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Special Episode: Keffe D Found Guilty in the 1996 Murder of Tupac Shakur · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Nearly 30 years after Tupac was gunned down on the
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  Speaker 1: Las Vegas Strip, a jury has finally delivered a verdict.
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  Speaker 1: The verdict reads as follows. We, the jury in the
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  Speaker 1: above entitled case, find the defendant Dwayne Keith Davis as follows.
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  Speaker 1: Count one murder with use of a deadly weapon. Guilty
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  Speaker 1: of first degree murder with use of a deadly weapon
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  Speaker 1: dated this 31st day of August 2026. A Las Vegas
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  Speaker 1: jury took only about three hours before finding Dwayne Kepede
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  Speaker 1: Davis guilty. First degree murder with a deadly weapon. For
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  Speaker 1: the first time, someone has been convicted in the killing
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  Speaker 1: of one of the most influential artists in hip hop history.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Mimi Brown. This is Front Page, and this is
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  Speaker 1: a special episode breaking down the verdict, what it means
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  Speaker 1: and what comes next. From the Black Effect Podcast Network,
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  Speaker 1: this is Front Page. Stay with me. Ladies and gentlemen
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  Speaker 1: of the jury, is this your verdict as read? So
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  Speaker 1: say you won. So say you all. Yes. A Las
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  Speaker 1: Vegas jury has found Dwayne Kifidi Davis guilty of first-degree
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  Speaker 1: murder with a deadly weapon. The jurors took only three
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  Speaker 1: hours to reach their verdict after a weeks-long trial. Davis
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  Speaker 1: is 63 years old. He is the only person ever
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  Speaker 1: charged in connection with a September 7th, 1996 drive-by shooting
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  Speaker 1: that killed Tupac. And now he is the first and
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  Speaker 1: only person ever convicted. What the state successfully argued and
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  Speaker 1: what the jury believed is that Davis provided the gun
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  Speaker 1: and that he ordered the attack. The chief deputy district
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  Speaker 1: attorney told jurors during closing arguments that Davis, quote, went
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  Speaker 1: hunting for Tupac and Death Row Records co-foundership night after
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  Speaker 1: Davis's nephew was beaten up at the MGM Grand earlier
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  Speaker 1: that same night. Now, the state's case rested heavily on
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  Speaker 1: Davis's own words. The state's case rested heavily on Davis's
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  Speaker 1: own words. His 2019 memoir, Compton Street Legend, his podcast appearances,
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  Speaker 1: his documentary interviews, and his 2008 recorded proffer session with
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  Speaker 1: a federal task force. In all of it, Davis put
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  Speaker 1: himself inside the white Cadillac the night Tupac was shot.
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  Speaker 1: He said there were four men in the car, himself,
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  Speaker 1: his nephew Orlando Baby Lane Anderson, another man named Parents
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  Speaker 1: Bubble Up Brown, and a fourth man named DeAndre Dre Smith.
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  Speaker 1: Davis said he was the one who brought the gun
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  Speaker 1: into the car, that he passed it to DeAndre Smith
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  Speaker 1: in the back seat, that Smith was too afraid to
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  Speaker 1: fire it, and that his nephew Orlando Anderson took the
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  Speaker 1: gun and pulled the trigger. Now, here's why that admission
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  Speaker 1: mattered so much for the state. Orlando Anderson, the man
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  Speaker 1: Davis says fired the shots, was killed in an unrelated
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  Speaker 1: Compton shooting in 1998. DeAndre Smith, the man Davis says
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  Speaker 1: was handed the gun first, was killed in Compton in 2004,
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  Speaker 1: and Terrence Brown died separately. That left Davis as the
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  Speaker 1: only living person prosecutors could put in that Cadillac. which
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  Speaker 1: is why the case had to be built on Davis's
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  Speaker 1: own words. He put himself in the car, he put
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  Speaker 1: himself in the middle of the plan, and a jury
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  Speaker 1: took him at his word. For the family of Tupac,
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  Speaker 1: this is a moment they've been waiting for for nearly
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  Speaker 1: 30 years. Members of Tupac's family were in the courtroom
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  Speaker 1: throughout the trial. They sat through autopsy photos of Tupac.
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  Speaker 1: They sat through the 2008 recording of Keefie D himself
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  Speaker 1: describing that night. Now Davis is looking at life in prison.
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  Speaker 1: His sentencing is scheduled for October 13th. His defense team
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  Speaker 1: has already indicated they intend to appeal. But for nearly
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  Speaker 1: 30 years, this case has sat unsolved. It became one
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  Speaker 1: of the most notorious unsolved killings in American music history.
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  Speaker 1: Davis was the last person who was alive in that Cadillac.
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  Speaker 1: And now for the first time, there's a conviction. Tupac
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  Speaker 1: Shakur was 25 years old when he died. He sold
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  Speaker 1: more than 75 million records worldwide. Justice when it comes
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  Speaker 1: sometimes takes decades, but it came today for Tupac. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Mimi Brown. That's your front page. This special episode was
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  Speaker 1: brought to you by the Black Effect Podcast Network.