00:00The man who quite literally called the shots that killed iconic rapper Tupac Shakur 30 years ago is
00:05going to prison for murder, possibly for the rest of his life. So who is Dwayne Keefe D. Davis?
00:11Davis, now 63 years old, is an ex-gang leader and author recently convicted of ordering the hit on
00:16Tupac back in 1996. At the time, Davis was a high-ranking member of the Los Angeles chapter
00:21of the Crips gang, the Southside Compton Crips. On the night of September 7, 1996, Davis orchestrated
00:27the drive-by shooting that killed Tupac and injured fellow hip-hop star Suge Knight.
00:31Earlier that night, following a boxing match in Las Vegas, members of the Crips got into a violent
00:36tussle with Tupac and his crew, who were part of rival gang The Bloods. One of the Crips members,
00:41who for lack of a better term, got his butt kicked during the fight, was Davis' nephew Orlando Anderson.
00:47Video surveillance captured Tupac and Suge specifically beating on him. A few hours later,
00:52Davis gave his nephew the directive to fire on Tupac and Suge Knight's car to end their lives.
00:57And if you're wondering why Anderson, the actual shooter that night, isn't the one convicted of
01:01murder, it's because he also died in a gang shootout two years after Tupac. Now, Davis,
01:07while he didn't pull the trigger, he was there in the white Cadillac where the shots were fired from.
01:13This is, by the way, according to the man himself. Remember when I said Davis was also an author?
01:18Well, in 2019, he released his memoir, Compton Street Legend. This book was basically one big
01:23gang life confessional detailing his years with the Crips and recounting the night Tupac was shot
01:29blow by blow. He wrote of the shootout, quote, as the rounds continued flying, I ducked down so that
01:35I wouldn't get hit. On top of penning his memoir, Davis also gave interviews over the years about
01:41the drive-by shooting to the point where Tupac's family had been asking for why he hadn't been
01:46arrested. It wouldn't be until 2023 that police would take Davis into custody for his connection to
01:51Tupac's murder. Now, at the time of his arrest, he was living in Henderson, Nevada, a suburb of
01:55Las Vegas. When investigators raided his house, they seized a computer, hard drives, magazine articles
02:00about Tupac's death, and a .40 caliber cartridge that is the same caliber of bullet as the four that
02:06fatally hit Tupac. So, yes, Davis wrote a book all about admitting his role in the murder of Tupac
02:12and pointed the finger at his nephew as the actual gunman. At trial, his attorneys tried to call the
02:18book a work of dramatic fiction, comparing it to the movie Titanic in terms of historical accuracy.
02:23The jury didn't buy it and convicted him of first-degree murder. There may have been something
02:28to that whole movie comparison, though. While behind bars, Davis has reportedly been shopping his memoir
02:33around Hollywood, trying to secure a possible film adaptation of the book. Now, Davis said he will
02:39appeal his guilty verdict, and the judge scheduled a sentencing for October 13th.
