Duane Davis convicted in Tupac Shakur’s killing after years of public retellings

Coming up on 30 years since Tupac Shakur was gunned down in Las Vegas, there is now a conviction in his murder

A jury has found Dwayne Keefe D. Davis guilty of first-degree murder

Prosecutors never claimed 63-year-old Davis pulled the trigger. They said he orchestrated the attack, providing the gun and helping set in motion the ambush that killed one of hip-hop's most influential artists

Jurors deliberated for less than three hours after a week's long trial

Davis did not testify, and after the verdict, he told the judge he plans to appeal

He's set to be sentenced October 13th and could spend the rest of his life in prison

I feel like KPD was his own worst enemy. I really do

I think he did it to himself. I think in a way I'm kind of glad he did it to some stuff because if he's responsible for it

no somebody just didn't get away with killing my friend. Shakur was riding with Death Row Records

co-founder Marion Shug Knight when a Cadillac pulled up beside their BMW on the Las Vegas strip

on September 7th 1996 and someone fired on them. Knight was wounded. Shakur died six days later

He was just 25. Prosecutors say the shooting was retaliation for a fight hours earlier

when Shakur, Knight, and others attacked Davis' nephew, Orlando Anderson, inside the MGM Grand

And much of the case against Davis came from Davis himself. Over the years, he talked about the shooting in a police interview, documentaries, and his own memoir

His defense argues those accounts were fiction, stories Davis told for money and attention

The jury didn't buy it