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Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis Sentenced to 40 Years to Life for Murder of Tupac Shakur

October 14

Duane “ Keffe D ” Davis, the former Compton gang leader convicted of orchestrating the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur amid escalating East Coast-West Coast rap rivalries, was sentenced Tuesday to 40…

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