Thirty years after one of popular music's most haunting unsolved killings, a Las Vegas courtroom has begun the slow work of rendering justice for Tupac Shakur. Duane Davis, a 63-year-old former gang leader known as 'Keefe D,' stands accused of orchestrating the 1996 drive-by shooting that ended the rapper's life at 25 — a crime allegedly born from a single night's brawl and decades of territorial rivalry. What makes this trial remarkable is not only its long delay, but that the prosecution's case rests substantially on the defendant's own public words, a reminder that the need to be known can
Tupac murder trial begins: Prosecutors allege Duane Davis orchestrated 1996 killing
Tupac Shakur was shot four times and died six days later; Suge Knight suffered a minor wound from a bullet fragment.
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