2Pac‘s murder suspect Keefe D alleged that he is a victim of evidence tampering in a dramatic courtroom outburst.
During a hearing to decide whether the alleged killer will be bonded out of jail, Keefe (real name Duane Davis) launched into a rant aimed at former LAPD detective Greg Kading, who he claims is responsible for new evidence which he had also tampered with.
“Greg Kading had them boxes in his house for 15 years in his attic doing all kind of TV interviews,” the former Compton Crip said. “Them boxes should not be allowed … it is tainted evidence. The man broke a proffer agreement.
“And he broke the law. All kinds of stuff […] This man has been going in them boxes for years. A federal judge in L.A. did a 142-page thing about him. Look it up on the internet.”
When the judge pushed back, Keefe retorted: “They just used something in them boxes! From 1996. He knows what he did. They not only ugly on the outside, but they ugly on the inside.”
Tupac murder suspect Keefe D goes off in court and tells the judge that former LA detective Greg Kading broke a proffer agreement and the law.
Also, Keefe D tells the judge that the boxes of evidence Greg Kading has are from 1996 and shouldn’t be allowed because it’s tainted… pic.twitter.com/VjPp8Ha7vp
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The new evidence Keefe D is upset about includes audio recordings of him speaking to Kading during a 2009 police interview about his alleged role in 2Pac’s murder.
It was during this interview that Keefe claimed that Diddy had offered him $1 million to kill both Suge Knight and 2Pac at the height of the beef between Bad Boy and Death Row Records in the mid 1990s.
He also told detectives that the Bad Boy mogul paid half the money to his associate, Harlem gangster Eric “Von Zip” Martin, after ‘Pac was gunned down in Las Vegas in September 1996.
Keefe was reportedly told that his statements could not be used against him in court (what’s known as a proffer agreement). But according to Kading, the agreement only protected Keefe when that information was kept confidential.
The ex-gang member has spoken at length about his involvement in 2Pac’s murder in various interviews, as well as his 2019 book Compton Street Legend, admitting to being in the car when the rap legend was killed in a drive-by shooting.
The judge presiding over the case said that the courts have not yet decided what evidence, if any, would be excluded from the trial.
Keefe D and his legal team would have to file a motion to exclude evidence such as the tapes.
The judge has also yet to rule on Keefe’s request for bail as authorities continue to get to the bottom of where his $750,000 bond came from.
The 61-year-old made headlines earlier this week when it was claimed in a new legal filing by prosecutors that he once went undercover in an attempt to implicate Diddy and Von Zip in 2Pac’s murder.
Despite being mentioned in the filing 77 times, Puffy has yet to be subpoenaed or indicted in connection with the long-unsolved killing.
He previously denied any involvement, telling L.A. Weekly in 2011 that Keefe D’s bounty claim was “pure fiction and completely ridiculous.”
Keefe D has pleaded not guilty to murdering 2Pac. His trial is scheduled to begin later this year.
