Duane Keffe D makes first court appearance for Tupac Shakur murder case

The man charged with murder over the death of Tupac Shakur 27 years ago made his first court appearance in Las Vegas Wednesday.

Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 60, walked into the courtroom dressed in black jail garb and slightly limped as he faced a judge. During the hearing he said he has a lawyer, meaning his case is able to proceed.

After the brief hearing he was sent back to the Clark County Detention Center, where a source told The Post Davis is being kept away from other inmates and had been placed in the medical unit.

“They don’t want anyone interacting with him … clearly they are concerned he will get whacked,” said the source. “He is definitely being guarded. Other prisoners are not permitted to go near where he is being kept.”

A Nevada grand jury indicted Davis on a murder with use of a deadly weapon along with a gang enhancement over the 1996 drive-by shooting of the “All Eyez On Me” rapper on the Las Vegas strip.

After Wednesday court hearing, Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson told reporters Davis — a self-cofessed member of the South Side Compton Crips gang — will remain in jail until his next court appearance.

“The proof is evident and the presumption is great that he will be convicted of first-degree murder, which allows us to ask for a no bail setting,” Wolfson said.

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police served a search warrant in July at the Henderson, Nevada home of  Davis’ wife, Pamela Clemons, as part of the investigation.

Investigators confiscated several computers, laptops and iPads from the home, as well as .40 caliber cartridges, according to a search warrant obtained by The Post.

Shakur’s death had remained unsolved since he was gunned down on Sept. 7, 1996 by someone inside a white Cadillac.

Davis wrote in his memoir “Compton Street Legend” his nephew Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson was the one who fatally shot Shakur from the back seat of the car.

However, Chief Deputy District Attorney Marc DiGiacomo said Davis was the “on-ground, on-site commander” and “shot caller” of the crew and he “ordered the death” of Shakur, rather than being a mere bystander.

Anderson had always denied pulling the trigger. He died in 1998 in another gang shooting. The other two men in the car, Terrence Brown and DeAndre Smith are also now dead.

In his tell-all book, Davis wrote he agreed to speak to local authorities and the FBI about the shooting in exchange for them dropping drug charges in a federal case for which he was facing life in prison.

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Greg Kading, a retired Los Angeles Police detective who spent years investigating Shakur’s murder, told The Post Davis’ agreement does not cover interviews he has given since and his book, in which he had readily admitted to obtaining the gun and being at the murder scene.

“Everything that he has said outside of that original proffer is not protected, so everything he has said publicly is self-incriminating evidence,” Kading told The Post.

Davis said he was in the Cadillac during the drive-by on the rapper and then-Death Row Records CEO Marion “Suge” Knight, who was driving the car the rapper was riding in.

“When we pulled up, I was in the front seat,” Davis revealed in a 2018 BET interview.”Happen to see my friend, Suge.”

“You said the shots came from the back,” the interviewer asks Davis. “Who shot Tupac?”

“Going to keep it for the code of the streets,” Davis said. “It just came from the backseat, bro.”

Nevada does not have a statute of limitations on prosecuting murder cases.