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Tupac Shakur murder trial and sentencing 2026
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FIRST ENTRY OCT 13
OCT 13 · Day 1
Ex-gang boss sentenced to 40 years for orchestrating Tupac Shakur's murder
Maurice Shakur, Tupac's brother, asked the judge for the longest possible sentence.
Prosecutors argued Davis ordered the shooting and supplied the gun that his nephew Orlando Anderson used to open fire.
Davis was a former leader of the South Side Compton Crips street gang.
OCT 13 · Day 1
Ex-gang leader sentenced to 40 years to life for Tupac Shakur murder
Davis is the only person who was in the Cadillac that evening who is still alive.
Judge Carli Kierny announced the sentence at a hearing in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Davis admitted in his memoir to handing the murder weapon to two alleged accomplices seated in the backseat of a white Cadillac who fired the fatal shots.