The trial of former gang leader Duane "Keffe D" Davis, accused of orchestrating rapper Tupac Shakur's 1996 murder in Las Vegas, wrapped its first week with the jury hearing a decades-old police recording described as amounting to a confession, alongside renewed testimony reviving the long-running theory that Sean "Diddy" Combs paid for the killing. The proceedings matter both as a long-delayed reckoning for one of hip-hop's most notorious unsolved crimes and because they thrust the persistent, unproven Combs conspiracy theory back into public view amid his ongoing separate legal troubles.

Davis faces a single murder charge with a deadly weapon over the drive-by shooting that killed Shakur and wounded Death Row Records' Suge Knight on 7 September 1996; prosecutors say Davis's nephew, Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson, fired the fatal shot from a rented Cadillac. In taped police audio played to jurors, Davis described renting the car and detailed the shooting, reportedly to avoid unrelated drug charges. Separately, LAPD Detective Daryn Dupree testified that Davis had claimed Combs offered $1 million for the deaths of Shakur and Knight, and that Davis was later used as a confidential informant to probe the claim, though the lead ultimately went nowhere. Combs has consistently denied any involvement and has never been charged over Shakur's death.