Three hours. That’s how long it took a jury to close a wound that had been open for 30 years.
When the judge read the verdict against Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 63, he did not so much as change his expression. But in the courtroom, Tupac Shakur’s sister could not hold back her tears and embraced a prosecutor. Other relatives cried nearby, and outside the courthouse, fans who grew up with the rapper’s music cried too, mixing their pain with something resembling relief.
Tupac was just 25 and at the height of his career when he was killed in 1996, after selling more than 75 million records. His death remained a mystery for decades, until Davis himself revealed in a memoir how he handed the gun to his nephew. Now, before he is sentenced on October 13, he only managed to say one sentence: he wants to appeal.