Duane Davis sentenced to 40 years to life for Tupac Shakur’s murder
The sentence follows Davis’s September conviction in the 1996 Las Vegas killing. He has said he will appeal the verdict.
Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis was sentenced on 13 October 2026 to 40 years to life in prison for orchestrating the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas, the BBC and the Guardian reported.
Davis’s conviction and planned appeal
A jury found Davis guilty of murder with a deadly weapon in September. He is the only person convicted in connection with Shakur’s killing, according to the Guardian. Shakur was shot in Las Vegas on 7 September 1996 and died days later.
Prosecutors relied in part on Davis’s accounts of his role, including statements in a 2008 police interview and a 2019 memoir. His defense argued that those accounts were embellished. Davis has said he will appeal the verdict; the reports do not establish that an appeal has been filed.
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- Duane "Keffe D" Davis sentenced to 40 years for rapper Tupac Shakur's murderBBC News
- Duane Keith Davis sentenced to 40 years to life over 1996 murder of Tupac ShakurThe Guardian
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