The murder trial of Duane "Keffe D" Davis, accused of orchestrating the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur, has begun in Las Vegas, with witnesses describing the chaos immediately after the shooting. Davis, a former gang leader, has pleaded not guilty to charges that he planned the attack, though prosecutors say he did not personally fire the fatal shots. The case, which has taken nearly three decades to reach trial, is significant as one of hip-hop's most notorious unsolved crimes finally faces judicial scrutiny.

Prosecutors told the jury that Davis orchestrated the shooting in retaliation for an altercation between Shakur and Davis's nephew, Orlando Anderson, hours before the attack, and pointed to details Davis allegedly revealed in his own 2019 memoir, including a claim that he handed Anderson the murder weapon. Shakur was shot on 7 September 1996 while travelling from a Mike Tyson fight in Las Vegas and died six days later. The defence dismissed the memoir's contents as "fiction" and criticised the police investigation as "biased, sloppy and incomplete", also questioning the reliability of prosecution witnesses. Former police officer Garry Dale testified that Shakur refused to identify his attackers while being taken to hospital by ambulance, and witness Ingrid Stokes also gave evidence about encountering Shakur and Death Row Records' Suge Knight that night.