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Celebrity Trials is kicking off season two with a new
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host and new name. Hey, I'm Garrett Fisher and starting
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March sixteenth, I'll be the new host on Daily Crime
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and Justice. It's the same great show, now with extra
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crime and extra justice in the meantime. Please enjoy this
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encore performance of one of Celebrity Trials classic episodes. See
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you on March sixteenth. We'll miss you, Read Carter and
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wish you the best.
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Callaroga Shark Media. Good morning, I'm Read Carter and welcome
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to Celebrity Trials on this Friday, July eleventh. Today we're
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taking you back to one of the most infamous nights
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in American music history, September seventh, nineteen ninety six, when
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gunshots on the Las Vegas Strip silenced one of the
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most influential voices of his generation. But this isn't just
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another conspiracy theory deep dive. This is the story of
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how the only man ever charged in Tupac Shakur's murder
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spent nearly three decades confessing to the crime before his
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own words finally caught up with him. Because this week
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we learned that Dwayne Keffie D Davis the self proclaimed
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last living witness to Tupac's murder, can't seem to stay
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out of trouble even while awaiting trial for one of
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the most notorious crimes in American history. Let me take
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you back to the beginning, because to understand where we
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are today, you need to understand how a boxing match
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turned into a murder that haunted America for nearly thirty years.
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September seventh, nineteen ninety six, Tupac Shakur attended the Bruce
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Selden versus Mike Tyson boxing match with Marion Sooge Knight,
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the head of Death Row Records, at the MGM Grand
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in Las Vegas, Nevada. After leaving the match, one of
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Knight's associates, Trevon Trey Lane, a member of the Mob
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Pyrus Gang based in Compton, California, spotted Orlando Anderson from
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the rival South Side Compton Cripps Gang in the MGM
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Grand lobby. This wasn't a random encounter. Earlier that year,
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in July nineteen ninety six, Anderson and a group of
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South Side Crips attempted to rob Lane in a foot
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locker store at the Lakewood Center Mall in Lakewood, California.
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Lane told Shakur, who in turn attacked Anderson in the lobby.
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Shakur asked Anderson if he was from the South south
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Side Crips and punched him in the face, knocking him
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to the ground. Shakur and Knights entourage assisted in assaulting Anderson.
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The fight, which was captured on the MGM Grand's video surveillance,
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was broken up by hotel security. Here's where the story
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gets tragic. At eleven fifteen PM, a white four door
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late model Cadillac pulled up to Knight's right side. The shooter,
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seated at the back of the Cadillac, rolled down the
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window and rapidly fired gunshots from a forty k caliber
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s and W Glock twenty two at Chakur's BMW. Shakur
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was struck by four rounds fired from a forty caliber glock,
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two in the chest, one in the arm, and one
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in the thigh. Orlando Anderson, a CRIPS gang member, was
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suspected in the murder, but denied by authorities. Six days later,
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on September thirteenth, nineteen ninety six, Tupac Shakur was dead
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at just twenty five years old and sitting in the
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front passenger seat of that white Cadillac a man named
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Dwayne Keith Davis, better known as Keffi d. Now here's
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where this story gets absolutely fascinating folks. For nearly thirty years,
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this was America's most famous cold case. Conspiracy theories flourished.
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Maybe Souge Knight had Tupac killed, Maybe the government did it.
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Maybe Tupac faked his own death. But the people who
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knew the streets understood exactly what had happened. We all
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knew it was retaliation, said Reggie Wright, Junior, the former
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head of six Security for death row records. The label
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Shakur was signed to at the time of his death.
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It was as simple as one plus one equals two.
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In two thousand and nine, now retired LAPD detective Greg
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Kating made a major break in the cold case murder.
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Kating secured a recorded confession from Dwayne Davis, also known
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by his street name Keffi d. He gave his initial
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statement under what's known as a proffer session. He can
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confess to crimes, but those confessions can't be used against him.
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But that doesn't mean he's immune from prosecution. Kating explained,
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with that limited immunity, Keffi D told authorities that he
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was in the car when his nephew Orlando Anderson shot
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and killed Tupac. He even says he passed him the gun.
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But here's the thing about Keffi D. He couldn't stop talking.
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Since then, Keffi D has done several other interviews in
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which he repeated his confession. He even has a new
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book about it for sale on Amazon. What he's done publicly,
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all the confession he's made since on b et vlad
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TV and these other platforms, those don't fall under the
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protection of his agreement, Kating said, think about that for
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a moment. KEFFID had limited immunity for his first confession,
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but then he went on a media tour bragging about
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his role in one of the most famous murders in
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American history. He wrote a book about it, he did
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interviews about it. He turned his confession into a brand.
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Davis had already given several on camera interviews and even
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published his own memoir, which included intricate details about his
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role in the fatal September nineteen ninety six shooting of Shakur.
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A grand jury in Las Vegas has indicted the last
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living suspect in the nineteen ninety six killing of Tupac Shakur,
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in a long awaited breakthrough in one of hip hop's
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most enduring mysteries. September twenty ninth, twenty twenty three, nearly
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twenty seven years after Tupac's death, Kefi d was finally
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arrested at his home in Henderson, Nevada. Davis is the
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only person still alive who was in the vehicle from
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which shots were fired and the only person ever charged
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with a crime in the case. The indictment alleges Davis
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obtained and provided a gun to someone in the backseat
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of a Cadillac before the car to car gunfire that
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mortally wounded Shakur and wounded rap music mogul Marion sooge
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Night at an intersection just off the Las Vegas Strip.
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While I know there have been many people who did
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not believe that the murder of Tupac Shakur was important
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to this police department, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Sheriff
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Kevin mcmahill said during a press conference last week, I'm
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here to tell you that was simply not the case.
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It was not the case back then, and it was
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not the case today. But for people who'd been following
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the case, this wasn't shocking, it was overdue. For many,
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the site of a handcuffed kfe D being marched into
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court was a stunning breakthrough in one of the most
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enduring murder mysteries in hip hop and American celebrity. But
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for the people who have followed the case since that chaotic,
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bloody scene in Las Vegas that night, Davis's arrest is
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a resolution that's several decades too late. Davis's own public
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words reinvigorated the investigation, the lead of Vegas's Homicide Bureau,
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Lieutenant Jason Johansson, told ABC last year, and would be
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key in the case against him and would ultimately land
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him in the Las Vegas jail, where he now has
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been held since his September twenty twenty three arrest. Now,
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you'd think that someone facing a murder charge in one
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of the most famous cases in American history would try
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to keep a low profile in jail. Not Davis. Kefid
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is set to stand trial in early April in connection
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with a jailhouse fight prosecutor say he participated in just
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before Christmas. He was indicted on battery by prisoner and
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challenges to fight charges after the December twenty third, twenty
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twenty four incident at the Clark County Detention Center. He
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pleaded not guilty. On April ninth, a Clark County jury
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found Dwayne Keffie D. Davis, sixty one, guilty of fighting
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with another inmate in December at the Clark County Detention Center.
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It took the jury ninety minutes to reach its verdict.
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According to jailhouse surveillance footage obtained by ABC News, the
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man who fought with Davis appeared to have been waiting
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alone and unattended in a common area when Davis came
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walking through with an escort. The second inmate can be
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seen lunging at Davis, who fought back. And this week
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we learned that Keffi D's attempt to get a new
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trial in the jailhouse fight case failed. Dwayne Keffie D. Davis,
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who was awaiting trial in the nineteen ninety six killing
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of rap Icon Tupac Shakur, lost his bid last week
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for a new trial in a separate battery case tied
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to a jailhouse fight. The jurors who convicted Davis of
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battery in the jailhouse fight, were put on the witness
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stand Wednesday. One by one. Each of them denied claims
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by Davis's son and a man who describes himself as
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a journalist that they overheard one of the jurors talking
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about the battery case during a lunch break ahead of deliberations.
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Here's a man who spent decades bragging about his role
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in a murder, and when he finally gets arrested, he
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can't even stay out of fights in jail. Some habits
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apparently never die back in a moment. Now here's where
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this story gets truly incredible. After decades of confessing to
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his role in Tupac's murder, Kefi d is now claiming
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he's innocent. The only man ever charged in the notorious
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Las Vegas murder of rapper Tupac Shakur insists he is innocent,
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being railroaded by authorities, and that he only confessed to
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his purported role in the crime because he was getting
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paid to lie. I'm innocent, Davis said during a sometimes tearful,
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hour long meeting at the Clark County Detention Center. Not
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only does he say he had nothing to do with
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Shakur's killing. Davis said he was hundreds of miles away
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from where it happened, asserting for the first time where
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he says he was that night in Los Angeles and
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at home. Davis said he has about twenty or thirty
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people going to come to his murder trial, corroborating that alibi,
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to say nothing of the thirteen thousand people who say
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they killed Tupac. Even more absurd, Davis, sitting on a
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wooden bench under the harsh fluorescent lights of a jailhouse
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conference room and accompanied by corrections officers, now insists he
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didn't write his own memoir and hasn't even read it.
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I've never read the book, Davis said of his memoir,
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Compton Street Legend, on which he shares the credit as
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a co author. The back of the book bears the tagline,
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the last living eyewitness to two Upo's murder is telling
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his story. Let me get this straight, Keffi d co
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authored a book about being the last living witness to
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Tupac's murder, but he claims he never read it and
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had nothing to do with what was in it. That's
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like saying you co directed a movie but never watched
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it and don't know what happens in it. His defense
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attorney is now making even wilder claims. Defense attorney Carl
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Arnold said in the filing that his private investigator has
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identified several witnesses that cast doubt on the official version
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of events, and they are making further inquiries to determine
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the validity of some other cause of death for mister
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Shakur without presenting backup evidence. Arnold alleged that Reggie Wright Junior,
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who worked security for Knight's death Row Records, and his
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team were actually responsible for the star's death. Responding to
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the latest claims, Wright said Kefi D confessed to Tupac's
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murder to the LAPD in two thousand and eight, to
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the Las Vegas Metro PD in two thousand and nine,
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and then publicly from twenty eighteen to twenty twenty three
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on BET, multiple YouTube interviews, and in a book about
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his life, and is only now using the media to
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slander me because he finally got arrested and has no
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other defense. And now after all this drama, the trial
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has been pushed back yet again. The murder trial for
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Dwayne kefie D Davis, the only person ever charged in
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connection with the killing of rapper Tupac Shakur, has been
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postponed nearly a year after his defense team asked for
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more time to interview witnesses they say can prove he
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was not present at the time of the nineteen ninety
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six Las Vegas drive by shooting. Davis was initially set
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to go to trial for the famed rappers killing. In
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mid March, a judge pushed the trial date to February ninth,
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twenty twenty six, after his defense filed a motion to
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continue the trial. It looks like there are quite a
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few things that are left to be done to get
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this case prepared so that mister Davis and have effective
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assistance of counsel, Judge Carle Kearney said during a brief
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hearing on Tuesday. So now we're looking at February twenty
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twenty six, more than twenty nine years after Tupac's death,
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before this case goes to trial, if it goes to trial. Meanwhile,
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Keffie d has tried repeatedly to make bail, but judges
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keep rejecting his bond packages. A judge has again denied
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bail to Tupac Shakur murder suspect Dwayne Keffi D Davis
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overdoubts about the source of the bond money. At a
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July hearing, Clark County District Court Judge Carle Kearney rejected
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a one hundred twelve thousand, five hundred dollars down payment
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to secure Davis's seven hundred fifty thousand dollars bond, noting
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that the payment, allegedly from music executive Cash Whack one
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hundred Jones, was tied to an exclusive interview with Davis.
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Even potential bail money is connected to his media appearances.
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This man literally cannot stop monetizing his canettion to Tupac's murder.
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Here's what fascinates me about the Kefi D case. This
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is a man who spent decades incriminating himself and then
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acts shocked when those confessions are used against him. But
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I think Kefi thought he was invincible. It's all unique
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in the sense that in this case, the star witness
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against the defendant is the defendant. Kefi D represents everything
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wrong with our celebrity obsessed culture. Here's a man who
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helped plan and execute the murder of one of America's
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most beloved artists. And instead of living quietly with his secret,
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he turned it into a career. He did interviews, he
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wrote books, he went on podcasts. He built a brand
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around being the last living witness to Tupac's murder. He
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thought his immunity from that two thousand and eight proffer
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agreement meant he could confess publicly forever without consequences. He
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was wrong. It seems like if you wanted to get
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away with murder, all you had to do was kill
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Tupac in nineteen ninety six, said filmmaker Mike Dorsey. And