Overview
- The criminal trial of Duane “Keffe D” Davis is underway this week in Clark County with jurors seated and prosecutors playing hours of Davis’s 2008 police interview and MGM Grand surveillance video as key exhibits.
- Prosecutors say the shooting was revenge for a fistfight at the MGM Grand and argue that Davis obtained a gun, helped hunt down Tupac and handed the weapon into the back seat before someone opened fire.
- On recorded statements played for the jury, Davis described being in the white Cadillac, initially holding a gun, passing it toward the back seat, and identifying Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson as the person who fired.
- The case lacks a recovered gun or the suspect Cadillac and three other men believed to have been in the vehicle are dead, forcing the prosecution to build its case largely from Davis’s prior interviews, a 2019 memoir and reluctant witnesses.
- The defense says Davis fabricated or exaggerated stories for attention and money, and the trial’s outcome will hinge on jurors’ assessments of credibility in a case that may reshape public closure on a long-unsolved, high-profile killing.