The man charged in his alleged role in the 1996 murder of hip-hop legend Tupac Shakur, Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis has lost his bid to suppress key evidence.mArguing that the evidence against him was obtained through an unlawful nighttime search, a judge denied the request during the Tuesday (2.17) hearing.
In his defense, the attorneys argued that Davis was a retired grandfather and cancer survivor who “cooperated politely” when a detective knocked on his door during daylight hours before the July 2023 search, adding that police made “strategic omissions” when they portrayed suspect as a “multiple-time convicted felon” with a gun arrest in their search warrant application.
According to the defendant’s lawyers, Davis left the drug trade in 2008 and had a ten years of lawful employment afterwards, working as an oil refinery inspector.
Davis has pleaded not guilty to a single murder count and is being held without bail at the Clark County Detention Centre in Las Vegas, as prosecutors allege he orchestrated Shakur’s drive-by killing and supplied the gun that also wounded Suge Knight, co-founder of Death Row Records, who was driving along the Vegas Strip.
During a 2008 interview with law enforcement, Davis claimed Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, the founder of Bad Boy Records, offered $1,000,000.00 to have Knight and Shakur killed amid a feud.
Authorities say the attack was retaliation after Shakur got in a fight with Orlando Anderson hours earlier inside a casino on 6 September, 1996.
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Author: Saul Goode
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