Tupac's Killer ROLLS EYES as He's Locked Up for Murder

I do believe. that when you take a life like that you. deserve. every minute. every minute of the maximum amount. of punishment. >> Anything else you want to say? >> I'm good. Um I'm going to appeal this. case for sure. >> Dwayne Kefei D. Davis [music]. has officially been sentenced for the. murder of Tupac Shakur. This is a long.

time coming and today [music] in court. was not without its own emotional, powerful, and [music] memorable moments, including from Kei D himself. Welcome to. Sidebar, presented by Law and Crime. I'm. Jesse Weber. [music] We finally made it here. More. than 30 years in the making. Today, the. man convicted of orchestrating the. murder of Tupac Shakur, has officially. learned his fate. Dwayne Kefei D. Davis,

the only person ever charged in the. rapper's killing, has been sentenced in. a Las Vegas courtroom. Happened today. Tupac, as we know, was gunned down in a. drive-by shooting on September 7th, 1996. out in Las Vegas. He was 25 years old. He died 6 days later. And for nearly. three decades, this case basically sat. unsolved until Davis started talking. Prosecutors built their entire case or. almost their entire case around Davis's. own words. Those being from his 2008.

profit of federal agents, his 2019. memoir, Compton Street Legend, his. interviews, his media appearances. He. put himself in that car, in that white. Cadillac. He even said he passed the. gun. And prosecutors say it was that gun. that was eventually given to the. apparent shooter, his nephew Orlando. Anderson. Davis was never accused of. pulling the trigger, but under Nevada. law, someone who helps another person. commit murder can be convicted of the. same crime. Prosecutors argue Davis was. the shot caller. The leader of the. Southside Compton Crypts orchestrated.

this attack against Tupac Shakur in. retaliation for an apparent assault on. his nephew at the MGM Grand Hotel. earlier that night. A jury deliberated. for less than three hours before finding. Davis guilty of first-degree murder with. a deadly weapon back in August. His. plans to appeal this case. He's. currently serving a separate 16 to. 40month sentence at Nevada's High Desert. State Prison. This is for a jail house. altercation. And this brings us to court. today, the sentencing. Now, before we. even get to the moment when the judge.

sentenced Kefi, Mr. Davis, before it was. all said and done, he [snorts] had to. get some final words in. And there was. one moment that came while the judge was. discussing the law for allotting time. for any credit for time served. Remember. I mentioned he had been serving time for. a separate jail house altercation. Well, according to Davis, he should have. seemingly been given credit for that. The judge made it clear that is a. separate case. That's not how the law. works. >> So, at this point, we will proceed to.

sentencing, but I will note those. objections for the record. Yes, sir. >> I got 1111 days. A lot of those days, Mr. Davis, did go to the other case that. you served time on. And I know you're. wrong. I was in here for. >> I was in jail for this case, >> right? >> They let that man out to attack me. That's wrong. >> I understand that's your position. However, legal. >> my position that's true. >> I understand that's your version. Um, however, the law says that I cannot.

credit that torture sentence. And in. another moment, this was before victim. impact statements. Davis had a brief. message for the judge, but it wasn't an. apology to be clear. No, no, no, no. Instead, it was a promise to appeal. >> I just want my stuff back. They took out. my house. Just want all my stuff back. All them pictures that uh that photo log. them with my daughters. >> Okay. >> You know, my stuff. >> What? >> Anything else you want to say?

>> No, I'm good. I'm going to appeal this case for sure. >> Okay. Well, now let's go to the. arguments. This is prosecutor Mark. Dejako. He made his case for why Davis. should not get the minimum sentence. here, arguing that Davis wasn't just. being punished for the murder, but. rather for profiting off of it for such. a long time and causing immense pain. >> And let's look at him in 1996. He's a. fivetime convicted felon. He is the head of a violent street gang.

in Compton. And by his own admission, by his own admission, he's the one who. gives the order. But more importantly, what pain happened after that? I mean, we all kind of talk about it as like a. legend, the 10-day war in Compton, but. those were real people. That was a real. six-year-old that caught a bullet in. that war. And the amount of violence. that existed that stemmed from this.

particular act, the death of another. rapper that stemmed from this particular. act had wide ranging effects upon the. world and individuals just like them, other family members that suffered from. his actions. And so that means he. doesn't get the minimum sentence. And. then you listen to him on those jail. calls after being indicted for murder. And I know Mr. Samp has said publicly.

about, well, everybody sort of has blood. on their money from this case. You know, the documentarians, everybody. I mean, theoretically, I wouldn't have a job if. people didn't die. So, there's blood on. my money. He wouldn't have done this pro. bono uh if if he didn't want something. from this as well. So, there's blood on. all of our money. But there's one. exception that Mr. Davis that I think. needs to be identified. He's the only. one who's trying to profit off a killing. that he committed and for that he.

doesn't deserve the minimum sentence. And then we heard from Davis's attorney, Michael S, and he addressed the court. and he was very careful in what he. wanted to say. basically acknowledging. he's kind of limited because there's. going to be an appeal, but he did want. to seemingly correct the record that his. client somehow profited off of the death. of Tupac Shakur because he actually. blamed the government for the family's. continued suffering and pain, saying. they caused unnecessary delays in this. case. The problem I have with it in.

terms of representations made is that as. the court recalls in the evidence that. was proven or shown in the in the in the. during the course of the trial that in. 2017 they had information but yet the. district attorney's office didn't do. anything with it. In 2018 they developed. information but they didn't do anything. with it. 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023.

And you know what the problem is with it. on some level is when we turn on and say. the family has suffered, we all agree. the family has suffered. But to put that. onus back on Mr. Davis to say, okay, we. want him to have the maximum sentence in. this case, I think is a disingenuous. argument made by the state in this. matter when they are the ones who. purposely delayed. >> And then it was time for victim impact. statements. And to be clear, generally. when we see these, it's not by law. always has to influence a judge's. decision, but it is helpful for the. court to hear. And also, this is just.

from a human level an opportunity for. those who were affected by a crime, who. lost a loved one, to explain what that. loss was like, how they have been. impacted. And I got to say, when you. hear what Tupac's sister, Setua Shakur, told the court, this is an example of. the power of a victim impact statement, cuz we had, by the way, the privilege of. interviewing Set at the very start of. this trial and what an ordeal this has. been, what it's been like for her and.

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him, listening to this tragedy that was. described over and over and over again. >> My brother was born an icon. He was born. a legend. My mother fought for his life. while she was herself on trial, facing. 365 years in prison. While she was on trial and on bail, she. decided to. she wanted to leave something behind in. case she got time. She was 22 at the.

time. She consciously raised him to be. a human rights activist, someone to stand up for those weaker and. smaller than he was. And that's who he. was to me and all of the family. He was. the person that you go to for. protection. Even as a 9-year-old, as a. 9-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. When I say watch over, I. mean he would take us back and forth to. school. We lived in Harlem, went to. school, Lower East Side, had to take two. trains, two buses, and walk plenty. blocks every single day. him being. responsible. for the five kids younger than him. [snorts] And he did that. He never. stopped. He's not only my brother, four years, my.

senior, but he's also my father figure. He was the man in my home. He was charged with being the man in the. home. He was charged with being a person. to be responsible and take care of me, to keep me out of trouble, to pull me. off the off the street corners with my. friends when I was past my curfew. He. was his responsibility to make sure I. ate.

And it wasn't just me again. Everybody. in our our immediate family, our. extended family, and as we got older, our community as a whole. And then she. described the pain that rippled through. her home, her family when Tupac was. killed and how this has changed all of. them. >> My son was 6 months when he died.

His father, his uncles were in that car procession. that night. My younger cousins was in that car. procession that night procession that. night. My little brother was in a car. procession that night. And none of these. men in my family were the same again. This that day, the loss of Tupac. for a long time crippled.

my entire family emotionally and. mentally. Um, I've been hospitalized. multiple times for depression, radiation, and trauma, PTSD. I finally had a child, which meant my.

son wouldn't have had to grow up the way. the other men in my family did without. having an elder man to to support them. and guide them and that was taken away. Um, my both of my children were raised um in. my grief. So they have. trust issues, um abandonment issues,

relationship issues because the first 10. years of their lives, I really couldn't. get over the loss of um one my brother. um Tupac, but Yaf Fuller, who was also. in the car in back was my god brother. and um was murdered two months after. Tupac died. So again this day, this um.

night of. hunting. and. murdering. who I know [clears throat] to be a. prince. Um this may sound weird, but I. say all the time that I can believe in. Jesus. I can believe that Jesus existed. because I know someone who. who I can describe in the same way that.

Jesus has described. for me. He has put his life on the line. many times to protect others. He. dedicated his career to the advancement. of of his people. He was gentle and kind. to women and children. He fed. anyone he knew that didn't have um. he was truly my shining star, my shining. prince.

He is my. whom God trusted to take care of me. My. mother had two children and God. gave me to him to me. He's supposed to. be my life partner. He's supposed to be. who I can go to when I needed advice. from growing up. I'm now 51 and. [clears throat]. I spent 30 years without my protection. Miss his recipe of barbecue chicken.

Miss his laugh. He laugh so sloppy. He. was He was slobber when he laughed. He. laughed so full and so big. We lost something. The whole our whole generation. lost something huge. September 13th, 1996.

I'm I. was the little sister that just wanted. to be with my brother. I just wanted to. be with my brother. I want to go. I want. to go with you. I want to go. Why can't. I go? And that walked me in. to all of my attempts. I'm grateful that I've made it out. I'm. grateful that I've learned lessons. My. first day, the first time I went to a. hospital in Arizona, it was a beautiful.

place. I wish that my brother knew the tools. that I was able to learn around trauma. and around carrying. um old wounds and how to heal them. He. deserved to to walk around feeling. better than he did. He deserved to not. feel like he had the world on his. shoulders. And but my guy, he did a.

great job in those 25 years. And I'm. looking just proud, proud, proud, [laughter] proud. to have been cared for by him. >> And before finishing, she made one thing. clear. Kefi D, Mr. Davis deserves the. maximum. He was my mother named him. Tupacamaru. after the Inca chief, Peruvian Inca chief who was also a human. rights liberation.

activist and leader. and she named him in the hopes that he. would follow in those same steps and. again he did. He he would have been. the promise of all of our grandma. pennies. I think that's all I have to say. I do. believe. that when you take a life like that, you.

deserve. every minute. every minute of the maximum amount. of punishment time to sit down and. contemplate what you've done to this. world, not just to me. Thank you again. >> Now, one quick note before we go on to. the official sentencing. Like with a lot. of the big trials that we cover here on. Sidebar, we can't show you like every. second, every minute of the courtroom. footage. We're kind of limited in what.

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to go back to this. Okay. This is when. the judge delivered her parting words. for Kefi D before sentencing. >> Mr. Davis, for 3 years, I've heard you. say some variation of the same thing to. law enforcement, to bet. in your book, and it's something like, yeah, I was involved in this, but I'm. different. I've moved on. I got out of. Compton. I'm a grandfather now. I'm here. to tell you that's not how this works. Okay.

You don't get to take a man from his. family. You don't get to take his very. life, his whole future from him and just. walk away from it. Especially when that. man is Tupac Shakur. The world never. forgot about him and his death. And. neither did Las Vegas. Took us 30 years. But at this time, you are going to face. justice for what you did on September. 7th, 1996. In accordance with the laws of the state. of Nevada, you're hereby judge guilty of. first-degree murder with use of a deadly. weapon, a felony. could impose the $25. administrative assessment fee, $3 DNA.

collection fee, $150 DA 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 an. 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, J. >> We'll be in recess. Thank you, everyone. >> There you go. Dwayne Kefi D. Davis was. sentenced to 40 years to life in prison.

That is 20 years for the murder, mandatory 20 years for using a deadly. weapon. He does plan to appeal. But I. got to say, for Tupac's family, after. three decades, for the world, for the. followers, for the people who love and. admire Tupac, this is something that all. of them have finally been waiting for. Justice. It's all we have for you right. now here on Sidebar. Everybody, thank. you so much for joining us. I'm Jesse. Weber. We'll speak to you next time.