Tupac Shakur murder trial begins 30 years after rapper’s death
Duane Davis arrives for the first day of jury selection in his murder trial related to the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur at Clark County District Courts Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, on August 10, 2026.
In the run-up to the trial, Davis’s lawyers tried in vain to keep the book from being introduced as evidence, along with remarks he made in an interview with police in 2008 as a witness to the killing.
But prosecutors aim to show that the defendant, Duane “Keffe D” Davis, onetime leader of the South Side Compton Crips, ordered the killing and provided the gun used to kill Shakur in a drive-by shooting.
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