Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis sentenced to 40 years to life over murder of Tupac Shakur

‘You don’t get to take a man from his family … and just walk away from it,’ judge says as former gang leader sentenced Tupac trial spotlights decades of US police failures in solving the case Duane “Keffe D” Davis, the former California gang leader convicted of murder for orchestrating the 1996 fatal shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur , has been sentenced to 40 years to life in prison.

“For three years, I’ve heard you say some variation of the same thing … ‘Yeah, I was involved in this.

But I’m different.

I’ve moved on.

I got out of Compton.

I’m a grandfather now,’” Judge Carli Kierny said Tuesday as she delivered the sentence.

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