In Compton Street Legend, Davis detailed what he claimed transpired before the shooting.
“When conversations would come up about a million dollar bounty on the heads of Suge Knight and Tupac Shakur, that was business,” Davis wrote in his book. “But after Tupac, Suge and them Death Row nikkas jumped on my nephew Baby Lane, the shyt became ominously personal.” (Davis has also claimed an alleged $1 million bounty on Knight and Shakur put out by Sean Combs as motivation; Combs, years later, called the bounty rumors “pure fiction and completely ridiculous.”)
According to Davis, he and his crew waited outside Club 662, but as time passed and Shakur and Death Row didn’t leave the nightclub, Davis’ crew instead made a “pit stop at the Liquor Barn” on their way to another club called the Carriage House. It was on the way there that they caught sight of Shakur waving at fans out of the window of his BMW.
“In unison all of our heads turned, ‘There them motherfukkers go right there.’ If Pac had not been hanging out of the window, we would have never seen them,” Davis wrote. Davis’ white Cadillac then pulled alongside the Death Row “caravan” and the vehicle with Knight and Shakur at a red light on Las Vegas Boulevard:
“The shyt was on! Tupac made an erratic move and began to reach down beneath his seat. It was the first and only time in my life that I could relate to the police command. ‘Keep your hands where I can see them.’ Instead, Pac pulled out a strap, and that’s when the fireworks started. One of my guys from the back seat grabbed the Glock and started bustin’ back.
The first shot skinned Suge in his head. I thought the motherfukker was dead. I heard stories that Suge supposedly used Tupac as a shield when the bullets started flying. But that’s some bullshyt. Suge was already wounded; he was the first one that got touched. As the rounds continued flying, I ducked down so that I wouldn’t get hit.
When the shooting stopped, we boned out, and a white Chrysler Sebring full of young ladies was following us. Their window quickly got shot out, so they stopped. The interesting thing to me was with all them rough ass nikkas they were supposed to have with them, none of them did a damn thing and tried to come after us. There was a lot of shots let off in both directions.
The car we were in was shot the fukk up. I don’t understand why people act like Tupac was an angel. shyt, the nikka had busted on some off-duty cops in Atlanta a few years earlier. So he wasn’t scared to bust. On top of that, by the time we rolled up he had to know the person they jumped on in the casino was a South Side Crip. So they had to be on high alert. When the shots settled a couple of people in our car had fragments and glass in their hair. But none of us had been hit.“
Davis said he and his crew quickly ditched the car they were driving, knowing the police would start looking for them, especially considering the noticeable damage that had been done to the vehicle during the shooting.
Retired Los Angeles police detective Greg Kading told the Associated Press that it was Keffe D’s own book that would likely, finally, result in charges in the 1996 murder.
“It’s those events that have given Las Vegas the ammunition and the leverage to move forward,” Kading said. “Prior to Keffe D’s public declarations, the cases were unprosecutable as they stood.”
Kading added, “He put himself squarely in the middle of the conspiracy. He had acquired the gun, he had given the gun to the shooter and he had been present in the vehicle when they hunted down and located both Tupac and Suge (Knight). All the other direct conspirators or participants are all dead. Keffe D is the last man standing among the individuals that conspired to kill Tupac.”
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“When conversations would come up about a million dollar bounty on the heads of Suge Knight and Tupac Shakur, that was business,” Davis wrote in his book. “But after Tupac, Suge and them Death Row nikkas jumped on my nephew Baby Lane, the shyt became ominously personal.” (Davis has also claimed an alleged $1 million bounty on Knight and Shakur put out by Sean Combs as motivation; Combs, years later, called the bounty rumors “pure fiction and completely ridiculous.”)
According to Davis, he and his crew waited outside Club 662, but as time passed and Shakur and Death Row didn’t leave the nightclub, Davis’ crew instead made a “pit stop at the Liquor Barn” on their way to another club called the Carriage House. It was on the way there that they caught sight of Shakur waving at fans out of the window of his BMW.
“In unison all of our heads turned, ‘There them motherfukkers go right there.’ If Pac had not been hanging out of the window, we would have never seen them,” Davis wrote. Davis’ white Cadillac then pulled alongside the Death Row “caravan” and the vehicle with Knight and Shakur at a red light on Las Vegas Boulevard:
“The shyt was on! Tupac made an erratic move and began to reach down beneath his seat. It was the first and only time in my life that I could relate to the police command. ‘Keep your hands where I can see them.’ Instead, Pac pulled out a strap, and that’s when the fireworks started. One of my guys from the back seat grabbed the Glock and started bustin’ back.
The first shot skinned Suge in his head. I thought the motherfukker was dead. I heard stories that Suge supposedly used Tupac as a shield when the bullets started flying. But that’s some bullshyt. Suge was already wounded; he was the first one that got touched. As the rounds continued flying, I ducked down so that I wouldn’t get hit.
When the shooting stopped, we boned out, and a white Chrysler Sebring full of young ladies was following us. Their window quickly got shot out, so they stopped. The interesting thing to me was with all them rough ass nikkas they were supposed to have with them, none of them did a damn thing and tried to come after us. There was a lot of shots let off in both directions.
The car we were in was shot the fukk up. I don’t understand why people act like Tupac was an angel. shyt, the nikka had busted on some off-duty cops in Atlanta a few years earlier. So he wasn’t scared to bust. On top of that, by the time we rolled up he had to know the person they jumped on in the casino was a South Side Crip. So they had to be on high alert. When the shots settled a couple of people in our car had fragments and glass in their hair. But none of us had been hit.“
Davis said he and his crew quickly ditched the car they were driving, knowing the police would start looking for them, especially considering the noticeable damage that had been done to the vehicle during the shooting.
Retired Los Angeles police detective Greg Kading told the Associated Press that it was Keffe D’s own book that would likely, finally, result in charges in the 1996 murder.
“It’s those events that have given Las Vegas the ammunition and the leverage to move forward,” Kading said. “Prior to Keffe D’s public declarations, the cases were unprosecutable as they stood.”
Kading added, “He put himself squarely in the middle of the conspiracy. He had acquired the gun, he had given the gun to the shooter and he had been present in the vehicle when they hunted down and located both Tupac and Suge (Knight). All the other direct conspirators or participants are all dead. Keffe D is the last man standing among the individuals that conspired to kill Tupac.”
