Keefe D, a key figure in one of hip hop’s most notorious cases, has been accused of the murder of rapper Tupac Shakur in 2023.
He is set to face trial in March and has pleaded not guilty to the charges. While in prison, Keefe D was involved in a violent altercation with another inmate at Clark County Detention Center in Las Vegas, resulting in additional criminal charges.
He also put his fellow inmate in a headlock. It took a prison guard spraying both inmates with pepper spray for the fight to be broken up. Keefe D is being charged with battery by the other inmate. He told officers that the incident was not his fault, however. The murder suspect alleges he was merely “standing his ground.”
Despite his claims of innocence in Tupac’s murder, Keefe D has made troubling statements about the late rapper in the past. In his memoir released in 2019, he suggested that Tupac deserved his fate.
Keefe D has maintained his innocence regarding the Tupac murder. That said, the career criminal has made some alarming statements about the rapper over the years.
In his 2019 memoir Compton Street Legend, Keefe made it clear that Tupac got his just desserts. “Tupac chose the wrong game to play and the wrong n**gas to play with,” he asserted. “Suge and them should have done a better job of protecting that dude because they knew who the f*ck we were and the kind of sh*t we were capable of.”
Keefe also hinted at his involvement in Tupac’s death during a VLAD TV interview. The host asked the current inmate who shot Tupac. He refused to answer, but suggested that he knew.
“I’m not gonna go into details on that one,” Keefe explained. “Keep the streets, homie.” The Tupac murder trial was initially set for November, 2024, but was pushed back. It’s set to begin on March 17.
