Overview
- A 12‑member Las Vegas jury found Duane “Keffe D” Davis guilty of first‑degree murder on Monday after about three hours of deliberation following a weeks‑long trial.
- Prosecutors built their case largely on Davis’s own statements from a 2008 police interview, recorded conversations, media appearances and his memoir rather than recovered physical evidence.
- Under Nevada law the jury convicted Davis as an organizer who supplied the weapon and ordered the attack even though prosecutors did not accuse him of firing the fatal shots.
- Investigators never recovered the white Cadillac or the gun linked to the shooting and three men prosecutors say were in the Cadillac have since died, leaving Davis as the only person charged.
- Davis, 63, remains jailed ahead of an October 13 sentencing when he faces a possible life term without parole and has told the court he will appeal the conviction.