Tupac shooting trial begins with opening statements
Prosecutors say Duane Keith Davis planned the retaliatory drive-by and supplied the gun, while jurors may hear his memoir and earlier statements.
- Nearly 30 years after hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur's 1996 killing, the murder trial for Duane 'Keffe D' Davis began this week in Las Vegas, marking the first prosecution in the case.
- Prosecutors allege Davis orchestrated the drive-by shooting as retaliation after his nephew, Orlando Anderson, was attacked by Shakur and his entourage at the MGM Grand following a Mike Tyson fight.
- Evidence includes Davis' 2019 memoir 'Compton Street Legend' and a 2009 proffer agreement where he admitted his role, though he recently claimed in an 8 News Now interview he wasn't in Nevada.
- Davis, 63, has pleaded not guilty to murder with a deadly weapon. Potential witnesses include music mogul Sean 'Diddy' Combs and Death Row Records founder Marion 'Suge' Knight, though Knight expressed reluctance to testify.
- The trial addresses one of music history's most famous unsolved cases, arriving nearly 30 years after the shooting and reflecting the violent rivalry between Los Angeles-based gangs that defined the era.
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Tupac Shakur Murder Trail: Main Accused Duane Davis Retracts Claims Made in Memoir
Davis had claimed in his memoir of providing the gun that was used to shoot Tupac. Meanwhile a key witness also refused to snitch on Davis. Will the gangster street code of the 90s impede trial after 30 years of Tupac’s murder?
After thirty years of silence and controversies, the trial of Tupac Shakur's murder has begun. The key figure in the prosecution is the defendant himself: Keffe D has been talking about the murder for years, but now he claims that the whole thing was just a made-up story for money.
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Recapping Day One of Tupac Shakur’s Murder Trial
Photo: ZUMA Wire-USA TODAY NETWORK Aug. 18, 2026 ~ Neil Rockind, criminal defense trial attorney at Rockind Law, joins Kevin Dietz to break down the opening statements in the Tupac Shakur murder trial.LAS VEGAS, NEV. ~ Monday kicked off the murder trial of Tupac Shakur, who was killed in a drive-by shooting in 1996, and prosectors named Duane Davis as the supplier of the murder weapon in retaliation for the attack on his nephew earlier …
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