Tupac Shakur's Alleged Killer Granted $750,000 Bail Release
The individual suspected of mastermindings the 1996 assassination of renowned rap artist Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas has collected funds to post bail. Raising $750,000 could grant Duane “Keffe D” Davis, aged 61, temporary freedom under house arrest until his upcoming trial.
On January 9th, Judge Carli Kierny of Clark County District Court set bail, stating that Davis would need to clarify the source of the funds before his release. This hearing, known as a source hearing, is planned for Tuesday morning, reported by KLAS-TV/Las Vegas.
On His Way Out with Some Money
Captured at his home in Henderson, Nev in September 2023, Davis needed to raise only $112,000 because the remaining 85% will be guaranteed by the bail bond company, eBAIL, owned by Las Vegas bail agent Marc Gabriel.
Davis, a suspected member of the Southside Compton Crips gang, is the only individual indicted for Shakur’s murder, and the only survivor of the car from which the shots were fired on September 7, 1996.
Though not directly charged with pulling the trigger, Davis is accused of orchestrating the crime, which Nevada law also considers a form of murder.
Orlando Anderson, Davis' nephew and fellow Crips suspect, was questioned but never charged in relation to the crime. He succumbed to gunshots in a gang-related shooting at a car wash in Compton, Calif. two years later.
Two hours before Shakur was fatally shot, he and a group including Knight were filmed attacking Anderson as he left a boxing match at the MGM Grand. All members of the group, including Shakur, were supposedly tied to Mob Piru, a faction of the Bloods, the Crips' sworn enemies.
Two other men were suspected to be in the white Cadillac from which Shakur was fatally shot through the rear left window. Passengers Terry Brown and Deandrae “Big Dre” Smith also met their demise without ever being charged.
As of now, Davis, currently detained at the Clark County Detention Center, pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder on November 2, 2021. His trial is slated to commence on November 4, 202X.
If found guilty, he may serve the rest of his life in prison.
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