Las Vegas Detective Is Final Defense Witness In Keffe D’s Tupac Murder Trial

“The final defense witness in Duane “Keffe D” Davis’ trial over Tupac Shakur’s 1996 shooting was Dan Long, a retired detective with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. Long was in the gang unit in 1996 and transferred to the homicide unit in 2000. He was patrolling near Flamingo and Koval on Sept. 7, 1996, when he heard gunshots. 02:36 “You can see where the streets and the alleys had been right here. There used to be an apartment complex right there. There was one alley, two streets, and the area command that had that area wanted us to check to see if these were gang members. We went in. We stopped some juvenile males. They were not gang members. They were just juvenile males.” 03:48 “it was packed. … There was people everywhere. People walking. Traffic was fully backed up. We had to to get into the intersection. We had to use. We were in unmarked cars, so we were in plain cars. We moved into the intersection using red lights and sirens. We moved across. People were waving at us and pointing.” “There was a vehicle there that became of interest to us. Some girls had been shot at. While we had gotten out to talk to them and find out what was going on, we had no idea this was attached to anything. One of the guys on my team, Dino Kelly, found some cartridge cases in the street, so we started moving our vehicles in the area to block off traffic so they wouldn’t get run over, and putting up yellow tape.” 05:50 “During the time period that you were in homicide, were you ever assigned the case involving the Tupac murder?” “Yes.” 06:39 “I went down to California. There was a lot in that file, and I didn’t, I didn’t know Compton very well. I didn’t know Compton at all, so I went down. I had ridden in the gang unit with gang detectives, and I knew them still. So I called and said, ‘Can you take me around and show me these things?’ So we drove around Compton. They showed me houses where the Compton Crips lived. They showed me where Orlando Anderson died.” 08:08 “I didn’t do any investigation in this, but my lieutenant told me that people had been going in and and being curious, looking at the file.” 08:38 “They locked down the file itself, which was the hard copy of the file. We used to, at that time, we were on a computer drive called the F drive, which turned out to be too small, and they later moved it to another drive because homicide just kept growing, so they they changed the way I did my reports. I would hand them in, and they were secure.” “The one that popped into my mind, the very first one, there was a supposedly this was an anonymous tip that there was a Rolling 60 apartment over on Reno that was slinging drugs, and that the people that shot Tupac had driven up to this apartment and handed the gun off for drugs. … I’m talking eight years after the fact. I’m talking about trying to find an apartment rented by a girl that has association with the Rolling Stones. 60s, I never found it.” 12:37 “I received a phone call from the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department saying that there was a gun recovered by Compton PD in 1998, the yard of 1301 Sloan, which is inside the Compton area, the Compton Cripps area, I should say, and they believe that this gun was possibly it was supposedly buried in the backyard.” 15:23 2009 Keffe D interview 20:41 questions about Darnell Brill, South Side Crips gang leader 22:37 “I was told that he had been Duane Davis was arrested on a drug, a major drug case, and he was facing the rest of his life in prison, and that he was trying to work that case off. So when I was sitting out there and I learned that he’s sitting there with his attorney, I’m like, he’s not going to tell me anything. They’re like, well, he’s trying to work this off, and it’s about Tupac…” 23:05 “I received some phone calls at that point, and received more information when we got back to Vegas that there could be possibly a proffer, which made no sense to me.” 23:40 cross-exam by Marc DiGiacomo, chief deputy district attorney in Clark County, Nevada 24:18 “You already had an understanding from Mike Franks and Brent Becker of who you thought was in the car?” “Yes, sir.” “And when Mr. Davis in 2009 tells you that it’s the same people?” “Yes.” 32:02 “we still don’t know the circumstances surrounding why those three people were in a room talking to you.” “No, I believed I did at that time, but obviously I didn’t. ‘ 32:22 re-direct 33:18 “They told me to stand down and they were going to review it. I got I got the information to them as quickly as I could. Had to be typed up by one of our secretaries, but I did make sure they got the audio as quick as they could. There was plenty of probable cause to arrest for murder” 37:52 re-cross 38:02 “There was a substantial amount of information in this file that Mr. Davis, Mr. Brown, Mr. Anderson and Mr. Smith were in the car the night when the murder occurred?” “Yes.” 38:48 juror questions”