Tupac Shakur’s Murder Suspect Duane “Keffe D” Davis Pleads Not Guilty

LAS VEGAS – The suspect in rapper Tupac Shakur’s 1996 killing has pleaded not guilty.

Duane “Keffe D” Davis appeared in court at the Cark County District in Las Vegas Thursday.

A public defender has been assigned to Davis’s case along with attorneys Charles Cano and Robert Arroyo, after his former lawyer Ross Goodman announced last month that he would no longer be representing Davis, citing failure to reach an agreement between the two, KLAS reported.

Davis was arrested and charged on Sept. 29, in Tupac’s murder.

According to authorities, he’s the only suspect in the case that is alive.

Davis, 60, has been charged with one count of murder with a gang enhancement.

Davis admitted in a book he co-wrote titled “Compton Street Legends” in 2019 that he is one of three “living eyewitnesses” to Shakur’s murder.

He also has bragged about being in the vehicle with the suspect/suspects who killed Tupac in the drive-by shooting in multiple interviews, incriminating himself.

Tupac, 25, was shot four times in a drive-by shooting on the Las Vegas strip in 1996, as he was riding in a vehicle with Death Row Records owner Suge Knight, who was also shot, but survived.

Tupac died from his injuries.

Davis has also said in interviews that Bad Boy Records owner Diddy Combs allegedly asked him to murder Tupac for a large sum of money.

Photo credit: Ethan Miller/Getty, Mitchell Gerber/Corbis/VCG via Getty Duane “Keefe D” Davis (L), Tupac Shakur (R)