Jurors heard Duane Davis’ 2008 admission that he was with the men who shot and killed the rapper
Jurors in a Las Vegas court have heard an audio recording of Duane Davis, aka ‘Keffe D’, who is on trial for the murder of US rapper Tupac Shakur, telling detectives that his late nephew Orlando Anderson pulled the trigger.
The hip-hop superstar was shot four times while stopped at a red light in a car with record company executive Suge Knight on the Las Vegas Strip on September 7, 1996. Shakur later succumbed to his wounds.
A tape dated 2008 was presented in Clark County District Court on Thursday and features detectives telling Davis that their discussion is confidential, and that “nothing you say today can be used against you.” The former senior figure in the South Side Compton Crips street gang is heard saying that he was in the car, together with Anderson and two other men, when it pulled up alongside Knight’s vehicle, in which Shakur was riding.
“If we would have been on my side, I would have blasted,” Davis tells the detectives, explaining that the target was, however, on the other side.
