Man Arrested for Tupac Shakur’s Murder Described the Crime in Detail in His 2019 Memoir

After Friday’s arrest of Duane “Keffe D” Davis in the long-unsolved murder of rap legend Tupac Shakur, a damning passage has resurfaced from Davis’ book in which he describes the crime in detail.

Davis, described by The New York Times as “a former gang leader,” has often admitted to being in the passenger seat of the shooter’s car during Shakur’s death. However, in his 2019 memoir Compton Street Legend, Davis gives a play-by-play of what happened. The passage has begun to recirculate on social media. in light of his arrest.

On the night of his murder, Davis, who was affiliated with the Crips, claims he and his companions waited in a parking lot with weapons to assault Shakur and his friend, who identified as Bloods. When Shakur failed to turn up, Davis and his crew went looking for the rapper only to encounter him and his entourage at a stop light. “As they sat in traffic, we slowly rolled past the long line of luxury cars they had in their caravan, looking into each one until we pulled up to the front vehicle and found who we were seeking,” Davis wrote.

In the circulating passage, Davis describes the fateful moments of violence, appearing to allege Tupac fired the first shots. He goes on to detail how his crew abandoned their rental car and walked home. They returned for it the next evening, driving to California and completely refurbishing it before returning it to the rental agency. By then, Davis wrote, it was “too late for any forensics to be accurate and reliable.”

“I sang because they promised I would not be prosecuted,” he wrote in the book, referring to a deal he struck whereby he wouldn’t be charged with any crimes if he told investigators who did the shooting. It was reported back in July, when Davis’ house was searched, that investigators felt the statements in his book were fair game for prosecution.

You can read Davis’ account of the murder below.