Tupac Shakur murder suspect recounts moments before 1996 shooting in audio played to jury
Jurors in the murder trial of Duane 'Keffe D' Davis heard a 2008 audio recording where he admits to orchestrating the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur. Davis claims his nephew, Orlando Anderson, fired the fatal shots after a confrontation in Las Vegas.
Why it matters
This provides a significant development in one of the most famous cold cases in hip-hop history, potentially bringing closure to the decades-old murder of a cultural icon.
Jurors on Thursday heard Duane "Keffe D" Davis tell detectives in 2008 that his nephew Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson fired the shots that killed Tupac Shakur. Davis, who said in the interview he was also in the car with Anderson, is accused of orchestrating the 1996 killing of the 25-year-old hip-hop superstar in Las Vegas. At the time of the interview, his nephew had been dead for a decade. Davis said the white Cadillac he and Anderson were riding in with two other men pulled up alongside a car with Shakur inside, along with hip-hop mogul and Death Row Records head Marion "Suge" Knight. "If we would have been on my side, I would have blasted," Davis said. Instead, Knight's car was on the other side, so Davis passed his gun back to Deandre "Big Dre" Smith. But Smith didn't want it, Davis said.
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