Tupac Shakur murder trial opens as prosecutors say 'Keffe D' ordered 1996 killing

The murder trial for Tupac Shakur's 1996 killing began with prosecutors claiming that Duane "Keffe D" Davis masterminded the shooting. Almost three decades later, the case opened with Chief Deputy District Attorney Binu Palal stating that Davis did not pull the trigger, but he did plan the act of revenge. Davis, once a leader of the South Side Compton Crips gang, faces a murder charge using a deadly weapon in Clark County, Nevada.

Palal presented videos of Shakur's crew attacking Anderson, who was his nephew, before Shakur was shot in a drive-by from a white Cadillac. Davis claimed to have been in the car with Shakur during the shooting, stating that he handed a gun to the men in the backseat. However, defense attorney Michael Sanft dismissed the prosecution's narrative as fiction, calling the investigation biased, sloppy, and incomplete.

If convicted, Davis could face life imprisonment without parole. The trial, expected to last up to six weeks, is ongoing in Las Vegas.