Law&Crime Sidebar - Top 6 Pieces of Critical Evidence in Tupac Shakur’s Murder Investigation

Episode Date: October 6, 2023

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department released body camera footage showing the arrest of the man accused of ordering the murder of rapper Tupac Shakur. The court also revealed several pieces of evidence prosecutors showed to the grand jury as they sought to indict Duane “Keefe D” Davis for Tupac’s murder. The Law&Crime Network’s Angenette Levy breaks down six pieces of critical evidence the grand jury reviewed with veteran journalist Cathy Scott, who followed the case since the crime was reported.Jesse Weber: https://twitter.com/jessecordweberAngenette Levy: https://twitter.com/Angenette5LAW&CRIME SIDEBAR PRODUCTION:YouTube Management - Bobby SzokePodcasting - Sam GoldbergVideo Editing - Michael DeiningerScript Writing - Savannah WilliamsonGuest Booking - Alyssa Fisher & Diane KayeSocial Media Management - Vanessa BeinSTAY UP-TO-DATE WITH THE LAW&CRIME NETWORK:Watch Law&Crime Network on YouTubeTV: https://bit.ly/3td2e3yWhere To Watch Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3akxLK5Sign Up For Law&Crime's Daily Newsletter: https://bit.ly/LawandCrimeNewsletterRead Fascinating Articles From Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3td2IqoLAW&CRIME NETWORK SOCIAL MEDIA:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lawandcrime/Twitter: https://twitter.com/LawCrimeNetworkFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/lawandcrimeTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/lawandcrimenetworkTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lawandcrimeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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New body camera video of the arrest of D. Davis, the man accused of ordering the murder of rapper Tupac Shakur. I need to drink with some water, you'll let you get a drink. We're also getting a look at the evidence. Prosecutors showed the grand jury to indict Kifidi. My first shot, a kid, big boy in the head. I thought he was dead. Like, damn, he's dead.

And a reporter who's covered Tupac's murder weighs in on why it took 27 years to make an arrest, what the murder charge would have meant to the legendary rapper's mother. I think it would have been a big moment for her to see justice. Welcome to Law and Crime Sidebar podcast. I'm Ann Jeanette Levy. We are taking a look at six critical pieces of evidence that the grand jury in the case of D. Davis saw as they indicted him. And we're also getting a closer look at body camera footage from the arrest of Dwayne Keefee D. Davis a week ago. Keefee D was walking near his home when a Las Vegas Metro Police officer approached him last Friday. Take a look. Hey Keith, Metro Police. Come over here. Hey, Metro Police. Come over here, right? Thanks, buddy.

Come over here. Appreciate your cooperation, okay? I'm going to stand right here and in front of the car. Yep, we'll go and put it down. I know. Hang on. Put that down for a second, All right. You got another on you, right? Hooks. No. No. Do you have anything on you, sir?

No. Dirty, but one of them. Dirty? Okay, yeah. We'll get your drink. Hang on, all right? Just want to make sure you got no weapons on you or anything, okay? Is that place with you, sir?

Thank you. Put your palms together like you're clapping. I just want to make sure these cuffs can be all right on you. Officers also put leg shackles on the accused murderer. The other day when I was in Vegas for Kee-Feedee D's arraignment, which was continued. District Attorney Steve Wolfson said that Kee-D was talking with police after he was cuffed. Here's a little of what he said. All right, sir, go and have a seat right in here.

I'm going to help you out. Yep, just kind of put your butt up against there. Kick that foot up. You ready? I'm a pro, dude. I got it. All right. He said, I'm a pro.

He said, I'm a pro. All right. Kifi D says, I'm a pro because he knows the drill. He did time in federal prison on drug charges and was a higher up with the South Compton Crips. KifiD says he moved to Las Vegas 14 years ago. ago, he asked the officer a few questions as they drove to the jail. Are you all following me last night? Nope.

So why y'all didn't bring the media? Why would we read the media? Keefe D's arrest came after a nearly three-month-long grand jury investigation. Prosecutors showed the grand jury photos of the people in the white Cadillac with Kee-D that night. Along with Kee-Feedee-D, there was also the driver, Terrence Brown, and backseat passenger. DeAndre Big Dre Smith and Keeffi D's nephew, Orlando Anderson. Prosecutors also showed clips from interviews that Keefe D granted to the Art of Dialogue YouTube channel. Prosecutors showed grand jurors a full interview of Kifidi that was posted in September of 2021.

Kifidi talked about how he and his crew tried to find Tupac at the 6662 club after Tupac and Shug Knight had beaten up Kifed D's nephew, Orlando Anderson, at the MGM Grand. Y'all was actually waiting at 6-6-2 for Tupac and Orlando can fight, right? Yeah. Tell me about that, because Orlando actually wanted to fight Tupac, right? Yeah, you're going to get his ass knocked out. The line at hand, one-punch. Oh, for real? He had hands?

Oh, hell yeah, like God. Yeah. So tell me about that, Orlando saying he wanted to fight Tupac and have a heads up with him. We just, I was going to tell shit, let him get down. That's all. He's just going to pee his eyes. Then Keefee D talks about how they spotted Tupac Shakur and Shug Knight driving down the street. Some women were yelling his name.

Tupac, Tupac, Tupac, and he was, you know, that's bull of sht. You know, a real, he's going to be sitting down and set his ass down somewhere. You know what I'm saying? I'll be hanging out of the window. Just want to be seen and shit. Like we said, we pull up to the stoplight, and they, but they was making the writers by 17 cars. We just pulled up in the gutter lane and seen their ass. I first shot, he hit a big boy in the head. I thought he was dead. Like, damn, he dead.

Dre, he was the one that was supposed to shoot, you know, Tupac and Shill, but he got scared, right? No, he didn't really get scared, you know. He wasn't ready for that. He was a young. They was youngsters, man. kids but once again i mean y'all crips right so he should be used to that right dray so he wasn't ready for that everybody everybody everybody everybody got a role man everybody ain't everybody you know what i'm saying everybody ain't ain't ain't gonna kill so everybody ain't he was a shooter no okay so but he was the one that was supposed to shoot up two pocket and shill's but for some reason he wasn't ready for it so he gave a gun to orlando right Something like that, yeah.

And Orlando is the shooter. He's the known shooter. I mean, everybody knows Orlando Anderson was a shooter. So, Dre got cold feet. He didn't want to do it. He gave a gun in Orlando, and Orlando shot Tupac and shoot. They did his thing, yeah. So there's Keefe De saying that basically his nephew, Orlando Anderson,

shot at Tupac Shakur and Shug Knight. But one of the witnesses who testified at the grand jury said it was actually Big Dre who fired the weapon. And we obtained photos that prosecutors. executors showed the grand jury. One includes the last photo taken of Tupac Shakur and Shug Knight before the shooting. There's also a photo of a death row records chain Tupac was wearing that night and several photos of the scene including vehicles in Tupac and Shug's caravan. The interior of the BMW bloodied from the shooting and photos of the area that show shell

casings on the ground. Kifi D will be back in court on October 19th and law and crime will of course have that hearing covered for you. I spoke with Kathy Scott. She is a veteran reporter and she has covered Tupac Shakur's murder from the very beginning and she's written two books about the case. The first is the killing of Tupac Shakur and later she wrote the book, The Murder of Biggie Smalls. I spoke with Kathy Scott about a number of things, including why she believes it took so long to solve this crime and what Tupac Shakur's mother would have thought about this arrest. Kathy, what was your reaction when Dwayne Kee-D. Davis was indeed indicted for his alleged role in the murder of Tupac Shakur? I was really pleased. I mean, my first thought was,

you know, about time, good on them. It wasn't surprising that it was Kifi D because I knew, of course, that he was in the car and he was Orlando Anderson's uncle and that they all went out to, you know, shoot Tupac. So, but, but the, um, we did have a little bit of notification of it, you know, it was when the search for warrant was done that, that the world knew that this might happen. So it was, um, no surprise, but very delatedly. Be it. No surprise, but very belatedly. Sure. And that's because. It wasn't a surprise because of the search warrant, of course, but also the fact that Keefe D had been making statements about this publicly for some time.

He had written a book, Compton Street Legend, and then, of course, had granted a number of interviews, including to BET and to some YouTube channels. Yeah, you know, as one cop once told me, as you, crooks are stupid. That's why they get caught. and you can't keep people from themselves, but I don't know if he thought there was a statute of limitations that had expired, you know, but, but it, I think he must have thought all this time it had gone by and, oh, I was just, what did he call himself? He called himself a witness. Dude, you're in the car, you provided the gun. You, you went, everybody in that car had the intent to go hurt two by. Tupac has payback for the beat down earlier at the MGM Grand. So for some reason, he thought he was just bragging on where he was and what he did and thought, you know, only one person would be responsible when everybody in the car was responsible. But, you know, he was a street gang, you know, member.

So he obviously wasn't up on the lock. And it got great evidence that the police department could finally put this to bad. It made it real easy. It's a slam dunk. What was it like covering that case? Because, you know, to hear the people on the scene that night tell it, you know, there was an entourage there. We know about the women in the other vehicle who were kind of yelling Tupac and they were going to go to the club with him and Shugnight. you know they said nobody's talking nobody saw anything even though there's a bunch of people there

and should night we know from keefy d looked him straight in the eyes and saw him at least that's what keyfiedee says so covering this case as a reporter did did you sense frustration were you frustrated at times well the police department clearly did not appear to want to solve the crime and And they held a news conference. All the sports writers were in town for the Bruce Selden, Mike Tyson fight, which is why Tupac was in town. And so they held a news conference and all those reporters were there.

So there are a ton of reporters in town. But they at that conference, but police did not open it to questions. And I frankly think they thought it would go away. and they, you know, they weren't answering reporters' calls. They talked to me because I was a local reporter, but they wouldn't talk to out-of-town reporters. So, but the thing about Compton and not talking, and, you know, there's something called street justice.

The next day, the Bloods went out and got into a shooting match and did all kinds of drive-by shooting. And one of the guys in the car, when Tupac was shot, he was shot on the streets of Compton a day or two later during that blood bath. And, you know, the cops called that two for one. You know, you shot me, then I'm going to shoot you. But so that could be part of it, why witnesses and stuff weren't talking because they were going to take care of it themselves. and but and then Orlando was running all over the west side, south side, south central and bragging, you know, I cap Tupac. I cap Tupac. And then six days later when Tupac died, he stopped

talking. And then he lowered up with the same lawyer. His uncle now has. So you don't lawyer up unless you think you committed a crime. Did I hear you right that you said that you felt that the police did not want to solve this? They wanted it to go away. Oh, I was told that. Yeah. And, you know, I was a crime.

I was on the beat. I had the police beat at the Las Vegas Sun. So, you know, I checked in every day with homicide and all the other things, you know, related to crime that I covered. And so they knew. me, you know, we were friendly. And I was told by a higher up that a big trial like that with all kinds of gangbangers coming in town and all the hip-pop crowd, that it would be bad for tourism. And that was during the push, remember back in, I don't know if you remember,

but back in the 90s, early 90s, mid-90s, there was a big push to try to turn Vegas. into family destination and there's big PR. I do remember that. Yeah. And so that was in the middle of the family destination was poor timing for that for that. And so they just simply, you know, weren't answering questions, weren't providing anything, you know, anything new for anybody. They appeared to not be covering the crime. Compton PD arrested, but they didn't arrest. They took Keefei, they took Orlando Anderson, they detained him, and they raided Kifu D's house during a gang raid roundup, and they found a Glock in the house, one Tupac was shot with a Glock, and what did they find in KPD's house now, 40, 40 caliber, you know, bullets that match, that don't match,

but go into a block. So they've got circumstantial evidence on Keefe and they also have art evidence. But part of the reason today they're doing it is because there's a new sheriff

in town. He got elected last year and also with Keefe D coming out with you know, idiotically coming out with a book where he admits being into the car in the car they knew he was in the car police did because of compton pd intelligence they shared so they knew that but that was just from the cops to have it as hard evidence now makes it much

easier to um to prosecute all the witnesses and stuff it's been so long almost 30 years that that's tough to do so he he put in a book that's hard evidence you know that that I, you know, that he did it. I would imagine someone tipped off the police that there was this book out there because I don't think they go around, you know, looking at books when they come out, you know, written by gangbangers. One person who did not live to see the arrest in Tupac Shakur's murder, his mother, Afini Shakur. How would she have viewed the arrest of Keefee Dee? I think it would have been a big moment for. her to see justice. But she was, you know, when asked several times, I talked to her as well,

but when asked, you know, she says, I'm not about the crime. I'm about who he was. And, but this, of course, would have been a big moment for her. But, you know, she was, she, she, she kept us legacy alive and in a very respectful way and you know she represented herself in court you know for when she was in her 20s for murder no attorney and she beat it and this was a very strong woman with a strong foundation and I think that's how she survived losing her only son but you know he lives on and his music, and I think that's how she looked at it. But, you know, rest in peace for her and wherever she is, you know, maybe she does know. Where do you see this case going next? The case against Keefei D. Do you think this goes to trial? Do you think he tries to plead out?

What do you see happening? Is it just too early to tell? Well, I thought right off the bat, the way they held that huge, and the biggest news conference, shored up. of the mass killing in Vegas. It's the biggest one they've ever had. And so I thought, oh, they're going to take this all the way. And then I was on a podcast recently with a former homicide cop. Not the Tupac team, but he was a homicide cop. And I knew him back in the day.

And he said that he's talked to homicide and stuff and the district attorney's office, and he said they're going to want to early on try to plead this out. Because he, you know, he's looking at murder one, which is life. So they could plead him down to 30, 25 years. But their thing is they've got such good goods on him. And he wanted to plead out a few years earlier. So that's their goal, I think. So we're going to see. a conviction, but I think it's going to be by him, him getting a queen for a day, give up the goods, and then take a lesser charge and go to, go to prison for a couple of decades. He's 60 years old. I'd hate to see him get 15 years and get out on aid on good time.

So hopefully they're going to, he'll get a big sentence. So he'll be off the street for the rest of his life. Well, Kathy Scott, thank you so much for coming on. We really appreciate appreciate it. And we hope to talk to you again about this. It's a really interesting case, too, actually very sad cases. It is very sad. It is really sad. So it's nice to see justice for, you know, for Tupac. I wish his mom were here for it. And thank you for covering it, too, you know, getting the word out. So and thanks for having me. It's been a pleasure. And that's it for this edition of Law and Crime Sidebar podcast. You can listen to and download Sidebar, on Apple, Spotify, Google, and wherever else you get your podcast.

And of course, you can always watch it on Law and Crimes YouTube channel. I'm Ann Janette Levy, and we will see you next time. Bye.