Ex-Compton detective says the proof of who killed Tupac Shakur is in the gang war that followed
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Set us as preferred A former Compton gang homicide detective testified Tuesday in the trial of Duane “Keffe D” Davis that he had “no doubt” that the gang Davis led was behind the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur because of the bloody gang war that followed.Shakur was riding with Death Row Records mogul Marion “Suge” Knight on Sept.7, 1996, just off the Vegas Strip.
Death Row is a label strongly associated with the Mob Pirus gang.Prosecutors say Davis led Southside Crips-Burris Street.
He is accused of being in the Cadillac that pulled up alongside Shakur’s car and handing the gun to two men in the back seat, one of whom was his nephew, who fired the fatal shots.“The Mob Pirus had to retaliate” after Shakur was killed, testified retired Compton Police Det.Robert Ladd at the Las Vegas trial.
“They had 54 other gangs to choose from.But they went right after the Southside Crips.
So there is no doubt in my mind who was responsible for shooting Tupac.”Ladd, testifying on on the seventh day of the trial, said that two days after Shakur’s shooting, a leader of a local Crips gang — as well as a 10-year-old girl — were hit in a drive-by shooting.“We had three murders and 10 attempted murders,” he said, “drive-by shootings that happened within 10 days in Compton ...back and forth related to the Mob Pirus and Southside Crips.”Law enforcement agencies knew it was coming, he said.
Within hours of the Shakur shooting, his then-boss, Compton Police Lt.Reggie Wright Sr., warned that Southside Crips were behind the killing and there was going to be a war.
Ladd said, seeking to curtail the violence, Compton police began serving numerous search warrants and developing information for the Las Vegas police on Shakur’s fatal shooting,He said Compton detectives searched 38 homes and apartments in Compton, Long Be...