Exclusive
SICK BOAST
Shock moment Tupac Shakur suspect says it was funny seeing fatally injured rapper in street moments after shooting
SELF-CONFESSED gangster Keefe D boasted in a sickening audio tape that seeing bullet-ridden Tupac Shakur moments after his assassination was “funny as a motherf**ker.”
Keefe - real name Duane Davis - confessed on an audio recording, obtained by The U.S. Sun, that he saw unconscious rapper Tupac, with paramedics frantically trying to save his life, and Suge Knight inside of an ambulance, after they had both been shot in Las Vegas.
5
5
5
The sick boast is now a key piece of prosecutors’ evidence in his trial for the murder of Shakur in 1996. He denies the murder charge.
The recording, made during a 2008 LAPD interview, also has Keefe laying out in detail how he orchestrated the assassination of the California Love rapper.
In over two hours of the secret cop confession, Keefe appears to laugh about how he oversaw the infamous crime.
Keefe believed that his interview was conducted with the promise of immunity from prosecution, but it was recently ruled that the tape could be used against him in court.
In the tape, Keefe explains how he led three gangsters to hunt Tupac down in a white rented Cadillac close to the Strip, then detailed the escape from cops.
After the shooting at a red light junction, Keefe claimed that they sped away, dumping the car in a parking lot.
Keefe said he and pals Terrence “Bubble Up” Brown, the driver, his nephew Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, and DeAndre “Dre” Smith, then walked up towards the Strip, where they planned to party at the Monte Carlo Hotel.
However in that time small space of time, Death Row Records boss Suge had sped his BMW up through the city - despite being injured himself - and come to a stop on the same section of the Strip, with dying Tupac in his passenger’s seat.
Most read in The US Sun
Keefe revealed on the recording, “And they pulled up in an ambulance while we were standing right here. You think I am bulls**tting you?
“We are on Las Vegas Boulevard at the crosswalk and they pulled up damn right next to us with Tupac and Suge in the car - this close.”
'WE DIDN'T GIVE A F**K'
Asked by an LAPD officer if the Death Row Records duo saw them, Keefe responded, “We didn’t give a f**k."
"The ambulance was parked right here next to us. That s**t was as funny as a motherf**ker.”
That night Tupac was taken to the hospital where doctors frantically tried to save him.
Tupac died six days later.
Keefe has given many media interviews boasting of his involvement in the crime. But his defense team insists that these claims were made for fame and monetary gain.
BIGGIE PROBE
However the taped confession - known as a Proffer - was secretly recorded by a special task force team in 2008, who were probing the death of Biggie Smalls in LA.
Short sections of the audio recording were first made public in the TV documentary Murder Rap: Inside the Biggie and Tupac Murders.
But the producer of Murder Rap and long-term investigator of the case, Mike Dorsey tells The U.S. Sun that the entire tape had never been released to the public until this week.
He said, “When we released parts of that proffer deal audio, the public were shocked...
“Now the whole two-and-a-half hour recording has been entered in evidence, the public can hear from Keefe D himself of his involvement in that fateful night.”
'LIED FOR FAME'
Keefe believed the tape could never be used as evidence against him, because he had secured immunity by corroborating with the LAPD in December 2008.
On Tuesday, prosecutor Binu Palal told Judge Carli Kierney that Keefe’s defense saying that he lied about his role in Tupac’s murder for fame and fortune, meant the full interview was now admissible evidence.
READ MORE SUN STORIES
Prosecutors plan to play the recording to a jury during the trial, currently set for June.
Keefe maintains he is not guilty of Tupac’s murder and was this week granted bail set at $750,000 with house monitoring.
5
5
Topics