Richard Bond, the director of a stunning new documentary “Tupac: Cowl Up” (out there on XUMO), and the producer of FOUR (4) different documentaries concerning the killing of the late rap star, additionally has a small YouTube “Dwell” present on the air two instances every week. The present serves as an open dialogue with the director, whose work on the 26-year investigation of the homicides has made him a continuously invited Topic Matter Skilled by Fox, A&E, Discovery Channel, The Historical past Channel, and a whole lot of different retailers. He makes use of the unadvertised YouTube channel “The Tupac Assassination Channel” and the brand new “Tupac Cowl Up channel to instantly attain out to his hardcore base.
Yesterday(October 18), Bond had an sudden caller into the present. The caller was Duane Keith Davis, Jr., the son of the person alleged to have murdered rap star Tupac Shakur, Duane “Keefe D” Davis. Lately, dozens of tabloid-level articles have described secondhand accounts as they pertain to Mr. Davis and his preparations for his trial in March of 2025. Davis himself has finished no interviews since his arrest over a yr in the past. Other than a periodic courtroom look concerning bail or a random courtroom submitting, the world has had no perception into what is occurring on the earth of the person charged with one of the crucial infamous and notorious crimes in fashionable American historical past.
Not anymore. “Keefe-D’s” son, Duane Keith, Jr., in an unique interview with Bond- largely in response to having watched the Xumo Play docuseries “Tupac: Cowl Up”- reached out to Bond to present the world an replace on his dad, and to straighten out some dangerous details, and introduce a couple of new ones.
One such rumor put out by the YouTube channel belonging to the previous head of Dying Row Data safety was that Keefe-D had been crushed up in jail.
“He’s good. He’s good. He’s up in there getting fats from all that consuming…. it ain’t been no massive deal, no issues, no massive issues for him. what I’m saying? I do know many individuals declare that” stated Davis Jr., talking on the beating rumors.
“That was false. No one touched him. No, he didn’t get beat up by anyone. He had an issue with an officer over a mattress, an additional mattress…that’s all. (The alleged battle) that might’ve been another excuse if he would’ve reacted…They might use, they might use that towards him.”
Bond then turned the query to what was occurring within the case and the way little to nothing was popping out of the protection camp about how they deliberate to defend Davis. He requested Davis, Jr., when Davis’s subsequent courtroom date could be.
“It wasn’t one arising anytime quickly, however count on one to be arising as a result of we, going again to get him out of this case once more,” stated Davis Jr., talking on the just lately failed try to have “Keefe D” launched on $750,000 bail. The bail was just lately denied as a result of the Choose within the case didn’t imagine the story of rap artist “Wack 100” as to the place the bail cash could be coming from.
“We gonna do it the fitting approach and get him out. And, uh, so expect a courtroom date very quickly, I’d say within the subsequent couple weeks, actually.”
For his half, Keefe D has claimed he fabricated solely his “confessions” concerning the capturing for cash. Paperwork in “Tupac Cowl Up” are inclined to allege his “story” could have been a results of police coercion. This information could seemingly come as a shock to Vegas investigators, who’re nonetheless making an attempt to attach “Keefe D” to the crime by first establishing that he was in Vegas that night time. Thus far, all Vegas police have provide you with is a receipt from “Keefe D’s” now-wife Paula Clemons, who paid for a lodge room on the Monte Carlo.
Davis Jr. Spoke on that as nicely.
“I perceive what you simply stated, although, however I’m gonna simply cease you proper there,” stated Davis Jr.
“Okay. You may go (get) Courtroom paperwork from my mom and my father. They didn’t get married until 2000…2005, I imagine, in 2005. And, um, simply because my mom was on the market, what does that need to do with my father? What if she…it’s all a rumor, proper? That, uh, Mob James (A.Ok.A. James McDonald, a former affiliate of Dying Row Data), and uh, Reggie stated she was F—ing with Buntry!”
Buntry (A.Ok.A. Alton Mc Donald) was a Dying Row Data affiliate generally known as a “henchman.” Buntry was additionally the brother of “Mob James”, who made this declare. “Buntry” was the person within the now well-known MGM videotaped beating of further Vegas suspect Orlando Anderson- Keefe D’s nephew. Police declare that this MGM beating was the triggering occasion for Anderon and Keefe D to go get a gun and shoot at Tupac and Marion “Suge” Knight later that night.
“What if she was out right here with Buntry? No one is aware of…That’s all I’m saying,” stated Davis Jr.
“When it will get to the information, and many individuals hear it, like I stated, they are saying my mother was in mattress with him. Yeah. Then possibly they have been staying on the market, no matter. I don’t even know. What was it, the Monte Carlo? So what in the event that they have been staying on the Monte Carlo? As a result of Buntry was out right here. And so they stated that my mother was f***ing him. So ,what if that was the case?”
These collection of statements made by Davis Jr. spotlight the shortage of proof Vegas PD has been capable of provide you with in 27 years of investigation. They’re allegedly making an attempt to scrounge up any video footage from 1996 they will discover to attempt to place Keefe D in Vegas- a significant drawback for the prosecution. It additionally exhibits how shortly any proof collected could have a distinct rationalization.
Bond’s docuseries “Tupac Cowl Up” tells the story of an previous narrative that has been re-invented to indict Dwayne “Keefe-D” Davis in Clark County, Nevada. And he thinks all this media making an attempt to hyperlink Diddy to Tupac’s 1996 killing is vapor.
“They (Clark County Prosecutors) are operating with a stale and debunked hood legend that falls aside beneath its weight,” claims Bond.
“In 2012, an unreliable ex-L.A.P.D cop invented a narrative that stuffed in and re-enforced that previous narrative with the assistance of a person they have been, to some extent, presumably collaborating inside a revenue motive. The person who validated this concept after 14 years of by no means listening to this story before- Mr. Davis- appeared to be coerced into what he stated to Vegas Police. We present it within the documentary- “Stick with the Story,” one LAPD officer tells Davis- after Las Vegas Police go away the room so you’ll be able to “sleep nicely” at night time. It’s complete coercion. “
