Sentencing is still ahead. The reports available Monday night did not give a sentencing date, and no sentence has been imposed.
More
It is the first conviction in a killing that went unsolved for close to three decades. Shakur was gunned down in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in 1996, roughly 30 years before the verdict, the Hollywood Reporter and the New York Post noted.
Davis is the only person ever charged over Shakur's death, The Sun reported. The verdict closes the last open criminal case in a killing that has been argued over by hip-hop fans, investigators and journalists since 1996.
Sources: NBC News, Reuters, The Guardian, France 24, Deutsche Welle, CTV News, Rolling Stone, Hollywood Reporter, New York Post, Daily Mail, The Sun, TMZ.
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