Tupac Murder Trial: Prosecutors Play Keffe D’s 2008 Confession in Court

In a Las Vegas courtroom, the fifteen-year-old interview that ended Duane “Keffe D” Davis’s silence over Tupac Shakur’s murder finally went on the record. Played for jurors on Thursday, the December 2008 conversation — once meant to remain sealed — now forms the prosecution’s central claim: that Davis admitted to his role in the 1996 drive-by shooting.

Davis agreed to speak with former LAPD detectives Greg Kading and Daryn Dupree while facing possible life sentences on drug charges. In the recording, he describes the rented Cadillac stopping next to the BMW carrying Shakur and Suge Knight. Seated in the front passenger seat, Davis says he passed a .40-caliber Glock to the back, where his nephew Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson fired across the car after fellow Crip DeAndre Smith hesitated.

Davis is heard saying, “We did what we had to do.” He also recounts the group returning to a hotel to “smoke weed and drink” and finding an ambulance carrying Shakur and Knight “funny as a motherfucker.”

The trial continues as prosecutors use Davis’s own words to try to close one of hip-hop’s longest open wounds.