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The Guardian - US
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Dani Anguiano and Nick Robins-Early

Thirty years of waiting, a memoir and a trial: conviction in Tupac Shakur killing brings closure

Tupac Shakur.
Tupac Shakur. Photograph: Eli Reed/Columbia/Kobal/Shutterstock

Thirty years after the killing of Tupac Shakur, conspiracy theories and rumors about the perpetrator’s identity, one man has now been held criminally responsible for the rap icon’s death.

A Las Vegas jury convicted Duane “Keffe D” Davis, a 63-year-old former South Side Compton Crips gang leader, of murder for his role in the drive-by shooting. During the two-week-long trial, prosecutors argued Davis was the “on-the-ground, on-site commander of the effort to kill Tupac” and had sought revenge after the musician was involved in a fight with his nephew, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson.

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