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Tape of Tupac Murder Suspect Played in Court
Prosecutors say Davis orchestrated the ambush, and his own published account is a key piece of evidence in the decades-old case.
- Nearly three decades after rapper Tupac Shakur was gunned down on September 7, 1996, Duane 'Keffe D' Davis, 63, now stands trial for his murder. Davis has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
- Prosecutors allege the killing was retaliation for an assault on Orlando Anderson at the MGM Grand following a Mike Tyson fight. They claim Davis orchestrated the ambush from a white Cadillac that pulled alongside Shakur and Marion 'Suge' Knight's BMW.
- Central to prosecutors' case is Davis's 2019 memoir, 'Compton Street Legend,' which they rely on heavily as evidence. Yet Davis now denies involvement, claiming in a recent KLAS jailhouse interview he was not in Las Vegas that night.
- The shooting occurred amid a volatile East Coast-West Coast rap rivalry, intensified by a 1994 ambush at Manhattan's Quad Recording Studios. Shakur believed producer Sean 'Puffy' Combs and Christopher Wallace, known as Notorious B.I.G., had a hand in that incident.
- Shakur's life was defined by a constant thread of mortality he called a 'death chant,' according to stepbrother Mopreme Shakur. For many young Black men of his generation, violence and early death were not abstract fears but a lived, ever-present possibility.
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