Tupac Shakur homicide suspect Keefe D shed tears behind bars, expressing frustration at his separation from his grandchildren whereas persevering with to disclaim any involvement within the 1996 homicide of the Hip-Hop icon.
“They bought no proof,” Keefe D insisted throughout an interview with ABC Information. “They know they don’t don’t have anything. Got here and positioned me out right here, and so they don’t don’t have any gun, no automobile, no Keefe D, no nothing. All people on video however Keefe D. That is incorrect.”
The 60-year-old, whose actual identify is Duane Keith Davis, was indicted and arrested on September 3, charged with orchestrating the notorious drive-by capturing of legendary rapper Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas almost three a long time in the past.
Prosecutors contend Keefe D, an alleged former chief of a Compton Crips faction, masterminded the assault—a declare he vigorously denies.
Keefe D grew to become emotional when discussing his household, notably the grandchildren he’s now separated from indefinitely.
“I believed I used to be gonna do school with my grandkids,” he added. “They’re fairly good athletes. Eighteen years later, I did every thing they requested me to do: get new associates, cease promoting medicine; I ended all that.”
Keefe D continued, ” I shouldn’t have mentioned nothing. Shouldn’t have mentioned nothing, and I’m harmless man, and God bought my again; God will see me via this.”
2Pac’s alleged killer Keefe D cries in jail for his freedom and being away from his grandkids. pic.twitter.com/rFkCgBwfKg
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Keefe D Claims Witnesses Will Clear Him In Tupac Shakur Dying
Regardless of beforehand admitting in interviews and his memoir Compton Avenue Legend that he was within the Cadillac concerned within the capturing, Keefe D argues that authorities don’t have any bodily proof inserting him on the crime scene or linking him to the homicide weapon or getaway car.
He insists he was at his Los Angeles house on the time of Shakur’s homicide, boasting “20-30” witnesses able to again up his alibi.
Keefe D additionally asserts he by no means authored and even learn his memoir, alleging that his co-author penned the guide independently, embellishing particulars for revenue.
He contends his previous confessions to detectives in 2008 and 2009, acknowledging involvement in Shakur’s killing, have been fabrications designed to guard associates in unrelated drug investigations.
Keefe D argues these statements have been shielded from prosecution below a “proffer settlement” and shouldn’t be used towards him now.
Additional complicating the case, Keefe D pointed fingers at former Dying Row Data safety head Reggie Wright Jr. He accuses Wright of orchestrating the crime. Wright, who was current on the membership Shakur deliberate to attend that night, adamantly denies all accusations.
Along with the homicide cost, Keefe D faces a separate battery accusation stemming from a jailhouse brawl with one other inmate. He has pleaded not responsible, arguing self-defense.
