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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Entertainment
Lois Beckett

Tupac Shakur trial: lawyers share full account of killing as witnesses still refuse to testify

Man in flannel shirt sits in witness box, his hands over his chest and speaking, with blurry back of head in foreground.
James McDonald is cross-examined by defense attorney Michael Sanft during the murder trial of Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis in Las Vegas on Tuesday. Photograph: John Locher/Reuters

For nearly 30 years, the unsolved murder of 25-year-old rapper Tupac Shakur has sparked lawsuits, theories and conspiracies.

Now, decades after his death in a September 1996 drive-by shooting in Las Vegas, local prosecutors are finally offering a detailed official account of Shakur’s killing, accusing Duane “Keffe D” Davis, a 63-year-old former South Side Compton Crips gang leader, of being the “on-the-ground, on-site commander of the effort to kill Tupac”.

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