Las Vegas jury returns verdict against ex-South Side Compton Crips gang leader in killing of US rap legendThirty years of waiting, a memoir and a trial: conviction in Tupac Shakur killing brings closure A Las Vegas jury has found former South Side Compton Crips gang leader Duane Keith Davis guilty of the murder of Tupac Shakur, bringing the case to a close nearly 30 years after the famous rapper was gunned down. The jury took about three hours to reach a guilty verdict in a case that relied heavily on multiple confessions from Davis himself, including his description of the killing in the 2019 memoir Compton Street Legend.