Keefe D Reveals The Gunman and Details The Final Moments of Tupac Shakur’s Murder: The Chilling Truth Behind a Legend’s Death

The assassination of Tupac Shakur on September 7, 1996, in Las Vegas has stood for decades as one of the most haunting and enduring mysteries in music history. For years, speculation, theories, and a wall of silence have made the legendary rapper’s death a wound that would not heal. But all that changed when Duane “Keefe D” Davis, an individual allegedly present at the scene, decided to talk after receiving a proffer agreement from the police. Keefe D’s confession not only pulls back the curtain on that fateful night but also names the person who pulled the trigger, exposing the full, dark conspiracy behind it. Now, Keefe D is facing trial, and may spend the rest of his life behind bars for a murder he could have simply kept his mouth shut about.

Keefe D: An Inconsistent Storyteller Who Was There

Keefe D, described as one of the most contradictory “snitches” in history, has appeared across a wide range of media, from books to podcasts, “waffling with glee” about his involvement in the death of one of the greatest rappers of all time. However, his stories have often been inconsistent with the details, such as his claim that he saw Tupac and Suge a day before the attack, which couldn’t be true since they flew into Vegas on the same day as the murder.

Despite the inconsistencies, the police have confirmed Keefe D’s presence at the crime scene through his own testimony and that of other witnesses. The crucial point is that not a single critic denies he was there; they know he was, and that he was “the final catalyst for the series of events that led to Pac’s gruesome murder”. The inconsistencies in Keefe D’s account can be attributed to the 25-year time gap and a tendency to embellish his story to sound tougher, but the core of his presence there is undeniable.

The Origins of the Feud: From Jake Robel to a Piss-Drinking Party

For many, the chain of events that led to Tupac’s death began on the night of September 7, 1996. But for Keefe D, it started much earlier, with a chance meeting with P Diddy. Keefe D is not fond of Diddy, and he says he wishes he had never met the Bad Boy mogul. The link between them was Eric “Von Zip” Martin, a notorious Harlem kingpin whose role in Tupac’s death is undisputed. From 1991 to 1996, Keefe D acted as Diddy’s protection whenever he was in Cali, doing favors for him at concerts, events, and parties.

The flashpoint for the East Coast vs. West Coast war was the death of Jake Robel in 1995. Robel, Suge Knight’s bodyguard and friend, was shot and killed during a scuffle at Jermaine Dupri’s birthday party in Atlanta, which both Suge and Diddy attended. The word on the street was that “Diddy’s people shot Suge’s right-hand man”. Robel’s death is arguably “the most important death in hip-hop”, as it was the first time that “rap turned into street”.

Suge Knight wanted Diddy’s “head”. Things escalated dramatically during a “piss-drinking party” on Christmas night in 1995. Suge Knight admitted to forcing Mark Anthony Bell, a Bad Boy employee, to drink his own urine after Bell refused to reveal the location of Diddy’s family home in Los Angeles. Suge, Tupac, and a few Death Row crew members beat Bell before humiliating him. Diddy understood the message: Suge wasn’t playing, and he wanted his pound of flesh from where it would hurt most.

The Call for a Hit: A Deadly Bounty

Following this incident, Diddy went on the offensive. There were two “bounties” put in place. The first was a $10,000 bounty on Death Row chains, a contract allegedly sent out to the Southside Crips. Keefe D denies the monetary value of the bounty, but anyone familiar with the story knows it was about intimidation, sending a message, and making Suge and Tupac targets. Orlando Anderson, Keefe D’s nephew and a Crip, was the one who snatched the chain from a Blood affiliate in the Death Row crew.

And this is where things get even darker. Diddy had allegedly placed a million-dollar bounty on both Tupac and Suge’s heads, and Von Zip was the one tasked with facilitating the hit. According to Keefe D, Von Zip offered him a gun and help in taking out Tupac right then and there. Armed with a gun and backed by his own crew and Von Zip’s New York crew, Keefe D went in search of Tupac. They knew Tupac and Suge were heading to Club 662, but after waiting for 20 minutes and the New York crew getting “cold feet,” they left.

The Fateful Intersection

What they didn’t know was that Tupac and Suge had stopped by their hotel room, a delay Keefe D and Von Zip hadn’t factored in. Just 15 minutes before the shooting, Tupac’s car was stopped by police for loud music and a lack of license plates, a small delay that would ultimately lead to a deadly encounter. As Keefe D and his crew were heading home, their paths crossed with Tupac’s in the most unlikely of ways.

Keefe D spotted them first: Tupac was hanging halfway out of the passenger window of the BMW, talking to some women and inviting them to the club. This small action was a fatal error, as Keefe D and his crew didn’t know what car Tupac was in and might have passed them by. They circled back, ready to finish the job.

The Person Who Pulled the Trigger

The crucial question was, who would pull the trigger? Keefe D was in the front passenger seat and couldn’t get a clear shot at Tupac, who was in the front passenger seat of his car. DeAndre Smith, in the back seat behind the driver, declined the offer. The responsibility fell to Keefe D’s nephew, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson.

Orlando leaned over DeAndre and fired four shots into Tupac’s vehicle. Tupac was hit four times: once in the arm, once in the thigh, and twice in the chest, with one bullet entering his right lung. Keefe D also debunked the long-standing rumor that Suge Knight used Tupac as a human shield, saying that Suge’s first instinct was to protect his own head and body.

Tupac was rushed to the hospital and placed on life support, but he died six days later from internal bleeding. Keefe D and his crew, meanwhile, went drinking. In the aftermath, Keefe D told everyone involved to keep their mouths shut, and for the most part, they did. Orlando Anderson, the one who pulled the trigger, died in an unrelated shooting in 1998. The other members of the group also died over the years, leaving only Keefe D and Suge Knight, who remains silent in prison, to tell the tale. The full story of Tupac’s murder, a narrative of revenge, gang violence, and a deadly bounty, has finally been revealed by the man who was at the center of it all.