Nearly thirty years after a drive-by shooting silenced one of hip-hop's most luminous voices, a Las Vegas courtroom has become the stage for a long-deferred reckoning. Duane 'Keffe D' Davis, 63, now faces a murder conspiracy trial for the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur — a case that lay dormant until Davis's own memoir and media interviews resurrected it from the cold. The trial raises a question as old as justice itself: whether words spoken for profit can become the instrument of accountability, and whether truth delayed is truth denied.
Tupac murder trial opens: Prosecutor alleges revenge motive in 30-year-old case
Tupac Shakur was killed in the 1996 drive-by shooting at age 25, remaining unsolved for nearly three decades until Davis's recent indictment.
Crime & Justice