A member of Tupac Shakur's entourage, James "Mob James" McDonald, became combative while testifying on the second day of the murder trial of Duane "Keffe D" Davis, complaining that he had been forced to take the stand and identify those responsible for Shakur's death. McDonald said he had been threatened with contempt of court if he refused to testify, and told the defence directly that he did not want to see Davis imprisoned despite disliking him, highlighting the tension between the courtroom demand for testimony and the street code of silence that has surrounded the case for decades.

Davis, a former leader of the South Side Compton Crips, is charged with murder and accused of orchestrating the drive-by shooting that killed Shakur in Las Vegas on 7 September 1996, allegedly in retaliation for a fight involving his nephew Orlando Anderson. He denies the charges. McDonald, a former Mob Piru gang member and Death Row Records enforcer, was not present at the shooting but was pressed by defence attorney Michael Sanft over what he knew; he grew agitated, telling Sanft his questions "could hurt" Davis and that he did not want to be the one to "send him to prison". The trial, taking place nearly 30 years after Shakur's death, aims to resolve one of America's most high-profile unsolved murders.