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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Entertainment
Dani Anguiano and Sam Levin

Tupac Shakur murder trial: gang leader plotted killing to avenge beating of nephew, court hears

a man in a blue and white shirt and wearing a bandana looks straight ahead
Rapper Tupac Shakur after his performance at the Regal Theater in Chicago, Illinois, in March 1994. Photograph: Raymond Boyd/Getty Images

The trial of a former gang leader accused of orchestrating the 1996 killing of rap star Tupac Shakur began in a Las Vegas courtroom on Monday, featuring testimony from a witness to the shooting and a former police officer.

Duane “Keffe D” Davis is on trial for murder for his alleged role in the shooting of Shakur, who died after a drive-by shooting. Prosecutors allege Davis was the “on-the-ground, on-site commander of the effort to kill Tupac” and that he planned the shooting in retaliation for Shakur’s entourage attacking Davis’s nephew.

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