Ex-Crips Leader Goes on Trial for Tupac Shakur Killing
TL;DR
Duane 'Keffe D' Davis, a former South Side Compton Crips leader, goes on trial in Las Vegas for the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur, accused of ordering the drive-by and providing the gun; conviction could mean life without parole. The case revives the Death Row–Bad Boy feud context, bolstered by Davis’s memoir that helped thaw new evidence, though Davis maintains innocence. Jury selection begins and the month-long proceedings could reframe decades of speculation, with a related civil lawsuit by Shakur’s family and ongoing questions about who fired the fatal shots.
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- A man is accused of orchestrating Tupac Shakur's 1996 killing is on trial | Here's what to know ABC7 Los Angeles
- Duane Davis, Who Wrote About Role in Tupac’s Murder, Now Says Memoir Was Fiction The New York Times
- Why a murder trial is beginning nearly 30 years after Tupac Shakur’s death The Washington Post
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