Keefe D. isn’t worried by the news that Suge Knight is going to release a book about shooting Tupac Shakur days before his murder trial
Duane Davis’s lawyer says the new book won’t change the case and that his client’s past murder statements were just made up to get attention.
The news that Suge Knight is going to name people in an upcoming memoir about the 1996 drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur doesn’t bother Duane “Keefe D” Davis.
Knight is in jail right now serving a 28-year sentence for a hit-and-run that killed someone in 2015. However, his book, “Your Pain is My Joy,” will be available on August 4 through Gallery Books. There are only six days left until Davis’s murder trial starts on August 10 with the release date.
Knight was driving the BMW when Shakur was shot and killed on the Las Vegas Strip, not long after their group got into a fight with another group inside a nearby casino. Knight has said that his 352-page project will include accurate dates for events leading up to the assassination.
Michael Sanft, Davis’s lawyer, told the media that the book will have no effect on their tactics or how they choose the jury. Sanft doesn’t think the authorities will even try to call Knight to the stand because Knight’s story about that night has changed too many times in the last thirty years for it to hold up when he is questioned by the defense.
Given that Davis has repeatedly joked about his role in the killing, the defense’s confidence is very surprising. In talks with the media and recorded police interviews with Los Angeles and Las Vegas gang task forces from the early 2000s, Davis said he planned the hit, provided the gun, and was in the Cadillac where the gunfire started.
Davis said that his nephew Orlando Anderson was the one who set off the bombs in those tapes. In 1998, Anderson was killed in a killing by a different gang.
In his defense, Sanft says that Davis made up these past statements in an effort to profit from the tragedy and gain fame. Because the lawyer is sure that Nevada doesn’t have enough solid evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that his client is guilty, he sees his client as a speaker instead of a killer.
