LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A jail combat between the person accused of orchestrating the homicide of Tupac Shakur and one other man accused of homicide started after every merely stated, “What’s up” to one another, in accordance with court docket paperwork.
Final week, a Clark County grand jury indicted Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 61, on a cost of battery by a prisoner and problem to combat for an incident in December.
Davis, who faces a homicide cost in Shakur’s dying, has publicly stated he was sitting within the entrance passenger seat of the automobile concerned within the 1996 homicide close to the Las Vegas Strip.
Davis has remained on the Clark County Detention Heart since his arrest in September 2023. He’s assigned to an intensive protecting custody unit for “high-profile cases” and “people of different gang affiliations,” a corrections officer informed the grand jury.
Paperwork the 8 Information Now Investigators first obtained reveal Davis allegedly fought with one other inmate, Rochlon Hamilton, 53, on Dec. 23 the place each “[engaged] in mutual combat by grappling and throwing closed fist strikes.” Davis allegedly grabbed Hamilton in a headlock.
Hamilton requested Davis, “What’s up” and Davis responded, “What’s up” after which they began to combat, the corrections officer stated. The officer then sprayed the boys with pepper spray in an try to interrupt up the combat. Officers then moved each inmates to “disciplinary housing.”
“As soon as they saw each other they were just locked and loaded,” a grand juror stated about watching video of the altercation.
“Despite clear video evidence showing Mr. Davis was the victim in this situation, he is being unfairly charged in a case riddled with serious procedural concerns,” Davis’ lawyer, Carl Arnold, stated final month. “We will aggressively challenge these charges and demand full accountability for the security failures and the serious errors in the official record.”
Duane “Keffe D” Davis seems in court docket for a listening to on a movement to dismiss expenses for his involvement within the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025 in Las Vegas. (Ethan Miller/Pool Picture by way of AP)
Davis was scheduled to look in Las Vegas Justice Court docket on Tuesday on the battery case however the listening to was merely a formality following the grand jury indictment. A listening to in Davis’ homicide case, which was additionally scheduled for Tuesday, was postponed till subsequent week.
Davis’ trial was scheduled to start in March. Davis’ subsequent court docket listening to ought to embody arguments for both going ahead with that date or delaying it.
Clark County District Court docket Choose Carli Kierny beforehand dominated Davis has no immunity from prosecution in Nevada. Throughout Davis’ final court docket look in January, there was no point out of the December combat.
Hamilton additionally faces expenses for the incident.
