Duane “Keefe D” Davis has filed an appeal this week asking the Nevada Supreme Court to dismiss the murder charge he is facing in the killing of late rap icon Tupac Shakur.
The former gang member, who’s been behind bars since September 2023 on charges related to the 1996 murder and wants the charges thrown out.
Davis, 61, was arrested and charged last year in connection with Tupac’s shooting death in Las Vegas, a case that has remained one of hip-hop’s most haunting unsolved crimes for nearly three decades.
Though his trial was originally scheduled to begin on June 3, 2024, it has been delayed several times. Most recently, the date was pushed yet again from March 2025 to February 9, 2026, after a motion was filed just last week.
Now, his defense team says they have new witnesses prepared to testify that Davis wasn’t even in the vehicle during the drive-by shooting that claimed the 25-year-old rapper’s life.
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Earlier this year, in March, Davis sat down with ABC News for his first televised interview since his arrest, where he maintained his innocence.
“I’m innocent,” he told the outlet. “I did not do it.”
Davis insisted that prosecutors lack any real evidence tying him to the killing.
“They don’t have nothing. And they know they don’t have nothing. They can’t even place me out here. They don’t have no gun, no car, no Keefe D, no nothing,” he said. “I ain’t killed nobody. Never did, never killed nobody.”
As the legal battle continues, Davis remains in custody awaiting trial.