Where is Duane 'Keffe D' Davis being held? Tupac Shakur's alleged killer pleads not guilty to 1996 shooting
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA: Keith 'Keffe D' Davis also known as Keefe Davis who is being held at Clark County Detention Centre pleaded not guilty to the murder of Tupac Shakur during an arraignment on Thursday, November 2.
The former Southern California street gang leader is the only person still alive who was in the car from which gunshots were fired to kill the rapper in 1996 in Las Vegas.
Davis, who allegedly orchestrated the drive-by shooting, is also the only person to be charged with a crime in the murder, reports The Sun.
Duane 'Keffe D' Davis was arrested 27 years after Tupac Shakur's murder
Davis, who was represented in court by special public defenders Charles Cano and Robert Arroyo on Thursday, November 2, answered Clark County District Judge Tierra Jones' questions before he entered his plea.
The former gang leader from Compton, California, told the judge that he attended a year in college and was not under the influence of any drugs, alcohol, and medication.
The 60-year-old man who was arrested on September 29, 27 years after Shakur's death said he understood that he had been charged with murder, reported Daily Mail.
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He is being held in jail without bail and declined from the detention center to speak with The Associated Press.
Davis did not testify before the grand jury in the indictment that accused Davis of providing someone with a gun in the back seat of a Cadillac before Shakur was shot and rap music mogul Marion 'Suge' Knight was injured.
On September 13, six days later, Shakur died of cardiac arrest at the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada.
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Was Tupac Shakur's fatal shooting gang-related?
The shooter in the tragic incident has never been identified. It is suspected that the shooting was gang-related and the rapper was associated with the Bloods street gang.
On the night of the shooting, the music artist had engaged in a fight with Orlando Anderson following a boxing match that featured Mike Tyson and Bruce Seldon.
In his memoir 'Compton Street Legends' Davis claimed that he is one of the "three living eyewitnesses” to Shakur's killing and identified his nephew Orlando Anderson as the individual behind the shooting.
However, Anderson, who was part of the South Side Compton Crips gang, denied being involved in the Grammy-winning rapper's death.
At the age of 23, Anderson died following another gangland shooting, two years after Shakur's death, according to the New York Post.