Keefe D Involved In Prison Fight While Awaiting Tupac Murder Trial

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Duane "Keefe D" Davis, 60, appears in a Las Vegas court on October 19, 2023 for his arraignment on murder charges in the death of rapper Tupac Shakur. Shakur, 25, died on September 7, 1996, six days after being shot while in a car near the Las Vegas Strip. (Photo by John Locher / POOL / AFP) (Photo by JOHN LOCHER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
He's being held in Las Vegas.

Keefe D has been at the center of one of the most infamous cases in all of hip hop. He was charged with the murder of rapper Tupac Shakur in 2023, and will stand trial in March. The criminal has pleaded not guilty to the murder charges. Unfortunately, he has not had an easy time behind bars. Keefe was recently involved in a nasty prison fight. TMZ reported that the inmate, born Duane Davis, fought with a fellow inmate at Clark County Detention Center in Las Vegas. He was subsequently hit with another criminal charge.

The outlet doesn't state which inmate started the fight, but details the severity of it. Keefe D reportedly engaged in "mutual combat by grappling and throwing closed fist strikes." He also put his fellow inmate in a headlock. It took a prison guard spraying both inmates with pepper spray for the fight to be broken up. Keefe D is being charged with battery by the other inmate. He told officers that the incident was not his fault, however. The murder suspect alleges he was merely "standing his ground."

Keefe D Claims He Was "Standing His Ground

Las Vegas Police Department Holds News Conference On Arrest In 1996 Murder Of Tupac Shakur
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - SEPTEMBER 29: A booking photo of Duane "Keefe D" Davis, photographed off of a television monitor, is shown during a news conference at the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department headquarters held to brief media members on Davis' arrest and indictment for the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur on September 29, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. A Nevada grand jury indicted Davis on one count of murder with a deadly weapon in the fatal drive-by shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Keefe D has maintained his innocence regarding the Tupac murder. That said, the career criminal has made some alarming statements about the rapper over the years. In his 2019 memoir Compton Street Legend, Keefe made it clear that Tupac got his just desserts. "Tupac chose the wrong game to play and the wrong n**gas to play with," he asserted. "Suge and them should have done a better job of protecting that dude because they knew who the f*ck we were and the kind of sh*t we were capable of."

Keefe also hinted at his involvement in Tupac's death during a VLAD TV interview. The host asked the current inmate who shot Tupac. He refused to answer, but suggested that he knew. "I'm not gonna go into details on that one," Keefe explained. "Keep the streets, homie." The Tupac murder trial was initially set for November, 2024, but was pushed back. It's set to begin on March 17.

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Elias Andrews is a music and entertainment writer for HotNewHipHop. He joined HNHH in 2024 as the lead night shift contributor, which means he covers new music releases on a weekly basis. In the year since joining, Elias has covered some of the biggest and most turbulent stories in the world of music. He covered the Drake and Kendrick Lamar battle, and the release of the disses “Family Matters” and “Meet the Grahams,” in particular, in real time. He has also detailed the ongoing list of allegations and criminal charges made against Diddy. Elias’ favorite artists are Andre 3000, MF Doom, pre-808s Kanye West and Tyler, The Creator. He loves L.A. hip-hop but not L.A. sports teams. The first album he ever bought was Big Willie Style by Will Smith, which he maintains is still a pretty good listen.