Duane 'Keffe D' Davis sentenced to 40 years to life in Tupac Shakur killing

We're taking you now to the scene moments ago in Las Vegas where Dwayne Davis has just been sentenced in the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur. Let's listen to that moment. And neither did Las Vegas. It took us 30 years, but at this time, you are going to face justice for what you did on September 7, 1996. In accordance with the laws of the state of Nevada, you're hereby judged guilty of first-degree murder with use of a deadly weapon, a felony. I'm going to impose the $25 administrative assessment fee, $3 DNA collection fee, $150 DNA fee, as well as the test. as to the first degree murder portion you are sentenced to 20 years to life as to the deadly weapon enhancement you are sentenced to a mandatory consecutive 20 years to life the aggregate sentence is 40 years to life you have 731 days credit time served toward that sentence you are hereby remanded thank you we'll be in recess thank you everyone journalist Steve Futterman is at the courthouse in Las Vegas Steve tell us more about this sentencing well Andrew he did face the potential of life in prison without the possibility of parole the judge gave him a lesser sentence but in court the attorney for the prosecution and even defense attorney acknowledged that this sentence whatever it was going to be the minimum the maximum was likely to put Dwayne Davis in prison for the rest of his life he's 63 years old right now he showed very little emotion he did talk to the judge briefly wanting to make sure he got credit for the time he has served already but this essentially does look to be like a life sentence my understanding is he would be eligible for parole possibly in 40 years again and he's 63 right now he'd be a 103 then we need to get clarification on that but before the sentencing was announced we had emotional victim victim impact statements from his brother and Tupac Shakur's sister let's take a listen to his sister addressing the court he was the person that you go to for protection even as a nine-year-old as a nine-year-old we lived in new york city in the 80s he was the oldest of the younger kids in the family and his responsibility was to watch over the younger kids she talked about the emotional toll she has had she talked about suicide attempts about depression. She talked about really not being there for her children the first 10 years of their lives. Now, when his brother spoke, Maurice, he also talked about just missing his brother very much. He gave a very brief statement, but these were very emotional statements. Now, the judge, again, did have the option. She could have sentenced him to life in prison with the possibility of parole or without the possibility of parole. She gave him this 40-year-to-life sentence, which again, most likely means that Duane Davis will spend the rest of his life in prison. And Steve, this does finally end one of the great unsolved murder mysteries, doesn't it? Yeah, it does. There are still some conspiracy conspiracy theorists who feel that there is more to this story than in the world of East Coast versus West Coast rap. There are other people who might have been involved. But as far as law enforcement goes, yes, this is the end of the case. And I should point out that very many years ago, in the early 2000s, the law enforcement officials here in Vegas always thought that Duane Davis was the person who was orchestrating this murder. They just didn't have enough evidence. But it was Duane Davis's memoir and interviews he did starting in around 2015, which gave them the evidence to go to court. They went to court. On August 31st, he was found guilty. And now he's been sentenced to a potential life sentence in Nevada prison. Steve, thank you. Journalist Steve Futterman, live in Las Vegas.