Duane "Keffe D" Davis pleaded not guilty to the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur during an arraignment Thursday, Nov. 2.

Davis, 60, also waived his right to have a jury trial within 60 days of the arraignment and was assigned a public defender to represent him along with attorneys Robert Arroyo and Charles Cano.

Keffe D was arrested in Henderson, Nevada on September 29, with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) saying they were able to form a case against the former Los Angeles gang member after years of Davis detailing the alleged incident through several media outlets.

After being taken into custody, Davis was charged with one count of murder with a gang enhancement.

“For 27 years, the family of Tupac Shakur has been waiting for justice,” LVMPD Sheriff Kevin McMahill said in a press conference after Davis was arrested. “It has taken countless hours and many decades of work by the men and women of our homicide section to get to where we are today. While I know there’s been many people who did not believe that the murder of Tupac Shakur was not important to this police department, I’m here to tell you that was simply not the case. It was not the case back then and it is not the case today.”

LVMPD investigators said that a fight inside the MGM Grand Casino led to the Sept. 7, 1996 shooting that took Shakur's life.

Surveillance footage from the casino placed Davis at the scene of the fight, with investigators believing he was also in the Cadillac vehicle where the shots later came from.

In a 2019 memoir titled "Compton Street Legend: Notorious Keffe D’s Street-Level Accounts of Tupac and Biggie Murders, Death Row Origins, Suge Knight, Puffy Combs, and Crooked Cops," Davis recalls several moments before and after the shooting.

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