Tupac Shakur’s accused killer was out for ‘revenge’, jury hears
The trial of Duane 'Keffe D' Davis has begun, 30 years after the murder of rapper Tupac Shakur. Prosecutors allege Davis ordered the killing as an act of gang revenge, while the defense claims the case is based on fiction.
Why it matters
This trial addresses one of the most high-profile cold cases in American music history, potentially providing closure to a decades-old mystery.
Rapper Tupac Shakur was shot dead in an act of gang revenge ordered by a mobster who later boasted of it, jurors heard Monday, as one of America’s most anticipated trials got under way , 30 years after the murder.
Duane “Keffe D” Davis, a one-time leader of the South Side Compton Crips, one of a patchwork of gangs that ran parts of Los Angeles in the 1990s, ordered the killing after his nephew had been beaten by a rival mob, prosecutor Binu Pilal told a Las Vegas court.
“On 7 September 1996, Tupac Shakur publicly, on camera, participated in a humiliating beating of Duane Davis’s nephew, Orlando Anderson,” he said.
“Then, two and a half hours later... Tupac is gunned down in a drive-by shooting from a white Cadillac in an act of revenge.”
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