By Belize Live News Staff: For nearly thirty years, nobody was convicted for killing Tupac Shakur.
The case sat as one of America’s most famous unsolved murders, generating conspiracy theories, documentaries and endless speculation. Shakur was 25 when he was shot in a Las Vegas drive by on September 7, 1996, at the peak of his career. He has sold more than 75 million records.
On Monday, a jury found Duane “Keffe D” Davis guilty of orchestrating it.
What made the conviction possible was Davis himself. He told police in a secret 2008 interview that he was in the car the shots came from. Then he wrote about it in a 2019 memoir. Then he talked about it in documentaries and on podcasts.
That publicity voided the protective agreement that had shielded him from charges.
“When you have the shot caller sitting shotgun when shots are fired, there’s no doubt he’s responsible,” prosecutor Binu Palal told the jury.
His lawyer argued it was bravado to sell books. The jury did not take long.
In Belize, Tupac never went anywhere. His music still carries on the radio, in buses, at parties and in yards across the country, decades after his death. Belizeans who were not born when he died know his songs by heart.
Sentencing is October 13.
What is your Tupac song?
