Who Killed 2Pac? | The Murder of Tupac Shakur

Thirty years of asking who killed Tupac Shakur, and the answer playing in a Las Vegas courtroom is Duane "Keffe D" Davis narrating the night himself. Day 5 put his 2009 police interview in front of the jury, and it starts with what he wanted the moment he knew Tupac was gone. From there the tape rolls through his whole account: the Tyson fight, the lobby beating of his nephew, a failed hunt for Suge Knight's car at Club 662, and a white Cadillac pulling up beside a black BMW. His word for how they found it was luck. He describes the gun, the handoff, and shots he claims were meant for the driver's seat, not the passenger who died. Leonard Jefferson, who snapped the final photo of Tupac at a stoplight minutes before the shooting, told jurors police released him from the scene and then had to hunt him down at his hotel to get him back. The jury also heard how Davis's story became an industry: a detective's book, a paid docuseries appearance, sealed audio spliced into television. Sean Combs appears in Davis's telling; Combs denies all of it, was never a suspect, and faces no charges. Davis ended the week on his feet, pointing at the prosecutor. Monday, the tapes keep rolling.

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Detectives sat Duane "Keffe D" Davis down in 2008 to talk about the murder of the Notorious B.I.G. Nobody in that room asked him a single question about Tupac Shakur. He brought it up himself. 
That's the detail sitting at the center of the Tupac Shakur murder trial now underway in Las Vegas. Davis had already told the FBI years earlier that neither he nor his nephew had anything to do with Shakur's death. Then, under a promise that nothing he said in that 2008 interview could be used against him, he reversed course completely: riding in the front seat of a white Cadillac on September 7, 1996, spotting Shakur in a black BMW driven by Marion "Suge" Knight, passing a handgun into the back seat, and saying that if the cars had lined up differently, he would have fired the shots himself. His nephew, Orlando Anderson, allegedly took the gun and opened fire. Shakur died six days later. He was 25. 
Prosecutors say Davis repeated that account for years afterward — in a BET documentary, a 2019 memoir, and paid interviews — even after a retired detective published details from the case in a 2011 book. Davis was indicted in September 2023. He's pleaded not guilty and faces life in prison. His defense says the entire narrative is fiction built on a man who talks too much and proves nothing. 
So why does a man who once denied everything to federal agents suddenly volunteer a murder confession to detectives who never asked? Hidden Killers walks through the full timeline — the Cadillac, the promise, the decade of public retellings — and the question jurors now have to answer: is this a confession, or a story a man told so many times he started believing it himself? 
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Thirty years of arguments about who shot Tupac Shakur came down to a speaker in a Las Vegas courtroom playing Duane "Keffe D" Davis's own voice. The jury in the Tupac Shakur trial heard his 2008 account of the white Cadillac and the night of September 7, 1996, along with the promise detectives made before he said a word: none of it could ever be used against him.

Davis is not charged with firing the shots. The state's theory is orchestration, alleging he got the gun after Orlando Anderson was beaten at the MGM Grand and moved it toward the back seat, where Anderson allegedly used it on Shakur and Marion "Suge" Knight. On tape, Davis says the seat he occupied was the only reason he did not pull the trigger himself.

The room itself is part of the story. The detectives were chasing the Notorious B.I.G. case and testified they never raised Tupac. Davis brought it up on his own, reversing the denials he gave the FBI in 1998 and 1999.

Anderson died in 1998 without being charged. The gun and the Cadillac were never recovered. Davis became a confidential informant, then a memoir author, then a defendant. Prosecutors say his years of public storytelling killed the confidentiality deal, and the indictment landed in September 2023. He has pleaded not guilty and faces life.

This channel is following every day of the trial that finally puts the question to a jury, and the answer may come from the defendant's own mouth.

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For nearly thirty years, Keffe D described the night Tupac Shakur was shot in Las Vegas. He detailed the beating of his nephew Orlando Anderson at the MGM Grand, the retaliation plan, the white Cadillac, and the shooting at a red light. He told law enforcement. He appeared on camera. He co-authored a book. Prosecutors opened by calling his own words the evidence — a pattern of admissions nobody asked him to make. His defense attorney told the jury to separate fact from fiction. Tony Brueski and retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke work through the listener questions landing hardest in this audience. The three other people in the car are dead. The prosecution's key evidence — the book — comes with a built-in defense argument that it was exaggerated to sell copies. The investigation has gaps, missing reports, and decades of agency distrust. Tupac's family sat in the courtroom as autopsy photos were displayed. One relative said thirty years of unfinished grief led him to stay in the room and look. Whether a conviction gives that family closure or just reopens everything is one of the questions this conversation refuses to leave alone.

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"We did the other one." Five words Keffe D Davis offered voluntarily to an LAPD detective who was investigating a completely different murder. Daryn Dupree was working the Biggie Smalls homicide case when Davis told him that remark. Dupree testified on Day 3 of the murder trial that "the only other one was Tupac." Nobody asked Davis about Tupac. He brought it up himself.

Before Dupree took the stand, the jury heard from Wade Lee, a former FBI agent who investigated Davis for drug trafficking in the late 1990s. Lee conducted a proffer interview with Davis in 1998, just two years after Tupac Shakur was shot and killed on the Las Vegas Strip. Davis was identified as a person of interest in the murder.

The prosecution clarified a critical distinction on Day 3: Davis's proffer carried no immunity. Nothing he said in that room with federal agents was legally protected.

Lee testified there was no proof Davis ordered a hit and that the FBI never independently verified Davis was in Las Vegas the night Tupac was shot. The jury submitted questions about what the FBI did with Davis's statements and why the case took twenty-seven years to reach a courtroom.

Davis had served prison time on drug charges. Two law enforcement officers, from two separate agencies, heard Davis discuss Tupac's murder across different decades.

Cross-examination of Dupree began at 3:43 p.m. and will continue when court resumes.

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Some of Tupac Shakur's family members walked out of the Clark County courtroom on Tuesday before autopsy photographs appeared on screen. His cousin Zayd Akinyela stayed in his seat and watched photographs of a body that had been dead for six days when they were taken.

Day 2 of the Duane "Keffe D" Davis murder trial put the physical record of Shakur's death in front of a jury for the first time since 1996. The prosecution called six witnesses. None were present at the shooting.

Clark County medical examiner Dr. Lisa Gavin described three bullet wounds from Polaroid photographs taken during the original autopsy in September 1996. One round collapsed a lung. Shakur survived six days in a hospital before dying at twenty-five years old. The examiner who performed the original autopsy has since died.

An MGM investigator authenticated casino surveillance footage from the night of a Mike Tyson heavyweight fight that ended in a ninety-second knockout. The footage survived on VHS tape because nobody bothered to erase it. It showed Shakur and Death Row Records associates attacking Davis's nephew Orlando Anderson in the casino lobby. Two and a half hours later, Shakur was shot four times from a white Cadillac on Flamingo Road.

Former sergeant Kenneth Rios testified he made contact with Anderson after the beating. Anderson declined to press charges. No report was ever filed. Anderson later became the primary suspect in the murder and was killed in Compton in 1998. He was never charged.

No murder weapon has been recovered in thirty years. The white Cadillac has never been found. All three other men believed to have been in the Cadillac are dead.

The trial resumes Wednesday with additional prosecution witnesses.

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Duane "Keffe D" Davis walked into a Clark County courtroom Monday in a blue suit and tie, scanned the audience, and sat down next to his attorney. Thirty years after the most famous unsolved murder in American music, someone was finally sitting in front of a jury. One juror told the court during selection that she'd never heard of Tupac Shakur.

Davis is the first person ever charged in the killing of Tupac Shakur. The case had been cold for nearly three decades before Davis's own memoir provided the probable cause for his arrest in September 2023. The charges are murder with a deadly weapon and a gang enhancement.

Chief Deputy District Attorney Binu Palal opened Monday by showing the jury security camera footage from the MGM Grand on September 7, 1996. Shakur and several Death Row Records associates attacked Davis's nephew Orlando Anderson in the casino lobby after a Mike Tyson fight. Two and a half hours later, Shakur was shot four times from a white Cadillac at a stoplight on Flamingo Road. He died six days later at twenty-five years old.

The prosecution's case rests on Davis's own words. He described the shooting in a 2008 police interview under immunity. He appeared in a BET documentary. He described it on podcasts and in magazine interviews. Then he published a memoir called Compton Street Legend, put his name on the cover, and identified himself as the shot caller.

Defense attorney Michael Sanft told the jury Davis wrote the book for one reason: money. The story would sell whether it was true or not. In March 2025, from a jail cell, Davis told reporters he was innocent and wasn't even in Las Vegas that night.

No murder weapon was recovered. The white Cadillac was never found. All three other men from that car are dead. Davis is sixty-three and faces mandatory life without parole.

The prosecution asks a jury to convict on a man's own words. The defense asks that same jury to believe he lied for thirty years because it paid.

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No murder weapon. No DNA. The man prosecutors say pulled the trigger has been dead since 1998. And yet Duane "Keffe D" Davis is on trial in Las Vegas for the murder of Tupac Shakur, largely because of what came out of his own mouth over the past fifteen years. He described his alleged role to the LAPD in a 2008 proffer session. He repeated it on BET's "Death Row Chronicles." He wrote it down in detail in his 2019 memoir, claiming he handed the gun to his nephew Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson and gave the order after a fight at the MGM Grand.  Then came the 2023 arrest, and a very different Keffe D showed up. He told ABC News he's innocent. He said the whole story was invented to sell books. He even claimed he wasn't in Las Vegas the night Tupac died, contradicting his own memoir. Judge Carli Kierny has ruled his statements from all of it admissible, and the immunity argument built around that 2008 proffer has already been rejected.  Las Vegas police had what they needed by 2009. The arrest took fourteen more years. Along the way, Davis burned through three legal teams and picked up a battery conviction behind bars. He's 63 now, charged with murder with a deadly weapon and a gang enhancement, facing life without parole, and he's pleaded not guilty.  Mopreme Shakur says his family has waited thirty years for a courtroom. That courtroom is open now, and the only witness against Davis might be Davis himself, across three different platforms, over fifteen years, in his own words, before he ever expected any of it to end up in front of a jury. 
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The only man ever charged in Tupac Shakur's murder is standing trial in Las Vegas, and what the prosecution is walking in with may surprise you. There is no recovered gun. There is no DNA. Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson, Duane "Keffe D" Davis's nephew and the man prosecutors say opened fire from the back seat of the white Cadillac, denied involvement and was killed in Compton in 1998. He can't be cross-examined. Judge Carli Kierny has ruled the state's central evidence admissible, which means the jury hears it directly. Davis is 63, has pleaded not guilty, and faces one count of murder with a deadly weapon carrying a gang enhancement. He's been jailed since his arrest in Henderson in September 2023. Since then he's told ABC News he's innocent and that he talked about the killing to make money. Every defense motion has been denied, including the immunity claim tied to a 2008 proffer with an LAPD task force investigating the murder of Christopher Wallace. Las Vegas police had those 2008 statements by 2009. Davis wasn't arrested for another fourteen years. Tupac was 25 when he was shot. His mother Afeni died in 2016 without answers.

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In "Compton Street Legend," published in 2019, Duane "Keffe D" Davis described in detail his alleged role in the murder of Tupac Shakur. He placed himself in the white Cadillac. He described providing the gun to his nephew Orlando Anderson. He described the motive — retaliation for Anderson being beaten by members of Tupac's entourage at the MGM Grand on the night of September 7, 1996.

Davis had told the same story before — to the LAPD in a 2008 proffer session and on BET's documentary series. But the book took it further, putting it in Davis's own words, on the public record, in print.

Las Vegas prosecutors say that book is what brought the case back to life. A grand jury indicted Davis in 2023, and his trial is set to begin. He faces a single count of murder with a deadly weapon with gang enhancement — and life without parole if convicted.

Davis now says he fabricated the entire account for financial gain. He has claimed he was not even in Las Vegas the night Tupac was killed — a statement that contradicts every prior version of the story he told over fifteen years.

Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down the prosecution's reliance on self-incriminating statements, the contested immunity claim, and whether a jury in 2026 can deliver a verdict on a murder that happened in 1996.

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