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First Week of Testimony Concludes in Tupac Shakur Murder Trial
Suge Knight is serving a 28-year prison sentence for another Compton dispute that turned deadly.
Davis is a former leader of the South Side Compton Crips, which was a rival of the Mob Piru Bloods, a gang affiliated with Knight.
By Friday more than a dozen witnesses had testified, including photographer Leonard Jefferson, who took one of the last known photographs of Shakur alive.
“I don't want to send you to prison,”
Police Interview Recording of Duane Davis Played in Tupac Shakur Murder Trial
Prosecutors argued that Davis' 2019 memoir and public interviews negated his proffer deal, leading the trial judge to allow the recording into evidence.
Davis alleged in the police recording that Sean 'Diddy' Combs offered him $1 million to kill Shakur and Marion 'Suge' Knight.
A 2008 recorded interview between Duane Davis and law enforcement was played in court on Thursday.
“Pac pulled out a strap, and that’s when the fireworks started. One of my guys from the back seat grabbed the Glock and started bustin’ back,”
Tupac Shakur Murder Trial Hears Testimony on Duane 'Keffe D' Davis Statements
Los Angeles police detectives originally interviewed Duane Davis in 2008 during their investigation into the killing of Christopher Wallace, also known as The Notorious B.I.G.
Duane 'Keffe D' Davis is on trial in Las Vegas, charged with one count of murder with a deadly weapon for the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur.
Duane Davis has pleaded not guilty.
“Orlando (Anderson), him and certain other people were being sought because people wanted to kill them.”
Witness dodges questions at Tupac Shakur murder trial
Palal told jurors that Davis later confessed to his role when he gave a “secret 2008 interview” to authorities in connection with a California drug case that could have sent him to prison for life.
McDonald told jurors he was working at Knight’s Vegas nightclub, Club 662, when he learned Shakur and Knight had been wounded in a drive-by shooting on Sept. 7, 1996.
Clark County Deputy District Attorney Binu Palal said Davis obtained the .40-caliber Glock used in the attack and was riding in the front passenger seat of a white Cadillac with Anderson and two other men when Anderson allegedly opened fire.
“Orlando (Anderson), him and certain other people were being sought because people wanted to kill them.”
Witness testimony in Tupac Shakur murder trial
Shakur died in hospital six days after the shooting
Prosecutors allege Davis, a former leader of the South Side Compton Crips street gang, planned the shooting after his nephew Orlando Anderson was involved in a fight with Shakur hours earlier
McDonald was questioned by Davis's defence attorney Michael Sanft about whether he witnessed the attack
“Orlando (Anderson), him and certain other people were being sought because people wanted to kill them.”
Tupac Shakur murder trial opens
Opening statements began on Monday after a week of jury selection
The former officer testified that he rode in an ambulance with Shakur and that Shakur refused to say who shot him, saying "We'll take care of it"
Davis has said he did not write all of the memoir and that parts were fictionalised to sell more copies
“Let's be clear, Duane Davis did not pull the trigger. But he did plan the shooting in retaliation of the beating of his nephew,”
Trial begins in 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur
The judge, with prosecutors' agreement, told jurors that police do not believe Davis was involved in the Notorious B.I.G. shooting
Members of Shakur's family, including his stepbrother Maurice "Mopreme" Shakur, were in the courtroom audience as prosecutors played audio of Davis
Davis is 63 years old and could get life in prison if convicted of murder with a deadly weapon with the intent to promote, further or assist a criminal gang
“Let's be clear, Duane Davis did not pull the trigger. But he did plan the shooting in retaliation of the beating of his nephew,”
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Davis had previously claimed to be sitting in the front passenger seat of the killer's car.
Tupac Shakur was in Las Vegas to watch the boxing match between Mike Tyson and Bruce Seldon on Sept. 7, 1996, at the MGM Grand.
Davis is charged with helping orchestrate the drive-by shooting by supplying the 40-caliber Glock the gunman used.
“And he went and did his little investigation and wrote the book on his own.”