News of December 4, 2007
"Suge Knight had Tupac killed"? A claim from 2007
In late 2007, the site reported that Suge Knight had Tupac murdered. Arrests never followed-in 2026, a Las Vegas jury found Keffe D guilty.
“Suge Knight had 2Pac Shakur killed!” With this headline, the site spoke out on December 4, 2007. Eleven years after the crime, former Death Row bodyguard Kevin Hackie had reportedly come forward, naming Suge Knight as the mastermind of the murder. Hackie identified himself as a former FBI agent (by his own account working undercover for the FBI; other reports call him an FBI informant).
Arrests would soon follow, the post announced. As a possible motive, the article cited millions in debt that Knight allegedly owed Tupac. The author also pointed to a theory of his own on the site’s blog.
A Witness with Memory Lapses
The report presented a claim as fact. It did not state exactly where Hackie’s statements came from. By that point, Hackie was already a controversial witness: In the civil lawsuit brought by the family of The Notorious B.I.G. against the City of Los Angeles, he had submitted declarations implicating Knight and police officer David Mack. In 2005, on the eve of the trial, he admitted according to the Los Angeles Times that he suffered from memory lapses caused by psychiatric medication; the family’s lawyers, he claimed, had altered his declarations. He took responsibility for a false declaration.
In the fall of 2007, the theory of Knight’s guilt was also circulating through the documentary Tupac Assassination: Conspiracy or Revenge, produced by Tupac’s former bodyguard Frank Alexander. More on this in the archive note On the trail of 2Pac’s killer: the Suge Knight case.
Knight Was Never Charged, Keffe D Was Found Guilty
The announced arrests never materialized. Suge Knight was never charged in the Tupac case. In 2017, he himself claimed he might have been the actual target of the attack. He is in prison for a different reason: in 2018, he accepted 28 years in prison for manslaughter after running a man over with his car in 2015.
The investigation ultimately led in a different direction. On August 31, 2026, a Las Vegas jury found Duane “Keffe D” Davis, former leader of the South Side Compton Crips, guilty of first-degree murder. According to prosecutors, the motive was revenge for the fight involving his nephew Orlando Anderson hours before the crime. As of October 2026: the verdict is not final (Davis announced he would appeal), and sentencing is scheduled for October 13, 2026.