Jury in Tupac Shakur case begins deliberating; prosecutors say Duane Davis went hunting for rapper
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Set us as preferred Jurors began deliberating Monday in the murder trial of Duane “Keffe D” Davis, who is accused of orchestrating the fatal shooting of Tupac Shakur off the Las Vegas Strip nearly 30 years ago.Prosecutors allege Davis, 63, arranged the rapper’s killing by getting a .40-caliber handgun and passing it to fellow members of the Southside Crips-Burris Street gang as they rode in a Cadillac on Sept.7, 1996.
The motive, prosecutors told jurors, was revenge after Shakur, then-Death Row Records mogul Marion “Suge” Knight and members of the Mob Piru gang had beaten Davis’ nephew Orlando Anderson at the MGM Grand hours earlier.“Duane Davis, in the culture of gangs, could not let that stand.He acquired a firearm, got his group together, and went hunting for Mr.
Shakur or Mr.Knight,” Clark County Chief Deputy Dist.
Atty.Binu Palal told jurors.
California The trial of the alleged mastermind behind the killing of famed rapper and actor Tupac Shakur got underway in Las Vegas, with prosecutors alleging the shooting was the culmination of a gang rivalry and fight at the MGM Grand.In closing their case, prosecutors told jurors they had not only heard Davis’ own incriminating words in interviews, but also had been presented with a deluge of circumstantial evidence linking him to one of the most famous murders in modern history.But Anthony Sanft, Davis’ defense lawyer, argued that the prosecution had no forensics, no eyewitness, and not a single shred of physical evidence placing Davis in the Cadillac with the shooter.“The state wants you to believe this was a confession, that he was somehow there in person at the time of the shooting,” Sanft told jurors.“We can’t even put Davis in Las Vegas.”Sanft claimed his client fabricated his story in a 2008 interview with Los Angeles police and federal auth...