LAS VEGAS — A prosecutor said Monday that while few have been willing to speak about the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur , Duane “Keffe D” Davis is the “one person who has a hard time being silent.”
“Let’s be clear, Duane Davis did not pull the trigger. “Remarkably, you will learn that from Duane Davis himself. The defense attorney also pointed to missing documents in the original investigation and distrust between Los Angeles and Las Vegas police departments.
In 2009, he admitted to his role in the killing in an interview with Las Vegas police, Palal said. Garry Dale, a bicycle officer at the time for Las Vegas police who stopped Shakur and Knight, was the first of the 35 to 45 witnesses the prosecution plans to call at the trial expected to last about a month. He pointed out that the Compton Police Department was shut down in September 2000 due to corruption.
But he did plan the shooting in retaliation of the beating of his nephew,” Chief Deputy District Attorney Binu Palal told jurors at the start of Davis’ Las Vegas trial. He also showed jurors the 2019 memoir that Davis co-wrote, “Compton Street Legend,” that the prosecution will use and that the defense fought to keep out of the trial, along with several of the defendant’s interviews.
As prosecutors played audio of Davis explaining the moment Shakur was shot, members of Shakur’s family, including his stepbrother Maurice “Mopreme” Shakur, sat quietly in the audience, staring ahead.
