Tupac Shakur murder case goes to trial nearly 30 years later
What's next: Jury selection starts Monday in Las Vegas, where prosecutors plan to call 35 to 45 witnesses over about a month.
The only person ever charged in Tupac Shakur’s 1996 killing is set to stand trial in Las Vegas nearly 30 years after the rapper was shot. Jury selection begins Monday for Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 63, who has pleaded not guilty to murder with a deadly weapon in Clark County District Court.
Prosecutors are not accusing Davis of firing the shots. Instead, they contend he organized the attack and provided the gun after Shakur and Marion “Suge” Knight were involved in a fight at the MGM Grand with Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, Davis’ nephew. Shakur was shot on Sept. 7, 1996, while riding in a BMW near the Las Vegas Strip and died six days later. A judge has ruled that Davis’ 2008 police interview and parts of his memoir can be used at trial.