Ex-gang leader’s account of Tupac Shakur killing is fiction, defence says

Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis, who is accused of orchestrating the 1996 killing of hip-hop star Tupac Shakur (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)

The defence lawyer representing a former Los Angeles gang leader accused of killing hip-hop music star Tupac Shakur in 1996 in Las Vegas has said his client’s accounts of the killing are fiction and prosecutors lack key evidence to obtain a murder conviction.

“He himself is giving different stories,” lawyer Carl Arnold told reporters outside a courtroom following a brief status check with his client, Duane “Keffe D” Davis, in front of a Nevada judge. His trial is scheduled for November 4.