Duane Davis convicted in 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur

Nearly thirty years after a white Cadillac pulled alongside Tupac Shakur's car on a Las Vegas street and gunfire ended one of hip-hop's most luminous lives, a jury has delivered the first conviction in a case that became a kind of open wound in American popular culture. Duane 'Keffe D' Davis, 63, was found guilty of orchestrating the 1996 killing — not as the man who pulled the trigger, but as the man who, prosecutors argued, acquired the weapon and set the violence in motion. The verdict arrived swiftly, in under three hours, closing a legal chapter even as deeper questions about that Septemb