Keefe D (real name Duane Davis) will remain in police custody as he waits for the 2Pac murder trial to commence in November.
After the former gang member was unable to prove that he gathered his bail money through legitimate means, Judge Carli Kierny denied his release on Wednesday (June 26).
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During an appearance in court this week, Wack 100 (real name Cash Jones) said he put up 15% of the $750,000 bond as a “gift” to help the suspect. Even though he claimed that the gesture wasn’t premised on any business dealings, prosecutors dug up a VladTV interview from early June in which the record executive talked about capitalizing on Davis’ story.
“It’s only $75,000,” he said in the clip. “I’ve been thinking about going to get him with the stipulations that I’ll do the series on it.”
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In his defense, the 44-year old told the Clark County court: “That’s what I said to Vlad, but Keefe D is already involved with somebody. I have no contracts with him. Before you go on Vlad, you have a discussion about what you’re going to talk about and what needs to be said to draw up views. There’s nothing about Vlad and nothing about YouTube that says that we’re being truthful about what we’re saying for entertainment.”
Further disputing the above claim, prosecutors then presented a recorded phone conversation in which Wack could be heard telling Keefe: “You got to remember, this shit can set you up for the rest of your life. I will get you out and then we’ll sit down and talk about all that.”
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The following day, Kierny officially shut down Davis’ request and ordered that he remain behind bars.
“While Mr. Jones testified he was bonding out Mr. Davis because Mr. Davis was fighting cancer and had been a pillar of the community, his previous interviews with VladTV suggested another motive,” she ruled, adding that proof of the bail money’s legitimacy was “insufficient.”
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The 61-year-old’s court-appointed attorneys petitioned the court for leniency earlier this year and claimed that his client “poses no danger” due to his deteriorating health.
A similar request was turned down in late 2023 after Davis was deemed “too dangerous” for bail as prosecutors pointed out that he was once a high-ranking member of the South Side Compton Crips. Furthermore, they also emphasized that the California native confessed to the rapper’s murder multiple times in the past.
Keefe D, who has been diagnosed with cancer, is the only person to ever be charged with Pac’s murder in Las Vegas over two and a half decades ago. Despite pleading not guilty, he has claimed that he orchestrated the shooting multiple times before, most notably in his 2019 book Compton Street Legend.
“The truthfulness of the content of the interviews was never verified,” Davis’ lawyer argued in his defense. “The book and interviews were done for entertainment purposes and to make money from a situation that [LAPD officers] and others had already profited [from].”
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Regarding the night of said shooting, Nevada prosecutors claim the legendary MC was involved in a brawl with the suspect’s late nephew Orlando Anderson, who is believed to have been in the car with Davis during the drive-by attack.
Tupac Shakur was tragically shot and killed back in 1996 after he attended a Mike Tyson fight. The multidisciplinary artist, who cemented his legacy in less than a decade, was only 25 years old at the time of his untimely passing.
