The man, Davis, accused of killing in link with the gang-feud murder of US rapper Tupac Shakur a quarter of a century ago appeared in a US court on Wednesday.
Last week, Duane “Keefe D” Davis was accused of the murder, despite not being the man wielding the weapon in Las Vegas in 1996.
He was brought into court with handcuffs in his hands and sporting blue detention center clothes, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.
The formal arraignment was delayed and Davis did not submit an appeal to the charge of killing with a lethal weapon with the plan to promote, further, or aid a criminal gang.
Duane “Keffe D” Davis, a man who is charged with murder, has long been known to investigators as one of four suspects identified early in the probe. He isn’t the charged gunman but was defined as the group’s ringleader by authorities on Friday at a news conference and in court. In Nevada you can be charged with a crime, including murder, if you support someone to execute the crime in the same way that a getaway driver can be charged with bank robbery even if he never entered the bank.
Shakur, the hip-hop artist behind hits such as “California Love,” “Changes,” and “Dear Mama,” was already a mega star in the world of rap when he was shot on September 7, 1996.
Shakur was signed to Death Row Records, an outfit associated at the time with Los Angeles street gang Mob Piru, which had a long-standing beef with the South Side Compton Crips – an outfit in which Davis was a critical figure.
Davis was arrested last Friday while on a walk near his home on the outskirts of Las Vegas, hours before prosecutors declared in court that a Nevada grand jury had indicted the self-described “gangster” on one count of killing with a deadly weapon.
