Judge denies release of ex-gang leader ahead of trial in Tupac Shakur killing

Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis, in court with his lawyer Carl Arnold (KM Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)

An ailing former gang leader from Los Angeles has been denied release from a Las Vegas jail ahead of his trial in the 1996 killing of music legend Tupac Shakur, despite a bid by a hip-hop music figure to underwrite his 750,000-dollar bail (£592,470).

A Nevada judge rejected house arrest with electronic monitoring for Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 61, saying she was not satisfied with assurances that Davis and his would-be benefactor — Cash “Wack 100” Jones — were not planning to reap profits from the sale of Davis’s life story.