Overview
- Jurors in Clark County have been seated and witnesses are testifying in the trial of Duane “Keffe D” Davis, who faces life if convicted of orchestrating the 1996 drive‑by that killed Tupac Shakur.
- Former LAPD detective Daryn Dupree told jurors that Davis, in a 2008 recorded interview, said he was inside the white Cadillac, handed a gun to a backseat occupant and identified Orlando Anderson as the shooter.
- A retired FBI agent, Wade Lee, recounted a 1998 proffer in which Davis denied involvement and floated an alternate theory pointing to Compton officers connected to Death Row, showing how Davis’s accounts changed over time.
- Prosecutors told the court they will present roughly five hours of video as evidence and have admitted Davis’s 2008 recorded interview and passages from his 2019 memoir to support their theory that he organized or supplied the weapon.
- Key witnesses have been reluctant or combative: James McDonald said he would not name suspects to send Davis to prison, and Suge Knight from prison publicly disputed McDonald’s claim that he worked for Death Row, while the county medical examiner confirmed Tupac died from chest and abdominal gunshot wounds.