Ex — gang leader faces maximum penalty of life in prison for Tupac Shakur murder

Duane 'Keffe D' Davis convicted of leading drive-by shooting Killing stemmed from hostilities between two LA street gangs Shakur widely considered one of rap music's greatest artists By Jack Queen and Steve Gorman LAS VEGAS, Oct 13 (Reuters) — A former gang leader was set to be sentenced on Tuesday for orchestrating the 1996 drive-by shooting death of hip-hop star Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas, capping the lone prosecution of a long-unsolved murder that shaped the golden age of rap music. Duane "Keffe D" Davis, 63, found guilty of first-degree murder in August, was scheduled to return to a Las Vegas courtroom facing a maximum penalty of life in prison without the possibility of parole. Davis has said he would appeal his conviction. Until Davis' 2023 arrest, the killing of Shakur, shot dead in the passenger seat of an SUV driven by his record executive, Marion "Suge" Knight, had stood for nearly three decades as one of America's most notorious cold cases. The murder, which silenced one of rap's most commercially successful and influential artists, heightened the image of violence permeating 1990s hip-hop culture while stoking the infamous East Coast-West Coast "gangsta" rap feud of the