{"id":862151,"date":"2026-08-18T05:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T05:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/862151\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T05:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T05:26:15","slug":"alleged-tupac-shakur-killers-murder-trial-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/862151\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged Tupac Shakur Killer’s Murder Trial Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The murder trial for alleged\u00a0Tupac Shakur<\/a>\u00a0killer\u00a0Duane “Keefe D” Davis<\/a> began Monday … and the much-anticipated opening arguments were 30 years in the making.<\/p>\n

The trial’s taking place in a Nevada courtroom almost exactly 30 years after Tupac was gunned down near the Las Vegas Strip.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors say Keefe planned the murder and produced the gun used to kill Tupac — though they say he’s not the man who fired the fatal shot.<\/p>\n

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He has pleaded not guilty to all charges against him.<\/p>\n

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Keefe D regularly bragged about his alleged involvement with the murder in the years after the slaying … and he was finally arrested by authorities in 2023. He’s been locked up in the Clark County Detention Center ever since.<\/p>\n

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If convicted, Keefe faces life in prison … which doesn’t scare him<\/a> because he’s been in and out of jail for years. That said, we’re also told he’d rather not spend his remaining days in prison.<\/p>\n

One source told us, “Prison is a dangerous place and horrible things happen there, especially when you’re older.” Keefe is 64.<\/p>\n

According to the Associated Press<\/a>, the jury of 12 and 4 alternates was chosen from a pool of over 100 prospective jurors … who were asked about their favorite books and movies, whether they had listened to Tupac’s music, and whether they had strong feelings about gangs.<\/p>\n

Tupac was 25 when he was killed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The murder trial for alleged\u00a0Tupac Shakur\u00a0killer\u00a0Duane “Keefe D” Davis began Monday … and the much-anticipated opening arguments were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":862152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-862151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}