2Pac‘s alleged killer Duane “Keefe D” Davis has claimed that he is innocent of the crime and has instead accused a former security guard for Suge Knight of orchestrating the rapper’s murder.
Speaking to ABC News in his first interview since being arrested in 2023, the former gang leader maintained that he was not involved in the 1996 killing of the “California Love” hitmaker.
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“I did not do it,” he said, before downplaying prosecutors’ case against him. “They don’t have nothing. And they know they don’t have nothing. They can’t even place me out here. They don’t have no gun, no car, no Keefe D, no nothing.”
Keefe D also claimed that he was hundreds of miles away in Los Angeles the night 2Pac was fatally shot on the Las Vegas strip — and has “about 20 or 30 people” who can corroborate his alibi at trial.
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The accused killer went on to accuse Reggie Wright Jr., an ex-Compton police officer and former head of security at Death Row Records, of being the mastermind behind the murder, labeling him and his security company “mercenaries.”
Wright Jr., who previously testified in front of the grand jury that would charge Keefe D with 2Pac’s murder, hit back at the claims.
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“It’s heartbreaking they keep dragging in my name. I didn’t have anything to do with that. One of the worst days of my life when I heard that that happened,” he told ABC News.
“Keefe D confessed to Tupac’s murder to the LAPD in 2008, to the Las Vegas Metro PD in 2009 and then publicly from 2018-2023 on BET, multiple YouTube interviews, and in a book about his life, and is only now using the media to slander me because he finally got arrested and has no other defense.”
Keefe D further disputed prosecutors’ claims that orchestrated the killing of 2Pac by saying that the author of his 2019 memoir Compton Street Legend had embellished the facts.
“I’ve never read the book,” he said. “I just gave him details of my life. And he went and did his little investigation and wrote the book on his own.”
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The 61-year-old also claimed that he only confessed to the killing to detectives so that he and others could avoid drug charges.
“That’s the only way you’re walking free. It would’ve been selfish to let everybody go down because of me,” he said.
As for his many media interviews in which he admitted to playing a role in 2Pac’s death, Keefe claimed that he was “paid” to say those things.
Davis also hit out at Las Vegas police for allegedly reneging on an immunity deal, which a judge ruled was not binding.
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The former Crip is set to stand trial on February 9, 2026 following a recent pushback in the high-profile case.
