Jessica Hill

Witnesses testified on the opening day of Duane “Keffe D” Davis’s Las Vegas murder trial over Tupac Shakur’s 1996 shooting. Prosecutors allege Davis planned the attack in retaliation for the beating of his nephew Orlando Anderson and cite Davis’s past interviews and memoir as evidence, while acknowledging that he did not pull the trigger. The defence called the prosecution’s case fiction, challenged the quality of the original investigation and highlighted missing documents and alleged police bias. Testimony also covered the shooting scene, Shakur’s final remarks, Marion “Suge” Knight’s police interview and the difficulty investigators faced in securing witnesses. The trial is expected to last about a month, with prosecutors planning to call up to 45 witnesses.