Former Gang Leader Pleads Not Guilty to the 1996 Murder of Tupac Shakur

Duane Keith “Keffe D” Davis, a former Southern California street gang leader, pleaded not guilty Thursday to murder in the 1996 killing of rap music icon Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas — a charge prompted by his own descriptions in recent years about orchestrating the deadly drive-by shooting.

Davis is the only person still alive who was in the vehicle from which shots were fired and the only person ever charged with a crime in the case.

Prosecutors allege that Shakur’s killing in Las Vegas came out of competition between East Coast members of a Bloods gang sect and West Coast groups of a Crips sect, including Davis, for dominance in a musical genre dubbed “gangsta rap.”

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