Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 63, the only person ever charged with the murder of rapper Tupac Shakur, was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison on Tuesday, Oct. 13, ABC News reported.
Judge Carli Kierny sentenced Davis, saying that he would not “walk away” from taking a person’s life decades after Shakur’s death. “At this time, you are going to face justice for what you did,” Kierny added.
Davis’ sentence comes just over 30 years after Shakur was murdered in a drive-by shooting near the Las Vegas Strip on Sept. 7, 1996. Considered one of the most infamous cold cases in American history, Shakur’s death sparked widespread speculation. and theories in the decades leading up to Davis’ conviction.
Duane Davis looks on during his murder trial, related to the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur, at Clark County District Court Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas on August 25, 2026. The trial of the former gang leader accused of orchestrating the murder of rapper Tupac Shakur began on August 10, 30 years after one of America’s most high-profile unresolved killings. The proceedings, expected to last a month, will likely not make clear who fired the shots that killed the California hip-hop legend on the night of September 7, 1996, while he was in Las Vegas to see a Mike Tyson boxing match. (Photo by John Locher / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)John Locher / POOL / AFP via Getty Images
Davis, a former Southside Crips gang leader, was convicted in Sept. 2023 for first-degree murder with the use of a deadly weapon, in relation to Shakur’s death. However, in August 2026, the jury of 12 found Davis guilty not of pulling the trigger, but of orchestrating Shakur’s murder as the “shot caller.” According to The Hollywood Reporter, Davis pleaded not guilty on the murder charge, and he maintained his innocence after his conviction.
Prosecutor Marc DiGiacomo told the jury that Davis bragged about “beating the feds” and that “Mr. Davis is trying to escape responsibility for a crime’ he admitted to multiple times, AP News reported.
“At the end of the day, hold him accountable,” DiaGiacomo said in his closing argument.
While in court, members of Shakur’s family gave emotional statements expressing their grief caused by the hip-hop icon’s death.
“I do believe that when you take a life like that, you deserve every minute, every minute of the maximum amount of punishment, time to sit down and contemplate what you’ve done to this world, not just to me,” Sekyiwa Shakur said.
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