Ex-gang Leader’s Account of Tupac Shakur Killing Is Fiction, Defense Lawyer in Vegas Says

Published on April 24, 2024

LAS VEGAS—The defense attorney representing a former Los Angeles-area gang leader accused of killing rapper Tupac Shakur in 1996 in Las Vegas said Tuesday his client’s accounts of the killing are fiction and prosecutors lack key evidence to obtain a murder conviction. “He himself is giving different stories,” attorney Carl Arnold told reporters outside a courtroom following a brief status check with his client, Duane “Keffe D” Davis, in front of a Nevada judge. His trial is scheduled for Nov. 4. “We haven’t seen more than just his word,” Arnold said of Davis’ police and media interviews since 2008 in which prosecutors say he incriminated himself in Shakur’s killing—including Davis’ 2019 tell-all memoir of life leading a street gang in Compton, California....

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