On Wednesday, October 4, the first appearance of Duane “Keffe D” Davis, former member of the Compton Crips gang, indicted since the end of September for the murder of Tupac Shakur, was held in Las Vegas. According to CBS, this sixty-year-old native of Watts, California, grew up in the suburbs of Los Angeles with his 11 brothers and sisters amid stories of gangs and drugs. A very turbulent adolescence, which took him to prison between 1985 and 1989, as he recounts in his autobiography published in 2019 Compton Street Legend. It is in this same work that he publicly declared that he was the driver of the white Cadillac from which four shots were fired in the direction of Tupac Shakur, who succumbed to his wounds in the evening.
“The next few seconds passed so quickly,” writes Duane Davis in an excerpt from his autobiography reported by the Los Angeles Times. “The fireworks have started. One of my guys in the back grabbed the gun and started shooting.” In question ? A story of revenge between rival gangs. According to the Los Angeles police, the star rapper of the 90s had attacked that evening a certain Orlando Anderson, known as Baby Lane, nephew of Duane “Keffe D” Davis, both members of the Compton Crips, a rival gang of by Tupac.
It was in the middle of summer that the murder case of the American rap legend made the news again. According to CNN, a search took place at the home of Duane Davis’ wife in Henderson, Nevada, after new evidence led to charges against him.
He had, according to the American media, already confessed to his participation in the murder in 2009, but had benefited from a protection agreement from the police, who undertook not to use this information against him. It took almost three decades for the Las Vegas police to gather enough evidence to send Duane “Keffe D” Davis to justice.
