Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis sentenced to 40 years to life over Tupac Shakur’s murder
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Duane “Keffe D” Davis, the former California gang leader convicted of murder for orchestrating the 1996 fatal shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur, has been sentenced to 40 years to life in prison.
前加利福尼亚帮派头目杜安"凯菲·D"·戴维斯因策划1996年说唱歌手图派克·沙库尔的致命枪击案被判谋杀罪，现被判处40年至终身监禁。
“For three years, I’ve heard you say some variation of the same thing … ‘Yeah, I was involved in this. But I’m different. I’ve moved on. I got out of Compton. I’m a grandfather now,’” Judge Carli Kierny said Tuesday as she delivered the sentence.
"三年来，我听你说过类似的话......'是的，我参与了这件事。 但我不一样。 我已经放下了。 我从康普顿出来了。 我现在是个祖父了，'"法官卡莉·基尔尼周二宣判时说。
“You don’t get to take a man from his family. You don’t get to take his very life, his whole future from him and just walk away from it,” Kierny continued.
"你不能把男人从家人身边带走。 你不能夺走他的生命，他的整个未来，然后就这样离开，"基尔尼继续说道。
On 7 September 1996, Shakur was gunned down near the Las Vegas strip shortly after a Mike Tyson boxing match. He succumbed to his injuries days later.
1996年9月7日，沙库尔在拉斯维加斯大道附近一场迈克·泰森拳击赛后不久被枪杀。 几天后，他因伤势不治身亡。
For decades, his murder remained unsolved and one of hip-hop’s most enduring mysteries. Davis is the only person to be convicted in connection to Shakur’s murder.
几十年来，他的谋杀案一直未解，是嘻哈界最持久的谜团之一。 戴维斯是唯一与沙库尔谋杀案有关被定罪的人。
“It was hard sitting, listening over and over and over again to someone describe – bit by bit, how they hunted Tupac Amaru Shakur down,” the rapper’s sister, Sekyiwa Shakur, said on Tuesday minutes before Davis was sentenced.
"坐着，一遍又一遍地听有人描述——一点点地——他们如何追捕图帕克·阿马鲁·沙库尔，真是很难受，"说唱歌手的妹妹塞基瓦·沙库尔在戴维斯被判刑前的周二说道。
She described her brother as a father figure. “He was who God trusted to take care of me,” she told the court.
她形容哥哥像父亲一样。 "他是上帝所信任来照顾我的人，"她在法庭上说。
The grief from her brother’s murder led Sekyiwa Shakur to be hospitalized several times for depression, suicidal ideation and PTSD, she said.
她说，因兄弟被杀的悲痛，Sekyiwa Shakur多次因抑郁症、自杀念头和创伤后应激障碍住院。
She and the rapper’s stepbrother, Maurice Shakur, called for Davis to face the maximum penalty.
她和这位说唱歌手的继兄莫里斯·沙库尔呼吁戴维斯接受最高刑罚。
“Time to sit down and contemplate what you’ve done to the world, not just to me,” Sekyiwa Shakur said.
"是时候坐下来好好反思你对世界所做的一切，而不仅仅是对我，"Sekyiwa Shakur说。
Davis stared intently, but appeared stoic as the relatives spoke. He vowed earlier during the hearing to appeal the case.
戴维斯目不转睛地盯着，但面对亲属们交谈时显得冷静。 他在听证会上早些时候曾誓言要对此案提出上诉。
A confluence of several factors hindered the investigation. The code of silence within street culture made some witnesses averse to police cooperation. Las Vegas police were skeptical about leads from their Compton counterparts, given that the head of security for Shakur’s record label was a former Compton cop.
多种因素共同阻碍了调查。 街头文化中的沉默守则使一些目击者对警方合作持反感态度。 拉斯维加斯警方对康普顿警方的线索持怀疑态度，因为沙库尔唱片公司的安保负责人曾是康普顿警察。
Orlando Anderson, a gangster and Davis’s nephew, was on law enforcement’s radar as the possible gunman. The night Shakur was killed, the young rap star got into an altercation with Anderson. Las Vegas police interviewed Anderson, but he was never arrested. Anderson later died in 1998.
奥兰多·安德森，一名黑帮分子，也是戴维斯的侄子，曾被执法部门视为可能的枪手。 沙库尔被杀的那晚，这位年轻说唱明星与安德森发生了冲突。 拉斯维加斯警方采访了安德森，但他从未被捕。 安德森后来于1998年去世。
But then, in 2023, Davis was arrested on a murder charge.
但随后，在2023，戴维斯因谋杀罪被捕。
It was Davis’s own media tour, touting his status as one of the last surviving eyewitnesses, and a 2019 “tell-all” memoir that led to the breakthrough.
这是戴维斯自己的媒体之旅，吹捧他作为最后幸存的目击者之一的地位，以及导致突破的2019"tell-all"回忆录。
Davis had felt emboldened by a 2008 backdoor deal he brokered with police. He spoke candidly to investigators about Shakur’s shooting, who had actually been seeking information about the death of Christopher Wallace, known as Biggie Smalls or The Notorious BIG. Under a proffer agreement, Davis was not to face charges for any offenses he shared.
戴维斯对他与警方斡旋的2008后门交易感到底气十足。 他坦率地向调查人员讲述了Shakur的枪击事件，他实际上一直在寻求有关克里斯托弗华莱士死亡的信息，被称为Biggie Smalls或臭名昭着的BIG。 根据proffer协议，戴维斯不会因他分享的任何罪行而面临指控。
In his memoir, Compton Street Legend, Davis wrote that he and a group of other men targeted Shakur and his entourage, seeking retribution for the scuffle with his nephew.
在他的回忆录中，康普顿街传奇，戴维斯写道，他和一群其他男人瞄准了沙库尔及其随行人员，寻求报复与他的侄子的混战。
The memoir and the interview became central to prosecutors’ case. They argued the details amounted to a confession and that his public remarks voided the proffer agreement.
回忆录和采访成为检察官案件的核心。 他们认为这些细节相当于一个供词，他的公开言论使proffer协议无效。
During Davis’s murder trial, his defense team maintained that these details were embellished. They also argued, during the trial, that there was no physical evidence, such as a murder weapon, tying Davis to the Las Vegas slaying.
在戴维斯的谋杀案审判期间，他的辩护团队坚持认为这些细节被修饰了。 他们还在审判中辩称，没有物证，比如凶器，将戴维斯与拉斯维加斯谋杀案联系起来。
Ultimately, jurors sided with the state.
最终，陪审员支持了州方。
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