Keffe D Refuses Plea Deal Days Before Trial Begins

Keffe D maintains his innocence while his own memoir and interviews detail his alleged role in Tupac’s 1996 murder.

Keffe D sat down behind bars just days before his trial kicks off, and the whole thing’s a contradiction wrapped in a contradiction.

He’s denying everything about Tupac’s 1996 murder, yet he’s already told the world his version of events in a 2019 memoir and multiple interviews.

The 63-year-old faces charges for orchestrating the killing, but when 8 News Now investigators pressed him on whether he had anything to do with it, he was crystal clear.

“No, ma’am. I wasn’t even in Nevada. I wasn’t even in Nevada, period,” he said.

In “Compton Street Legend,” Davis claimed he was sitting in the front passenger seat when Tupac got shot on September 7, 1996.

His nephew Orlando Anderson, a Crips gang member, was supposedly in the backseat with the gun when he saw Suge Knight driving his BMW with Tupac in the passenger seat.

Anderson shot up the BMW. Knight was shot in the head but survived the shooting, while Tupac died days later.

Davis’s explanation for why he wrote all this down and talked about it publicly? Money.

“I was just after the money. I did it for the money. You know what I’m saying?” he told WCPO.

When asked if anyone warned him that confessing to involvement in a murder could land him in prison, Davis claimed he didn’t even write the book himself.

“I didn’t write that book. I don’t know nothing about no Winston Churchill, Frank Sinatra. Just read the book,” he said, which is a wild defense considering his name’s on the cover.

He’s also pushing back hard against prosecutors calling him a high-ranking gang member.

“No, I’m not. There’s no color line. I’m messing with the Bloods, Crips, everybody,” Davis said. “I helped Suge Knight get that record company [Death Row Records] going. Why would I kill the guy that’s making us the most money? Why would I kill our money man? It don’t make sense. Suge Knight will tell you that I didn’t do it.”

Defense attorney Michael Samft recently took over his case, but they’re facing an uphill battle.

A judge ruled on July 28 that Davis’s 2008 police interview and his memoir are admissible as evidence, a massive blow to the defense team’s strategy.

When asked about taking a plea deal, Davis refused outright.

“I’m not going to take no plea deal because I didn’t do nothing. I’m 63. I had a cancer battle. I got three stints to my heart. The average American lives to be like 74 years old. Ten years, I’m dead. So why would I want to take a plea deal?”

Jury selection begins August 10, 2026, and defense attorney Samft has already signaled he’ll challenge the admissibility of Davis’s statements during opening arguments.

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