Trial Begins in Tupac Shakur's 1996 Murder Case
The long-awaited trial has begun in the 1996 fatal shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas. The case involves a targeted ambush that also affected a Microsoft manager driving home with his daughter.
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Long-awaited trial begins in rapper Tupac Shakur’s 1996 Las Vegas killing
Rapper Tupac Shakur was shot dead in an act of gang revenge ordered by a mobster who later boasted of it, jurors heard on Monday, as one of America’s most anticipated trials got under way, 30 years after the murder. Duane “Keffe D” Davis, a one-time leader of the South Side Compton Crips, one of a patchwork of gangs that ran parts of Los Angeles in the 1990s, ordered the killing after his nephew had been beaten by a rival mob, prosecutor Binu Pilal told a Las Vegas court. “On September 7, 199...
By Agence France-Presse
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By Ed White
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