Jury selection is set to open the month-long trial of Duane "Keffe D" Davis, the former South Side Compton Crips leader accused of orchestrating the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur, with selection alone expected to take a week. Davis, 63, has pleaded not guilty and denies any involvement, telling ABC News from prison last year "I'm innocent, I ain't killed nobody" and insisting there is no evidence against him; he faces life imprisonment without parole if convicted. The case reopens one of America's most notorious unsolved murders and revisits the bitter 1990s rivalry between Death Row Records and Bad Boy Records.

Prosecutors allege that after Death Row's Suge Knight and Shakur assaulted Davis's nephew, Crips member Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson, in apparent retaliation for an earlier attack on a Death Row employee, Davis sought revenge by ordering the killing and supplying the gun used in the drive-by shooting that fatally wounded Shakur in Las Vegas on 7 September 1996. The investigation stalled for decades until Davis's 2019 memoir disclosed he had been in the car and passed a pistol to those in the back seat, without naming the shooter; everyone else in the vehicle has since died, and the admissions led to his arrest in September 2023.