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Tupac Shakur: former gang boss to go on trial nearly 30 years after rapper’s killing
Prosecutors to allege Duane âKeffe Dâ Davis ordered killing and provided gun in Las Vegas drive-by shooting of rapper
The trial is to begin of a former gang leader over the decades-old killing of the rapper Tupac Shakur, one of the most high-profile unsolved murders in the US.
The proceedings, which begin in Las Vegas on Monday and are expected to last a month, are unlikely to make clear who fired the shots that killed the musician on 7 September 1996 while he was in the city to see a Mike Tyson boxing match.
Prosecutors aim to show that Duane âKeffe Dâ Davis, the one-time leader of the South Side Compton Crips, ordered the killing and provided the gun used to kill Shakur in a drive-by shooting. Davis, 63, faces life in prison without parole if convicted.
Who killed Tupac? Three decades later, there may finally be answers
Tupac Shakur, pictured in the 1993 film Poetic Justice, was shot dead in 1996. (Credit: Columbia Pictures)
New details about the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur could be revealed in a murder trial set to begin in Las Vegas today.
Duane "Keffe D" Davis, who police accuse of orchestrating the rap icon's murder, has pleaded not guilty.
The case is one of hip hop's most enduring mysteries and Davis is the only person to have faced charges over Shakur's death.
Before he became one of the most influential rappers of all time, before the movies and the albums that would catapult him to global fame, before he found himself at the centre of a bloody East-West Coast hip hop rivalry, Tupac Shakur was a drama kid at a high school in Baltimore.
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In Tupac murder trial, the defendant is also the prosecution’s star witness
Duane Davis, who goes by the nickname âKeffe D,â wrote a tell-all book in 2019 laying out his role in the fatal shooting of hip-hop legend Tupac Shakur.
The book, âCompton Street Legend,â opens in Las Vegas on the night of September 7, 1996, with a play-by-play account of his plan to confront Tupac and Death Row Records CEO Marion âSugeâ Knight in retaliation for an earlier fight. Davis wrote that he got a gun, hopped in a Cadillac with three others, and drove around looking for the pair. They spotted Tupac in a car and then pulled up next to it, he wrote.
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