NEW evidence has been exposed in the high-profile murder trial of Duane “Keefe D” Davis that reportedly places him in Las Vegas on the night rap icon Tupac Shakur was murdered.

The 60-year-old self-proclaimed Compton Crip gang has been in custody since September on $750,000 bail.

A Las Vegas ruling denied Davis’ release in June after the jailed gangster was able to get $750,000 bail to be released while he awaited trial.

Prosecutors said they exposed decades-old evidence that places Davis in Las Vegas on Sept. 7, 1996, the night Tupac was killed in a drive-by shooting.

Investigators said a room at the Monte Carlo Resort, now Park MGM, was reserved at the home of Davis’ wife, Paula Clemons, according to court documents received by The U. S. Sun.

Authorities also learned that a room at the Excalibur Hotel & Casino was booked on call from Davis’s nephew, Orlando Anderson, the alleged shooter in the fatal Tupac shooting.

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police detectives were reviewing hotel records for reservations made in the names of known gang members, according to court documents.

However, Clemons’ reservations have not drawn attention to herself, as she was not a known Southside Crip, according to court documents.

Davis’ attorneys in the past argued in their motion to dismiss the fees that there was no evidence placing him in Las Vegas on the night of the murder.

A Las Vegas legal expert revealed to the U. S. Sun on Wednesday that prosecutors were looking for all documents or surveillance photographs of the Monte Carlo hotel.

Those investigators knew that Davis had stayed at the hotel several times in the past.

“They are in contact to search visitor booking records to identify if there is evidence that Keefe or any of his affiliates in the Crip were booked,” the source said.

The legal source said investigators were treating the case as if it “happened in 2024, 28 years ago. “

“They even looked at the receipts of the local bars and restaurants to see if their call was in sight.

“That was the time when many sales options were virtual systems, so it takes many hours to review old documents.

“It is difficult to locate surveillance photographs from the 1990s. Cameras at Monte Carlo, MGM and elsewhere have never been well recorded or examined, so this procedure is laborious.

“But the prosecutor knows that it takes a few seconds for the prosecution to achieve a victory. “

Prosecutors re-examined the original murder files with new eyes and interviewed all those named in the files.

“These investigations have led to new leads and opportunities to speak to potential new witnesses, who have never come forward to police,” he added.

“Conversations are underway with several other people with ties to Keefe and his gang. What results from it remains secret for the time being. “

By Emma Parry, senior reporter at The Sun, who has been following Tupac’s murder for 10 years.  

TUPAC enthusiasts have been waiting for justice for the iconic rapper for nearly 28 years.

Finally, in September 2023, it turns out that progress has been made with the arrest of Duane “Keefe D” Davis, a former Southside Crip gangster in Compton, Los Angeles, who had been telling the world for years that he and his fellow Los “gang soldiers” were guilty of the coup.

I’ve been reporting on the case for several years and it’s seemed pretty undeniable to me. . . Keefe had spent the last decade gaining notoriety by boasting about his alleged involvement in the shooting; Now, despite everything, he was getting what he wanted. deserved. But even though Keefe has spoken out for years, I now believe a guilty verdict in the November trial is far from guaranteed.

Keefe describes in detail in his memoir Compton Street Legend what happened the night Pac was shot, according to The U. S. Sun.

He claimed that rapper Diddy had given him a million dollars to “take care of” Tupac and Suge Knight. When he and his Crip gangsters ran into the two men driving near the Las Vegas Strip on Sept. 7, 1996, Keefe said. he passed the gun to his nephew Orlando “Bathrough Lane” Anderson, who took the photo. Keefe said that if Pac had been by his side, “I would have had a lot of fun. “

Keefe has made those claims many times over the years, on YouTube channels, in documentaries and even in taped confessions to police, when he thought he might not be prosecuted. In a confession to the Los Angeles police, Keefe seemed absolutely uncaring when he told detectives: “We didn’t care. . . [Tupac’s] ambulance parked right here, next to us. ” This shit is as funny as a motherfucker.

The Sun has been publishing articles about Keefe’s confessed involvement in the crime since 2018.

I sent links to his confession to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, asking them why this guy hadn’t been arrested yet. They thanked me for the information but told me they might not comment because the case was still active. From the outside, it appeared that no action was being taken.  

We spoke with former detectives involved in the case and documentary filmmakers who were incredibly frustrated by the lack of progress in the case.   We even released a statement from former LAPD detective Greg Kading, who had investigated the murders, urging Las Vegas to arrest Keefe in 2020.

For years, the case seemed to have been forgotten, ignored, and unsolved.  

But finally, in the summer of 2023, our resources told us that there had been massive progress on the matter. A secret grand jury would be held to determine whether or not Keefe deserved to be indicted. I had doubts at first, but around the same time, in July, an area in Henderson, Nevada, related to Keefe, was raided as part of the Tupac investigation.  

Things are heating up.

Later that summer, behind closed doors, jurors heard hours of testimony from former police officers, detectives and coroners involved in the Tupac case, as well as gangsters and affiliates of Keefe and Pac at the time. They were shown graphic photographs of Tupac’s bullet-riddled body. body. After days of testing, they made the decision that there was enough evidence to prosecute Keefe.  

Once the secret documents were released, I reviewed the transcripts. While interesting, many witnesses told stories they had heard firsthand. None of the prosecution’s witnesses were transparent about who shot Pac. One witness, Devonta Lee, claimed it was another gangster named Big Dre. who shot, not Orlando. Maybe things weren’t as transparent as I first thought.

Keefe was arrested on September 30, 2023, at his home. Body camera footage we received at the scene showed Keefe bluffing to police even while handcuffed in the back of a police vehicle, telling officers he was involved in “the most wonderful business in the history of Las Vegas. “

After Keefe’s court appearances, it turns out that he has lost much of that bravery and is now an unhappy and lonely figure.

Suffering from physical disorders due to cancer, he struggles to cope with the brutalities of the criminal life and cannot raise enough coins to pay his bail. He feels that some of his former Southside Crip affiliates – men to whom he had passed wads of coins in his glory days – have just abandoned him.

Keefe is now desperate to get out of prison, and his defense is based on his claim that he absolutely fabricated his involvement in Tupac’s murder for fame and money. He saw that other people benefited from the murder, so he thought he would too. He believes his confession to police is a lie — he made it up because he reached a plea deal and thought it would help him get rid of his other charges.  

And, according to his attorney Carl Arnold, he wasn’t even in Las Vegas the night of the shooting.   Arnold remains convinced that he will see his consumer loose and that his secret weapon may simply be former Death Row Records boss Suge.  

As the only other user still alive in both cars, Suge, recently criminally prosecuted for a fatal hit-and-run, would be a key witness. Suge is the only user still alive who knows what happened: he saw the shooter. Although he said he would not testify at the November trial, Suge claimed in an interview with TMZ from Criminal that Orlando was not the shooter, once he cast doubt on the story again. Keefe Events.  

Keefe and his attorney hope to replace his brain and convince him to testify for the defense. And Suge intends to blow up the prosecution’s case.

And if Keefe goes free, will there ever be justice for Pac? 

Last June, Davis’ defense attorney fought to get Judge Carli Kierny to validate the defendant’s $112,500 bail so he could be released and placed under space arrest pending trial.

However, Kierny ruled that Davis failed to prove that he received his bond through legal sources.

Music manager Cash Jones, who works at Wack100, gave the impression of appearing on a video conference in court and showed that he paid the bail premium for Davis as a “gift. “

Jones claimed there was no contract or monetary agreement with Davis in exchange for his bailout.

But prosecutors quashed the charges when they aired a YouTube interview with Jones and podcaster VladTV, in which he would rescue Davis to make a television series about his life.

Prosecutors also relayed prison phone calls between Davis and Jones, in which they were overheard discussing a plea deal.

“You have to know that this can prepare you for the rest of your life,” Jones was heard saying on the call.

“I’ll take you out and then we’ll sit down and communicate about all of this. “

Judge Kierny will deny Davis’ request for bail.

“While Mr. Jones stated that he was distancing himself from Mr. Davis because Mr. Davis is fighting cancer and is a pillar of the community, his previous interview with VladTV suggested some other reason,” the judge wrote in his decision.

Davis has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder.

He will be tried for Tupac’s murder on November 4.

Davis faces life in prison if convicted.

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