(Los Angeles) The former gang leader charged with murder in the investigation into the 27-year-old killing of hip-hop star Tupac Shakur appeared again Thursday in a Las Vegas court.
Duane Davis, known as “Keefe D”, 60, was charged last month in the murder investigation although he was not the one to hold the weapon during the crime in the game town on September 7, 1996.
Thursday’s hearing was supposed to be devoted to the indictment of the suspect who should have pleaded guilty or not guilty. But his lawyer, Ross Goodman, called for a dismissal, arguing that he had not been hired by his client in due form.
“I’m going to give you two weeks, but in two weeks it has to move forward,” Judge Tierra Jones said.
The former leader of the South Side Compton Crips, a Los Angeles gang, has long admitted to being in the white Cadillac from which the four bullets were fired that killed Tupac Shakur at the age of 25.
He boasted of having been on the scene as the “commander” of the operation aimed at taking down Tupac as well as the head of the Death Row Records label, Marion Knight, known as “Suge”, in retaliation for an attack on his nephew.
But he argued that the shots were fired from the rear of the vehicle while he was in the front.
Under Nevada law, however, anyone who abets and participates in the commission of a murder can be charged with the murder in question in the same way that the driver of a vehicle used by bank robbers can be charged with robbery. .
Tupac Shakur, known for hits Dear Mama, California Love Or Changeswas a huge star in the rap world at the time of his passing.
He was part of Death Row Records, a record company associated at the time with the Los Angeles gang Mob Piru, who had been at war for a long time with Duane Davis’ South Side Compton Crips.
Prosecutors said last month that the prosecution had long suspected he was involved in the murder, but did not have enough evidence to charge him. Things began to unravel when Davis, who according to media reports is the only person still alive among those in the Cadillac on the fateful date, published an autobiography and discussed the murder on television.