Ex-gang boss Duane "Keffe D" Davis sentenced for orchestrating Tupac Shakur's murder | BBC News

Let's start with some breaking news because [music] 30 years after Tupac Shakur's murder, the man convicted of organizing the killing has been sentenced. Duane Davis, known as Keffe D, was sentenced in a court in Las Vegas. >> Shakur was 25 when he was killed in a shooting in Los Angeles at the height of

his career as one of rap's most influential voices. He sold more than 75 million records worldwide. Well, our LA correspondent Shima Olio is following developments from California for us. Um and Shima Tupac Shakur, such a legend uh within the music industry and so many questions about his death, but uh those questions now answered and his killer in prison

for a very long time. >> Well, in the last few moments, we have gotten um a a sentencing now, something that Tupac Shakur's family has been waiting for 30 years for because as you say, Tupac Shakur was 25 at the height of his career when he was shot in Las Vegas 30 years ago in 1996 and today

Duane Keefe D Davis will face uh 40 years to life in prison for the role that he played in his murder. Remember that uh Keefe D was not accused of pulling the trigger, but the jury has found him guilty of organizing, of supplying the gun, and putting that killing in motion. I must say having

followed this case and followed this trial throughout um the the 9 days that it it went on in August. And today watching the impact statement from Tupac's sister, Set Set Shakur, and his brother Mopreme, who I spoke to before um before the trial, you do get the raw emotion of what that means to them. Set

uh, stood in front of the judge and spoke about a brother that looked out for her, a brother who God entrusted to take care of her as she put it, a wonderful person, a poet, an actor, an artist who said he could have done great work had he been alive today. She spoke about her mother, a female