Tupac Shakur murder trial: prosecutors allege Duane Davis plotted killing to avenge nephew

Shakur’s entourage was filmed beating Orlando ‘Baby Lane’ Anderson, Davis’s nephew, in September 1996

What we know about Tupac Shakur’s death

The trial of a former gang leader accused of orchestrating the 1996 killing of rap star Tupac Shakur began in a Las Vegas courtroom on Monday, featuring testimony from a witness to the shooting and a former police officer.

Duane “Keffe D” Davis is on trial for murder for his alleged role in the shooting of Shakur, who died after a drive-by shooting. Prosecutors allege Davis was the “on-the-ground, on-site commander of the effort to kill Tupac” and that he planned the shooting in retaliation for Shakur’s entourage attacking Davis’s nephew.