Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis has been found guilty of orchestrating the murder of Tupac Shakur in 1996.

The jury found Davis guilty of one count of murder with a deadly weapon in a drive-by attack in Las Vegas on September 7, 1996.

The jury deliberated for less than 3 hours after a weeks long trial in Vegas.

Davis said he would appeal after the verdict was read out in court, according to .

After the verdict was read, Shakur’s sister, Sekyiwa ‘Set’ Shakur, cried and hugged the prosecutors. Also in the courtroom was Davis’ son, who covered his face with one hand, reports the .

Clark county district court judge Carli Kierny scheduled Davis’s sentencing hearing for October 13.

Prosecutors argued during the trial that although Davis, a former leader of the South Side Compton Crips street gang, did not fire the gun that killed Shakur, he ordered the shooting and supplied the gun that his nephew Orlando Anderson used to open fire.

Prosecutors argued that the attack was retaliation for Shakur and members of his entourage beating Anderson at the MGM Grand hours earlier.

Anderson, who died two years later in an unrelated shootout, was a member of a rival gang in Compton, California.

Prosecutors played eight hours of recordings during the trial, taken from four separate events in different years, during which Davis shared in his own words on what happened, repeatedly and publicly acknowledging being inside the white Cadillac from where the deadly shots were fired.

Davis previously told authorities about his role in Shakur’s death during a secret 2008 police interview related to the death of fellow rapper The Notorious B.I.G.. He elaborated further on his role in his 2019 memoir, .

Davis’ defence attorney Michael Sanft maintained that Davis fabricated the accounts for personal advantage, entertainment and money. He also argued that investigators did not charge his client after the 2008 interview because they did not consider his story credible or find sufficient evidence to corroborate it.

The court heard during one recording that Davis identified himself as the front passenger in the rented white Cadillac that pulled alongside the BMW carrying Shakur and Suge Knight on September 7, 1996.

He said Terrence ‘Bubble Up’ Brown was driving, while his nephew Orlando ‘Baby Lane’ Anderson and DeAndre ‘Dre’ Smith were sitting in the back. Davis claimed that he passed a loaded gun to the back seat because he did not have a clear shot from his side of the vehicle.

According to the recording, Smith initially hesitated before Anderson took the weapon. “He rolled down the window, popped ’em,” David told investigators.

Davis claimed he would have opened fire himself had Knight’s BMW been positioned on his side of the Cadillac. He also said he saw Shakur attempting to move into the back seat as the shots were fired.

Shakur was gunned down after a car drove alongside him and opened fire as he travelled from a Mike Tyson boxing match. He died from his injuries six days later.

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