A man who was arrested last week in connection with rapper Tupac Shakur’s 1996 murder appeared in a Nevada court on Tuesday.
KLAS reported that Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 60, was to be arraigned, but the hearing lasted only a few minutes because his lawyer was not present. Davis explained to the judge that his lawyer, who is based in California, needs two weeks to be present in court.
Davis was arrested on September 29 after a grand jury indicted him on charges of murder with the use of a deadly weapon with a gang enhancement. Davis, the uncle of Tupac’s suspected shooter Orlando Anderson, was arrested two months after cops searched his wife’s home in Henderson.
Anderson, who was a rival of Tupac’s, died in an unrelated shooting two years after Shakur was gunned down on the Las Vegas Strip in 1996. Davis said in a 2018 documentary “Unsolved: The Tupac and Biggie Murders” that he was in the car with the gunman.
At the time of the raid in July, police reportedly seized computers, a phone and hard drive, a Vibe magazine featuring Shakur, possible marijuana, documents related to a documentary, and photographs.
Las Vegas police previously said they were unable to make any arrests because they lacked evidence. However, KLAS reported that a break in the case occurred in 2018 when Davis did interviews to promote his book, “Compton Street Legend.”
According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the grand jury that indicted Davis reviewed four publicly available video clips of interviews he participated in after his book was released in 2019.
“I told on myself,” Davis reportedly said in one of the video clips which was posted to YouTube two years ago.
CNN reported that Davis will remain jailed without bail as he awaits his next court date. Previous reports indicated that he has an outstanding warrant for failing to appear in a drug case.
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[Featured image: Tupac/AP Photo/Frank Wiese, File; Duane Davis/Las Vegas Police Department
