Man Who Orchestrated Tupac Shakur Murder Sentenced to 40 Years to Life in Prison

Duane “Keffe D” Davis has been sentenced to 40 years to life in prison for his role in orchestrating the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur.Ahead of sentencing, Shakur’s sister, Sekyiwa, gave an emotional statement to the court about her late brother’s murder. “The loss of Tupac crippled my family emotionally,” she said, adding that “he dedicated his career to the advancement of his people, he was gently kind to women and children, he fed anyone he knew that didn’t have, he was truly my shining star.”“Pac didn’t have a chance to have kids, he didn’t have a chance to see his nieces and nephews grow up” added Shakur’s brother, Mopreme Shakur, in a separate statement. “All Pac got was a death sentence.”In 2023, Davis was arrested after admitting in his 2019 memoir Compton Street Legend and in earlier interviews that he was in the car when Shakur was gunned down, but was not the one to pull the trigger. He also repeatedly claimed the shooting was organized as retaliation for the rapper’s entourage attacking Davis’ nephew Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson at an MGM Grand boxing match in Las Vegas earlier that night—itself a retaliation for a fight in Los Angeles that year involving Anderson ...