After thirty years, the gavel has finally fallen on the most infamous murder mystery in hip-hop history. On October 13, 2026, in Department 2 of the Eighth Judicial District Court in Clark County, Nevada (Case No. C23-377407-1), Judge Carli Kierny formally sentenced 63-year-old Duane "Keffe D" Davis to 40 years to life in Nevada State Prison for orchestrating and supplying the firearm used in the September 7, 1996 drive-by murder of Tupac Amaru Shakur.
In an emotionally charged courtroom proceeding, Judge Kierny addressed Davis directly from the bench: "You don't get to take a man from his family. You don't get to take his very life, his whole future from him, and just walk away from it. Especially when that man is Tupac Shakur. The world never forgot about him and his death, and neither did Las Vegas." Tupac's sister, Sekyiwa Shakur, delivered a moving victim impact statement on behalf
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