Duane Davis sentenced to 40 years over Tupac’s murder

Former American gang leader Duane "Keffe D" Davis has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for orchestrating the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur, according to the BBC. A jury found Davis guilty of one count of murder with a deadly weapon in September over the drive-by shooting that killed the rapper in Las Vegas on September 7, 1996.

The 63-year-old, who has said he will appeal the verdict, was accused by prosecutors of organising the killing, although he did not fire the gun himself. Prosecutors argued that Davis, a former leader of the South Side Compton Crips street gang, supplied the firearm used in the shooting and that his nephew, Orlando Anderson, opened fire on Shakur.

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