July 11, 2025

Tupac Shakur - "THE LAST LIVING WITNESS: How Keffe D's Own Confessions Finally Caught Up With Him"

Tupac Shakur - "THE LAST LIVING WITNESS: How Keffe D's Own Confessions Finally Caught Up With Him"

Reid Carter explores how the only man ever charged in Tupac Shakur's 1996 murder spent decades confessing to the crime - until his own words became the evidence that landed him in jail. From the MGM Grand fight that started it all to Keffe D's media tour that sealed his fate, discover how the most famous unsolved murder in hip-hop history finally has a defendant. Plus, why his recent jailhouse fight conviction shows even behind bars, some habits never die. When you're the last living witness to your own crime, eventually the truth catches up with you. Justice isn't always fast, but it's absolutely riveting.

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Caalaruga Shark Media. Good morning, I'm Red 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 crime times in American history. Let me

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take you back to the beginning, because to understand where

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we are today, you need to understand how a boxing

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match turned into a murder that haunted America for nearly

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thirty years. September seventh, nineteen ninety six, Tupac. Shakur attended

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the Bruce Selden versus Mike Tyson boxing match with Marion

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Sooge Knight, the head of Death Row Records, at the

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MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. After leaving the match,

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one of Knight's associates, Trevon Trey Lane, a member of

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the Mob Pirates gang based in Compton, California, spotted Orlando Anderson,

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from the rival South Side Compton Cripps Gang in the

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MGM 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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Southside Crips attempted to rob Lane in a foot locker

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store at the Lakewood Center Mall in Lakewood, California. Lane

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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 grant'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 caliber S

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and W Glock twenty two at Shakur's BMW. Shakur was

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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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ed at just twenty five years old, and sitting in

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the front passenger seat of that white Cadillac, a man

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named Dwayne Keith Davis, better known as Keffie d. Now

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here's where this story gets absolutely fascinating, folks. For nearly

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thirty years, this was America's most famous cold case. Conspiracy

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theories flourished. Maybe Souge Knight had Tupac killed, Maybe the

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government did it. Maybe Tupac faked his own death. But

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the people who knew the streets understood exactly what had happened.

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We all knew it was retaliation, said Reggie Wright Junior,

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the former head of security for death Row Records. The

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label 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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Caating 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 Keffie 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, Kefi 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 confessions 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. Keffi D 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

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Shakur in a long awaited breakthrough in one of hip

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hop's most enduring mysteries. September twenty ninth, twenty twenty three,

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nearly twenty seven years after Tupac's death, Keffie D was

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finally arrested at his home in Henderson, Nevada. Davis is

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the only person still alive who was in the vehicle

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from which shots were fired, and the only person ever

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charged with a crime in the case. The indictment alleges

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Davis obtained and provided a gun to someone in the

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backseat of a Cadillac before the Cardakar gunfire that mortally

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wounded Shakur and wounded rap music mogul Marion Suge Knight

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at an intersection just off the Las Vegas Strip. While

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I know there have been many people who did not

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believe that the murder of Tupac Shakur was important to

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this police department, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Sheriff Kevin

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mcmahill said during a press conference last week, I'm here

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to tell you that was simply not the case. It

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was not the case back then, and it was not

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the case today. But for people who'd been following the case,

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this wasn't shocking, it was overdue. For many, the site

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of a handcuffed kfe d being marched into court was

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a stunning breakthrough in one of the most enduring murder

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mysteries in hip hop and American celebrity. But for the

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people who have followed the case since that chaotic, bloody

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scene in Las Vegas, that night, Davis's arrest is a

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resolution that's several decades too late. Davis's own public words

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reinvigorated the investigation. The lead of Vegas's Homicide Bureau, Lieutenant

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Jason Johansson, told ABC last year and would be key

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in the case against him and would ultimately land him

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in the Las Vegas jail, where he now has been

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held since his September twenty twenty three arrest. Now you'd

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think that someone facing a murder charge in one of

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the most famous cases in American history would try to

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keep a low profile in jail. Not Davis. Keffid is

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set to stand trial in early April in connection with

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a jailhouse fight prosecutor say he participated in just before Christmas.

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He was indicted on battery by prisoner and challenges to

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fight charges after the December twenty third, twenty twenty four

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incident at the Clark County Detention Center. He pleaded not guilty.

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On April ninth, a Clark County jury found Dwayne Keffie D. Davis,

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sixty one, guilty of fighting with another inmate in December

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at the Clark County Detention Center. It took the jury

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ninety minutes to reach its verdict. According to jailhouse surveillance

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footage obtained by ABC News, the man who fought with

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Davis appeared to a been waiting alone and unattended in

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a common area when Davis came walking through with an escort.

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The second inmate can be seen lunging at Davis, who

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fought back. And this week we learned that Keffi D's

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attempt to get a new trial in the jailhouse fight

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case failed. Dwayne Keffie D. Davis, who was awaiting trial

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in the nineteen ninety six killing of rap Icon Tupac Shakur,

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lost his bid last week for a new trial in

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a separate battery case tied to a jailhouse fight. The

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jurors who convicted Davis of battery in the jailhouse fight

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were put on the witness stand Wednesday, one by one.

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Each of them denied claims by Davis's son and a

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man who describes himself as a journalist that they overheard

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one of the jurors talking about the battery case during

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a lunch break ahead of deliberations. Here's a man who

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spent decades bragging about his role in a murder and

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when he finally gets arrested. He can't even stay out

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of fights in jail. Some habits apparently never die back

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in a moment. Now here's where this story gets truly incredible.

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After decades of confessing to his role in Tupac's murder,

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Kefi d is now claiming he's innocent. The only man

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ever charged in the notorious Las Vegas murder of rapper

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Tupac Shakur, insists he is innocent, being railroaded by authorities,

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and that he only confessed to his purported role in

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the crime because he was getting paid to lie. I'm innocent,

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Davis said during a sometimes tearful, hour long meeting at

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the Clark County Detention Center. Not only does he say

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he had nothing to do with Shakur's killing, Davis said

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he was hundreds of miles away from where it happened,

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asserting for the first time where he says he was

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that night in Los Angeles and at home. Davis said

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he has about twenty or thirty people going to come

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to his murder trial, corroborating that alibi, to say nothing

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of the thirteen thousand people who say they killed Tupac.

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Even more absurd, Davis, sitting on a wooden bench under

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the harsh fluorescent lights of a jailhouse conference room and

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accompanied by corrections officers, now insists he didn't write his

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own memoir and hasn't even read it. I've never read

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the book, Davis said of his memoir, Compton Street Legend,

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on which he shares the credit as a co author.

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The back of the book bears the tagline, the last

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living eyewitness to Tupac's murder is telling his story. Let

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me get this straight. Keffie d co authored a book

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about being the last living witness to Tupac's murder, but

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he claims he never read it and had nothing to

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do with what was in it. That's like saying you

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co directed a movie but never watched it and don't

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know what happens in it. His defense attorney is now

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making even wilder claims. Defense attorney Carl Arnold said in

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the filing that his private investigator has identified several witnesses

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that cast doubt on the official version of events, and

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they are making further inquiries to determine the validity of

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some other cause of death for mister Shakur without presenting

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backup evidence. Arnold alleged that Reggie Wright Junior, who worked

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security for Knight's death Row Records, and his team were

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actually responsible for the star's death. Responding to the latest claims,

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Wright said Kefi d confessed to Tupac's murder to the

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LAPD in two thousand and eight, to the Las Vegas

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Metro PD in two thousand and nine, and then publicly

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from twenty eighteen to twenty twenty three on BET, multiple

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YouTube interviews and in a book about his life, and

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is only now using the media to slander me because

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he finally got arrested and has no other defense. And now,

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after all this drama, the trial has been pushed back

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yet again. The murder trial for Dwayne Keffie D. Davis,

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the only person ever charged in connection with the killing

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of rapper Tupac Shakur, has been postponed nearly a year

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after his defense team asked for more time to interview

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witnesses they say can prove he was not present at

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the time of the nineteen ninety six Las Vegas drive

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by shooting. Davis was initially set to go to trial

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for the famed rappers killing. In mid March, a judge

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pushed the trial date to February ninth, twenty twenty six,

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after his defense filed a motion to continue the trial.

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It looks like there are quite a few things that

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are left to be done to get this case prepared

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so that mister Davis can have effective assistance of counsel,

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Judge Carly Kearney said during a brief hearing on Tuesday.

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So now we're looking at February twenty twenty six, more

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than twenty nine years after Tupac's death, before this case

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goes to trial, if it goes to trial. Meanwhile, Kefi

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d has tried repeatedly to make bail, but judges keep

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rejecting his bond packages. A judge has again denied bail

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to Tupac Shakur murder suspect Dwayne Keffi D Davis overdoubts

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about the source of the bond money. At a July hearing,

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Clark County District Court Judge Carle Kearney rejected a one

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hundred twelve thousand, five hundred dollars down payment to secure

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Davis's seven hundred fifty thousand dollars bond, noting that the

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payment allegedly from music executive Cash Whack one hundred Jones

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was tied to an exclusive interview with Davis. Even potential

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bail money is connected to his media appearances. This man

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literally cannot stop monetizing his connection to Tupac's murder. Here's

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what fascinates me about the Keffe d case. This is

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a man who spent decades incriminating himself and then acts

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shocked when those confessions are used against him. But I

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think Keffe thought he was invincible. It's all unique in

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the sense that in this case, the star witness against

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the defendant is the defendant. Kefi D represents everything wrong

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with our celebrity obsessed culture. Here's a man who helped

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plan and execute the murder of one of America's most

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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

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that might have been true if Kefi D had just

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kept his mouth shut, But ego and greed got the

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better of him. He wanted the fame that came with

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being connected to one of hip hop's biggest mysteries. Now

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he's facing life in prison, and his own words are

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the prosecution's best evidence. Arnold argued prosecutors have no corroborated

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evidence aside from Davis's confessions, that the evidence comes solely

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from mister Davis's statements, and without independent sets of facts,

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the indictment against him must be dismissed. Think about that

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the defense is essentially admitting their client confessed, but arguing

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that confessions alone shouldn't be enough to convict him. In

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a case where the defendants spent decades publicly bragging about

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the crime, The jailhouse fight conviction this week just reinforces

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what we already know about Keffi D's character. This is

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a man who solves problems with violence, whether it's on

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the streets of Compton or in a Las Vegas jail cell.

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The Tupac murder case represents one of the great tragedies

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of American music, a twenty five year old artist at

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the peak of his powers, gunned down over street beef

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that could have been resolved with words instead of bullets.

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But it also represents something else. How Ego and the

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desire for fame can be a criminal's downfall. Keffie d

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thought he was untouchable. He thought he could profit from

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his connection to murder forever. He was wrong. Justice might

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be slow, but it's relentless, and sometimes the criminals do

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the prosecutor's job for them. When the trial finally begins

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in February twenty twenty six, nearly thirty years after that

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terrible night in Las Vegas, prosecutors won't need complicated forensics

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or unreliable witnesses. They'll just need to play Keffidi's own

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words back to the jury. That's celebrity trials for today.

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I'm read Carter. Remember, if you're going to confess to murder,

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maybe don't do it on television for money. Justice isn't

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always fast, but it's absolutely riveting.