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The video transcript reports the historic and shocking verdict where Dwayne Keith Davis, known as Keefe D, was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Tupac Shakur nearly thirty years after the crime occurred. The jury in Las Vegas returned a guilty verdict on August 31st, convicting the 63-year-old defendant of using a deadly weapon with the intent to promote or assist a criminal gang. Prosecutors did not claim that Davis personally fired the fatal shots during the September 1996 drive-by shooting; instead, they argued that he was the "shot caller" who orchestrated the attack and handed the murder weapon to his nephew, Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson. This conviction marks the first legal resolution in connection with one of the most notorious unsolved killings in music history, ending a decades-long mystery surrounding Tupac's death.
The defense strategy faced significant challenges, particularly regarding the credibility of Keefe D and the limited number of witnesses called to testify on his behalf. Over the course of the trial, the jury heard testimony from two dozen prosecution witnesses compared to only three for the defense, and notably, Keefe D did not take the stand to testify in his own defense. The prosecution utilized Keefe D's own past police interviews and his published book to build their case, arguing that he had admitted to orchestrating the shooting as retaliation after Tupac and his entourage got into a fight with Davis's nephew earlier that night. Despite the defendant's age and the passage of time, the jury was convinced by the circumstantial evidence and the narrative presented by prosecutors, leading to a unanimous decision that left little room for doubt in the minds of the jurors.
Following the verdict, Keefe D expressed his intention to appeal the ruling, though he faces a potential maximum sentence of life in prison given that the death penalty is not applicable in this jurisdiction. The transcript highlights the emotional and legal fallout, noting that his attorney, Michael Staff, will likely be labeled as the lawyer who lost the case and may struggle to find future clients. The video discusses the irony that Keefe D's own book and interviews, which he used to tell his story for years, ultimately became key evidence against him. As the jury deliberated quickly, returning with a verdict that shocked many observers who had hoped for an acquittal due to the lack of direct physical evidence like a gun or car linking him directly to the crime scene, the case has now moved into the appeals process where Davis must wait while facing the prospect of spending the remainder of his life in prison.
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>> the verdict reads as follows. We the
jury in the book entitled case find the
defendant Dwayne Keith Davis as follows.
Count one murder with use of a deadly
weapon. Guilty of first-degree murder
with use of a deadly weapon dated this
31st day of August 2026. Ladies and
gentlemen of the jury, is this your
verdict as read? So say you one, so say
you all.
>> Yes. Yes.
>> Wow. Wow. There it is, guys. murder in
the first degree. Uh they they got it,
man. Kephy D. Um listen, man. I don't
know what's going on, man. I listen.
I was outside. I didn't realize it that
had happened, man. I've been out working
in the yard. Come to find out, they done
found Kefi D guilty of Tupac's murder 30
years later. Guys, y'all got to help me
with this one. I thought for sure he was
doing better. I thought for sure show he
was doing a little bit better than what
you know what most because they didn't
really show much evidence but they
showed enough evidently they felt good
about it. They gave him first-degree
murder and uh it says a Las Vegas jury
had found Dwayne and they didn't take
long. Dwayne uh KiD Davis guilty of
murder in the first degree in the death
of Tupac Core. The jury returned it
verdict Monday uh convicting uh Davis of
murder with the use of a deadly weapon
with the intent to promote further or
assist a criminal gang. The 63year-old
now faces a possible maximum sentence of
life in prison. Although he already made
it clear to the judge he plans to appeal
the verdict. Prosecutors never claimed
David fired the fatal shots during the
September 1996 driveby shooting.
Instead, they argued he was the shot
caller. He was the shot caller who
handed the murder weapon to the gunman
believed to have been his nephew,
Orlando Baby Lane Anderson, on another
man when another man was riding in the
back seat. The verdict marks the first
conviction in connection with Tupac's
murder, one of the most notorious
unsolved killings in music history. And
that's what it was all about.
Prosecutors never accused Keefe D of
pulling the trigger himself. Instead,
they argued he orchestrated the Las
Vegas shooting as a retaliation after
Tupac had a and his entourage got into a
fight with Kefid D's nephew earlier that
night. They pointed jurors to Keid D's
own police interviews. So, Keid D pretty
much caused his own damn problem. And I
hate that because at the end of the day,
uh, and like I said, if he done it,
whatever. But to go in here and write a
book and tell your own story and put it
in these, uh, in this way is just crazy
to me. I don't I I I just don't get it.
You know, you think about it, it's like,
whoa, I didn't know that this would
happen. It's like, whoa, 30 years later,
Kei D, you did this to yourself. Now you
got to sit in that room and think about
this. All these interviews you done. Now
you got to are you going you didn't
speak during the trial. Are you going
you did speak and say that they
threatened your family? You did. That
was I don't even know if that was a good
move for you to even do that. But you
did say oh they threatened my family.
And I'm like whoa. Who threatened your
family? You know the the prosecutor got
people going to my family allegedly and
doing. I'm like what?
Be quiet man. Them folks is watching.
The jurors are watching. Your jurors is
watching you. Your jurors is watching
you. That one black man though that was
on the jury.
He got you. The one you had, it was 10
women, one one black man, and I don't
and and and I don't know what that other
one was. It had to be a white guy or
some or Indian or something. But that
one juror,
that black man, I thought you had a
shot. I really did. It was one black
juror and I thought you had a shot. But
he evidently didn't see no way he could
go ahead and get you out of this either.
Boy, that's cold lick right there. And
you had You almost had it. You almost
got him, man. It's crazy. I'm telling
you now, boy. Stick a fork in him cuz
he's done. Stick a fork in him cuz he's
done. It's over. It happened just that
fast. And we never seen it coming. You
know, we I thought maybe he could have
got out of it 30 years later. The
evidence is not clear.
But I mean he did write a book.
He
he wrote a book.
He he he stood on 10 toes down on what
he's what what what had happened. Told
about baby lang. He did all this telling
and now he has to face the music. Will
they give this man life sentence? He's
63 years old. Will they give Kefi D
life? That's something to think about,
man. Hell, he done almost lived his
whole life. 63 is tough to be having to
go to prison. They going to What's up,
OG? What's going on, OG? What's up, old
school? That's how they going to be
coming at him. What's going down, old
school? Oh, what up, school? Like, what?
Yeah, school. What's up, baby? You want
them You want You ain't going to eat
your You ain't going to eat your uh Let
me get that off your plate, school.
Yeah. Count time, school. Get up out
that bed. You got to stand up for count
time. Hey, I don't give a damn if you're
150. They don't care how old he is on
count time. So this and I this is is not
Keith D first rodeo either. So QVD um
he'll be uh sitting in there um waiting
on his appeal. He didn't really have
much money to get out on a bunch. So I
don't know how fast who's going to
represent him. I know this lawyer done
with it. Um I think this hurt his
career. You took Kei D in there and lost
with Keith D. They won't even Nobody
want you on their case no more. You got
this long hair looking like Lionel
Richie. I'd have been saying that the
whole trial. Tattoos on your hand. It's
not appealing. And now you running
around here with a afro with tattoos
with a man beside you killed Tupac.
This is crazy work. Crazy work. Now he's
been found guilty. You won't help him no
more. You already exhausted all your
resources. He He going to have to find
somebody to help him now because the
appeal thing, that's a different tier.
Now you going to move on about your
business. I get it.
But you got your five minutes of fame.
Everybody know who you are now. Now you
are the guy that lost the case. Kei D
case. You You're that lawyer. Oh yeah.
That's Oh yeah. Yeah. That's old boy.
Yeah. Yeah. He the one had Kiffy D. You
ain't going Yeah. Yeah. I wouldn't use
him. He couldn't even get Kev D off.
Hell. It happened 30 years ago and he
still didn't know evidence come in. He
still couldn't get the man free. He
still couldn't get the man be shown
innocent. And he had one black juror.
That's how this thing going to be.
That's going to be the story of this
this lawyer right here. Let me read some
a little bit more from TMZ. I think TMZ
the one I'm reading from today.
Damn TMZ showing up cuz on it have
happened a few hours back. It says his
attorney meanwhile here we go. His
attorney meanwhile argued KVD's
admission were nothing more than tail
tall tales telling jurors his clients
were full of crap and that and he looked
like he really had it going on. He
walking around facade around like he
understand what the business is. He says
he said they the clients are full of
crap and that's why he was never charged
for decades. That was all he said. He
didn't he didn't call people up. He
didn't try to defend KVD or none of that
stuff. They didn't have much of a damn
argument that he just throwed them to
the wolves. look like.
Over the course of the trial, jurors
heard testimony from two dozen
prosecution witnesses and just three
defense witnesses. That's your problem
right there. Three defense witnesses.
Kev D. Listen, not testified in his own.
He He didn't even testify in his own
defense. Three W. That's all he had were
three. The guilty verdict marks the
first conviction connection with Tupac's
murder. Now, we know already. Ain't
nobody knew that Tupac uh uh we never
would have thought. We never would have
thought that we'd have seen it coming
this way. But at the end of the day, you
got to realize, man, KD did a lot of
campaigning on his own, guys. Let's be
real. No, he didn't pull the trigger.
But you go write books, you go do
interviews, you over here, they that
little money that Blad was giving you
for them interviews wasn't worth it, now
was it?
You go back in that sale, you think
about that. that it wasn't worth it.
Wasn't worth it at all. I wouldn't I I
definitely wouldn't have let it I
wouldn't let it get down on me. No. No
way. No way. Jose
had Tupac uh uh Shakur murder trial
verdict. Ke found guilty nearly 30 years
later. September 7th. It ain't even a
week away. Would have been 30 years
exactly.
September the 7th. Um
that's when the the shooting happened.
Seven days before seven days earlier
is only 7 days from being 30 years exa
to an exactor when that shot when the
shooting happened in Las Vegas and they
got him here today on the 31st. They
wasn't going to let it go in they not
they going home. They sick of they said
this weekend we going to be out of here.
We tired of being up here with Kefi D.
by the time the fourth hit uh Friday,
we'll all be out of here by the time we
can get our home this week. And that
black guy, he probably got some fruits
and stuff he need to go water. He was
going to get he wasn't he wasn't about
to stay in there. So I can I blame him?
Ke man, you wrote books, man.
Keith D, man, you did this. You did a
whole bunch of this on your own, buddy.
Whole bunch of Nobody ain't know
nothing. You caused your own storm on
this one. I got to let you know that
y'all got to get in the comments. Let me
know. Am I Am I way off on this one? Cuz
I can tell you right now, OG thought he
going to get off. And I me and OG going
to talk about a little later on. We
going to catch up. But I'm telling you
right now,
cuz I got to check him about it cuz he
Oh yeah, he going to get off, man. They
didn't have no evidence. I got you on I
got you saying that, OG. So there there
it is right there. And I I I guarantee
you I bet you I bet you a hund times
over that they gonna try to give that
boy life. They they might not. I don't
know, man. Teasing him. 30 years is
teasing him.
30 years is teasing him.
I guarantee you that 30 years is teasing
him.
That's teasing him. That's pretty much
telling him it's going to be okay. 30
years, they might as well going to give
him the damn death penalty. Well, not
the death penalty, but at least give him
life. You I don't think this car up to
death penalty. That's a Texas thing. We
only do that. We the only ones do that
that right there.
But any rate, guys, make sure you guys
like, subscribe to the channel, guys.
Let me know what y'all think about KVD
being found guilty. I had to jump on
here right quick cuz I was I was man one
of my partner called me said man they
done found KD guilty. I thought it was
going to come tomorrow or something but
today we have we have got a verdict and
I'll let you guys listen to it again cuz
it's quite disturbing when you hear
listen to this.
>> The verdict reads as follows. We the
jury in the both entitled case find the
defendant Dwayne Keith Davis as follows.
Count one murder with use of a deadly
weapon. Guilty of first-degree murder
with use of a deadly weapon. dated this
31st date of August 2026. Ladies and
gentlemen of the jury, is this your
verdict? As read, so say you. One, so
say you all.
>> Wow. So Keith D is found guilty. He's
guilty. Basically, they the uh I got OG
fin on the phone, but they found him
guilty uh first degree 30 years later.
OG, you there?
They they found him guilty
>> 30 years later. They found him first
degree. I just I just You You're not
listening.
He's guilty.
He's guilty as hell. You was the one
that thought he wasn't going to be
guilty. I told you they were going to
find him guilty.
>> I told you they were going to find him
guilty.
>> Oh, YOU THE SAME MOTHER.
>> I TOLD YOU THEY were going to find him
guilty. He wasn't going to get out of
it. And I told you that
>> you ain't told. I told you if he didn't
do a snow I ain't f no guilt.
>> Listen at this. I'll let you hear it
again. I I'm only playing this 4G cuz he
came in hot but he came in late. I know
y'all want
>> Here you go. Listen at this.
>> The verdict reads as follows. We the
jury of the book entitled case find the
defendant Dwayne Keith Davis as follows.
Count one murder with use of a deadly
weapon. Guilty of first-degree murder
with use of a deadly weapon. dated this
31st date of August 2026. Ladies and
gentlemen of the jury, is this your
verdict? As read, so say you. One, so
say you all.
>> Yes.
>> We will be at home this weekend cooking
barbecue sandwiches. That one black
juror. That one black juror. You wrong,
dog. You could have let you could have
hung it.
>> What? What did you think?
>> What did you think, OG? What? You
thought he was going to get away? This
guy sitting here. This guy, what's his
lawyer name? the one you so fond of who
will not get another case.
>> Michael Staff.
>> Michael Staff is done. He'll be labeled
as the guy that lost the case for Kefi
D.
>> Yes.
>> And ain't no way ain't no way in hell
they find him guilty on circumstantial
evidence.
>> They found him count one first degree,
man.
>> No gun, no car, no pictures. Absolutely.
>> No freedom. Put that in there, too. and
old freedom.
Oh,
>> I DON'T HOLLER NO OLD KP.
OH, KPD.
>> You should have done a snowfall, bro. I
told you
>> you started off saying that, but then
you jumped in the mill and act like he
might get away, but you started off
right.
>> Hey, wait. HE'S TRIED TO PLAY GANGSTER.
HE WAS GOING HE TRIED to do a sh. He
ain't gonna do no talking. But man, you
should you should have got on that
stand.
He told him he will be appealing it.
>> Yeah, he will. And he'll be old as
Methusm waiting for appeal.
>> Well, he got to go to the big house for
this one. He'll be labeled as the guy
that killed Tupac. But nobody cares cuz
all the people locked up dead that knew
about it.
>> That's crazy. I didn't expect this.
>> Well, you can expect it cuz that's
exactly what it is. It happening. It's
happening in real. And wait, that's less
than six hours.
>> They didn't even wait. They didn't go to
the back. I heard they just wrote a note
right there.
>> Wrote a note walking in the hall. They
did a Carmelo Anthony on that man.
>> They just wrote a note before they could
get y'all. We ready? What? We ready?
>> Y'all ain't go to the back. No, we don't
need to. We already talked about it.
>> I couldn't believe that. I I can't
believe that man.
>> Well, believe it OG cuz it's happening.
Like Trump said, THIS IS FAKE NEWS.
>> NO, it ain't. It ain't. It ain't. That
boy sitting there with that afro, he
guilty as hell. Him, man, he even all of
them just sitting there, you know, he
got his hands in and over his other arm.
He's standing in the Mason uh stands,
but that didn't help him. The little
stance he had.
>> When they find him good, did he fall
off?
>> No, he stood strong.
He stood firm.
>> Wasn't no time to say strong now. He
should have fell like a baby.
Oh gee. When they what? He gonna fall
out when they give him his time. They
just called him guilty today.
>> That's too late to fall out now. I fell
out right in front of them jewelry boy.
>> Oh gee. How much time do you think they
going to give him now?
>> How much time do you think they gonna
give him?
>> I don't even want to speculate. I Hey, I
think
I think well this is what I believe
looking at the judge looking at looking
like
>> oh CUZ HE GONNA GET HE GET THE oh he get
the judge get the one to make the CHOICE
>> RIGHT
>> OH YEAH CUZ REMEMBER when he first when
it first happened you said that fool
them got the jud
>> I don't want the jury I want the judge
the judge is gonna give him since he was
found guilty by a jury of his peers the
judge is gonna give him law prescribed
How much is that? How much time?
>> 25 ALIKE.
>> OH NO, MAN. HE AIN'T He's 63. Oh no,
that's too much time, man. He going to
look at the judge and say, "Honor, y I
can't do that much time." And she going
to look back at him and she going to
say, "Don't worry, but just do what you
can. Don't worry about the rest."
>> That's That's what they tell him in
Texas. Do do what you can.
do what you can and let God do the rest.
>> Wow. Wow. Well, guys, listen. When I
looked at this and I seen it, I can't
believe this. We went out there. We we
we tried to figure out what was going on
with Keith and D. Listen, brother. You
should have wrote that damn book, man.
>> You calling me? I'm in my backyard
trying to kill some weeds. And they done
killed Ke.
>> They done knocked my boy Kev D all the
way off the map, man. And I thought for
sure Kefa D would have been able to at
least, you know, he can't even, you
know, hey man, Tupac looking at him now,
roll over his grave, say, "God, we
finally got us one." He wrote a book and
everything. Vlad Vlad, they showed Vlad
video in there. This ought to teach
y'all a lesson, man. Uh,
>> see, now that's one of the things that
got him right there. The jury looking at
this. If we let this in the ground, he
gonna write another book or he gonna get
up and go. We sucking him in these damn
books
>> and these interviews on the podcast. We
don't want to see him no more with them
glasses on sitting up there in that seat
talking about all the dialogue. Can I
say this? Uh, can I do that? We don't
want to see that no more. We want him to
go away and next thing you know
about he talked about baby lane was just
a kid. Now he just a senior citizen
getting a gas chamber.
>> Man, I don't think he gonna get the gas
chamber, but he'll get life, man.
Anything life in 15 years is life. 15,
20 years.
>> Like at 65, he in bad health anyway.
Two years and 15 days is life to him.
>> It might be better though. It might be
helping him in there though. I ain't
going to lie to you cuz he old school.
What up school? That what they going to
say when they see what up school? It's
count time. Got to get up out that bunk
school. Huh?
When they feeding him up in there, he
going to have all he going to have
valley fever. He'll be dead in 18
months.
>> No, he won't. Don't you dare say that,
OG.
You won't be dead no 18 months.
>> Okay. No,
>> he'll be un alive in 18 months.
>> OG, first of all, you've been wrong on
the fact that you did say he better pull
a snowball. Even
>> I tell you I I but I looked at his
attorney and the way his attorney was
getting I mean his attorney had a good f
I mean his
>> I I don't see what the jury saw.
>> He lost. That's what they saw. They saw
KPD sitting in there. They saw a book.
That's what they saw. Since you don't
know one, let me remind you what they
seen. They seen an interview. They seen
a book. They seen all type of stuff that
says I done it.
>> To your own words.
>> Yeah. They even seen him when they
picked him up. You know why they picking
me up? You know why they picking me up?
They pick me up because of that stuff
that happened. You remember the parking
thing? Yeah. He talking to police like
that. you is crazy. They going to
give you life, Shut up.
He didn't shut up, guys. So Dwayne Keepy
D. Davis is found guilty tonight.
No, Dwayne Davis is found guilty.
>> Dwayne is no more. Keith Ke is no more.
Damn. Guys, make sure you like,
subscribe to the channel. OG came in hot
at the end. OG says uh he knew he should
better pull a snowfall, but it's too
late now. Ke found guilty. Get in the
comments. Let me know what y'all think.
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