What to Know About the First Week of a Trial in the 1996 Killing of Tupac Shakur
Jurors heard police recordings and witness testimony as prosecutors said Davis arranged the shooting in revenge after Tupac Shakur beat up his nephew.
- On Monday, the murder trial of Duane Davis began in Las Vegas for the 1996 drive-by shooting that killed Tupac Shakur, with prosecutors alleging Davis orchestrated the killing as "an act of revenge."
- Tensions escalated after Shakur and Marion "Suge" Knight brawled with Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson outside the MGM Grand Garden Arena; later that night, assailants in a white Cadillac opened fire on the pair's BMW.
- On Thursday and Friday, jurors heard 2008 and 2009 recordings where Davis identified Anderson as the shooter, while witness Leonard Jefferson testified Friday about photographing the duo with a 35 millimeter camera moments before the attack.
- Defense attorney Michael W. Sanft argued his client's statements were fiction, though recordings revealed Davis suggested Sean "Diddy" Combs, then known as "Puffy," was involved in conversations about the killing.
- The trial is expected to continue for several more weeks, with a jury of six men and 10 women determining if Davis is guilty of murder with a deadly weapon, a charge carrying a potential life sentence.
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Tupac Shakur murder trial: What to know about the first week - Los Angeles Wave Newspaper Group
By ANDREW DALTON JESSICA HILL and REBECCA BOONE Contributing Writers LAS VEGAS (AP) — The first week of the Tupac Shakur murder trial covered old ground in many ways, but it largely centered on one crucial point: Did the man accused of killing the hip hop icon admit old truths in earlier confessions or is he effectively “full of crap,” as his own lawyer says. That’s the core question jurors will have to decide in a high-profile trial that’s expe…
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What to know about the first week of a trial in the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur
LAS VEGAS (AP) — In the first week of testimony at the trial of a man accused of orchestrating the killing of Tupac Shakur, the night of Sept. 7, 1996, has been run and rerun many times — through police who were at the scene, through the people near the hip-hop superstar, and through the recorded words of the suspect, Duane “Keffe D” Davis.
Tupac Shakur Murder Trial Reopens One of Hip-Hop’s Deepest Wounds
Nearly 30 years after Tupac Shakur was gunned down on a Las Vegas street, one of the most haunting mysteries in hip-hop history is finally being argued before a jury. Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 63, is on trial in Nevada, accused by prosecutors of helping orchestrate the September 1996 drive-by shooting that killed Shakur at just 25 years old. Davis has pleaded not guilty and is not accused of being the person who fired the fatal shots. Prosecutors i…
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